I had the privilege last night of meeting several practitioners of the Baha’i faith. Let me tell you, it was most interesting. My family background of civic service and construction not withstanding, the video of the construction of their shrine on Mount Carmel in Haifa was very interesting. But the more interesting facet of my…
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I learned from Rocky Horror. That’s right. Everything anyone needs to know about life can be learned from watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I guess it’s because I find that there are three major life lessons you have to learn as you grow up, and all three are contained within the scenes of this…
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I’m bowled over every time I get an email offering to increase the size of body parts with a miracle pill. Mind you, I already knew that if I wished to grow breasts I could do so — oddly enough by taking a pill. Unfortunately for the spammers, I know that those are not the…
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And five other reasons I’m utterly failing on my New Year’s Resolutions… Okay, so not really. Writing six reasons why I’m failing at my New Year’s resolutions would be pointless, right? So instead, we’ll talk about work and happiness and gratitude. In that order. Or maybe not. Maybe we’ll talk about kitty cats and how…
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It is important, in this the new year, to lay out a series of precepts that the entire world across which I recreate myself should operate. Ironically enough, they all boil down to the following maxim: Doing the same thing expecting different results is, quite frankly, insane. (I think Einstein said this first.) Where this…
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I won’t name names of a certain giant retail conglomerate that has a reputation for entering small towns (and several rather large ones) and driving out competition by undercutting prices. I’m not complaining about that — after all, competition is the name of the business. However, I will complain about something else. When you wait…
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HAPPY FUCKING NEW YEAR!! Now that we have that out of the way, let me be very clear: 2003 was a year. 2004 is a year. Nothing of massive note happened in 2003. I mean in a hundred years, to hear about the year 2003, you’ll have to take a 400 level history course at…
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Sorry I’ve not posted in a few days. Things are happening right now that have me kind of blocked, writing wise. So please just hang loose and I’ll return shortly. I promise. md
…is so much easier with a chainsaw. The branches just peel away and fall off with no trouble at all. Of course you’ve figured out by now (or God I hope you have) that I refer not to decorating a Christmas Tree but rather the titanic oak in the front yard. What would have taken…
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…I’ve begun a new project in my next few days off, one that I hope will brighten my mood, if not my kitchen. I’m painting it. Yay, me. Right here at the Christmas Season (or Chanukah, Ramadan, or Chinese New Year as the case may be), it never amazes me the crassness of people. Pushing,…
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