From the category archives:

hilarity

Please.

December 18, 2011

My typical answer to “what do you do?” sometimes invites a metric tonne of questions that I do not feel like answering. I have learned to say “Internet marketing.” in a tone that does a pretty good job of closing the topic. But today I have stumbled upon a better answer. Please.

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bad gossip LOLz

October 30, 2011

Jack surprised us all when he showed us this video he made using animation software from the web. It had us all L-ing OL at the understated yuks. I with I could make videos that funny.

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a mourning dove landed on my head in the garden today

October 5, 2011

I want to reassure you that I am a material man, that my first impulse is not to think metaphysically about these kinds of things. But dudes I am telling you it was awfully hard to avert my thoughts from the possibility that the universe was trying to tell say something to me here. Or [...]

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the seven signs that my platteville WI hotel is maybe a little ghetto

July 23, 2011

1. The mound view of the Mound View Inn has been obscured by a Wal Mart. 2. Entry to the room is gained via metal key. Not even a big, blocky, old-school-but-still-of-this-generation-albeit-pre-plastic-swipey hotel key, but a regular old toothy key, a just-like-my-house-key key. 3. The dead bolt can’t be turned from the outside. Only just [...]

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this about sums up my curmudgeonly attitude toward the internet

October 31, 2010

In closing, I would like to say that the Internet has become a veritable buzzing, stinging hornet’s nest of pings and pongs and klings and klangs, so please do not e-mail, text-message, instant-message, direct-message, Facebook-message (if you’re still on MySpace or Friendster, that’s just plain creepy), Facebook-chat, iChat, tweet, retweet (don’t even mention Twitter mentions), [...]

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