My family informs me that they don’t much like my Turkey Loaf. As a matter of fact the exact quote was “It tastes like leftovers just before you pitch them in the garbage.” Thanks guys. Now you know why I’m in Therapy. As it turns out what they object to is the concept of Ground …
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Nov 20 2018
Turkeys Away
“Oh the Humanity!” Did you watch the whole episode? How could you possibly think this was a good idea? Tossing a Bird That Does Not Fly Out of a Plane by Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic 11/20/18 Here in Yellville this cold and rainy weekend, there are turkeys everywhere—turkey shirts and turkey costumes and turkey paraphernalia. …
Nov 13 2018
One Night In Bangkok
Ok, so Chess is a sport in the same way that motor racing is a sport which is to say that while it has some athletic subtleties (hey, this maximus gluteus didn’t happen by accident, it took years and years of joystick work to develop these sitz skills) it doesn’t depend on physical ability as …
May 19 2018
Triple Crown: The Middle Child
This is the most racist theme song of the Triple Crown- Maryland, My Maryland The despot’s heel is on thy shore, Maryland! His torch is at thy temple door, Maryland! Avenge the patriotic gore That flecked the streets of Baltimore, And be the battle queen of yore, Maryland! My Maryland! Hark to an exiled son’s …
May 13 2018
Happy Mother’s Day
A DocuDharma tradition now on The Stars Hollow Gazette. I tease my mother by calling her Emily after Emily Gilmore both because overall my family reminds me very much of the Gilmores and because she’s never met a brand name she didn’t like whereas I’m perfectly content to buy generic. I thank her among many …
May 05 2018
The Longest 2 Minutes In Sports
This was no ordinary homecoming. This was a do-or-die attempt to lay the ghost of years of rejection from the horse-rearing elite and the literati who sat in those privileged boxes overlooking the track and those unprivileged craven hordes who grovelled around the centre-field where he had suffered as a boy. The clubhouse as …
May 05 2018
Cinco de Mayo
Reprinted from 5/5/2012 The name simply means “The Fifth of May” and it’s an oddly U.S. American holiday. Except in the State of Puebla they don’t much celebrate the victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in Mexico which makes it much more like Patriot’s Day that we here in New England get …
May 01 2018
Allez le Barricades!
The Internationale Arise ye workers from your slumbers Arise ye prisoners of want For reason in revolt now thunders And at last ends the age of cant. Away with all your superstitions Servile masses arise, arise We’ll change henceforth the old tradition And spurn the dust to win the prize. So comrades, come rally And …
Apr 01 2018
April? Already?
Once upon a time April Fools used to be fun but now it’s just a bunch of brands trying to seem cool with a bunch of boring ass obvious lies. And, because it’s Easter. Christianity is a myth designed to prop up Roman Imperial State control just like the cults of Mithras and Sol …
Mar 29 2018
Naturally Dyed Eggs
NATURALLY DYED EGGS Now with updates! Natural Easter Egg Dyes In the Gilmore house there is no surer sign of Easter than onion skin boiled eggs. I like them much more than the traditional store kit dyed kind because they have a subtle onion scent that lingers even after you peel them. In fact sometimes …
Feb 14 2018
My Las Vegas Convention- A Happy Story
(originally in orange Sat Jun 17, 2006 at 07:01 PM PDT) I repeat it annually because there are lessons I don’t want to forget. Can you handle the truth? How about a good story? If you are a regular reader you may know that I was State Co-ordinator of my meatspace club. You may not …
Feb 02 2018
Groundhog Day
What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered? That about sums it up for me. Ned? Ned Ryerson?! You like boats, but not the ocean. You go to a lake in summer with your family up in the mountains. …