No, No, No

America, I tried to watch the American Experience on PBS tonight, because it was about Walt Whitman and I love me some Walt Whitman.
But it sucked.  I don’t know.  Maybe I just kept flipping over to the sucky parts, but here’s Whitman, who is this eccentric genius, but also kind of a smelly, annoying self-promoter, [...]

A Post that Ends Up Not Being in Praise of Stubble

I wanted to write a post about stubble, about how I like to rub my fingers across a stubbly cheek and how I sometimes let the legs go a little longer between shavings than I should because I like the prickle and I was going to write an ode to how much I like the [...]

Don’t Try This at Home, Folks

America, I think I told you about this once, a million years ago, and bemoaned the fact that, though there was a picture of it, it had been lost to time.
No more.
One of the Butcher’s friends found a copy and sent it to him and he sent it to me.
I’m posting it because it’s the [...]

A Couple of Quick Things While My Internet is Working

–Considering what a piss-poor job AT&T does of keeping the internet flowing to my house, I don’t think Comcast has to worry about losing me as a cable customer.  If I had TV as infrequently as I have my internet connection, I might pass out.
–Guess which Flying Spaghetti Monster got a shout out in Rolling [...]