There’s an online message board I spend a fair amount of time on. Some of the other users have very clever and interesting handles/screen names/whatever you call them. My favorite nom de forum is one I read for several years as “Expano Mapcase.” It made no sense to me; I just liked the way it [...]
It’s about words — especially words that mean something other than what you think they mean. I’ve already written about this once, but this weekend’s example is more important than Japanese food. I’m kidding. Nothing is more important than good Japanese food. Except maybe good Indian food. But I’ll admit, the development and survival of [...]
I’ve been worried lately, what with being a responsible husband and father, that my nerd credentials have been slipping. I haven’t discussed Star Trek or comic books with anyone in years. (I did try to explain to someone this summer that I didn’t want to see Rise of the Planet of the Apes because it [...]
This past Thanksgiving week— OK, I promise this will be the last post prompted by something that happened at Thanksgiving, mostly because I’m going on vacation after this. Not a real vacation; just a vacation from the blog—a blogcation, if I may. Don’t worry, I’ll be back in the new year. (OK, maybe you should [...]
We’re nearly a week into December, but I’m still spewing Thanksgiving-prompted ideas out here. What can I say? There just aren’t that many ideas to be had, and you people aren’t helping by making suggestions the way you should. This one, though, seemed to be a sign from above, if there were such things. Not [...]
It happened to me again today (that’s today as I’m writing this, not today as I’m posting it). It’s been happening to me fairly regularly since I was seventeen years old. (No, not that. Get your mind out of the gutter.)
Ever since I left home to go to college, back during the Truman administration, the pattern has been the same. Someone says, “Where are you from?” (Now that I’m in my dotage, the question is more likely to be, “Where did you grow up?”) I say, “Long Island.” And the other person responds, “Oh, you mean Lawn Guyland,” to which I reply, “I didn’t say that.”
