also of note:
To Beat Cobra, We Must Think Like Cobra
Monthly Archive September 2008
I stared at the e-mail at the bottom of the list for another ten seconds. I had read and/or replied to everything else, even the bank statement, and that last message had been sitting there every day for a week unread. Occasionally during that week, I had accidentally highlighted the “Subject:” line, and each time […]
Another one off the request lines. You want the Gay Dude, I give you the Gay Dude:
November 21, 1998
These last few days, I’ve been thinking a lot about something that happened this summer outside the tenement where I live. I realize that I don’t talk about my apartment or my neighbors very much. That isn’t […]
Somebody in the comments reminded me about the Flour Baby Story. You ask about the Flour Baby, you get the Flour Baby. I’ve been meaning to take another look at this one anyway… and, whaddya know?, I don’t like the way I wrote nine years ago. But that doesn’t mean you won’t!
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Dial-An-Anecdote
November 20, 1999
When I […]
As hard as it would one day be to believe, my parents began their lives together as optimists, even though everyone they loved literally ran from their wedding screaming. I am the least superstitious person on earth, and even I might have taken that as some kind of omen.
When Mom and Dad met at the […]