Yesterday, at about 2:30 in the afternoon, someone or something destroyed the water main that feeds my neighborhood. My psyche working the way it does, the instant I heard this news I went from feeling fresh, air conditioned, and comfortable to instantly feeling like the sweatiest, filthiest non-Hilton who ever lived. No condition changed except […]
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Ten years ago today, I had been out of college for about six weeks. I had taken four years that were supposed to be about a)intensive study in my chosen field or b) intensive care after partying four nights a week and chosen c) “neither,” devoting the bulk of my time to student quasi-government and […]
hey!
I just had a bunch of friends come into town, several weeks in a row, and I have a lot of comments about that!
Okay, sassypants! Say those comments immdiately!
Umm… no. Sorry! Later.
Nine years ago (!!!) my friends and I went to see the X-Files movie on opening night. As is the case a good 75% of the time, I can remember where I saw the movie, who I was with, and what my life was like that night, but I have no memory of what happened […]
They’re cutting off all my escape routes!
It’s not just an aversion to change. It’s not. Everything was fine the way it was.
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When I was a young man, my dentist expressed concern that I seemed to be grinding my teeth while I slept. I had no way of knowing whether or not this was actually happening (you see, I was asleep) but as a kid who put a lot of stress on his own shoulders I found […]
half of this page is in the teeny-tiniest font I’ve ever seen. Maybe its me.
And by teeny-tiniest, I mean invisible.
I have to be honest: I saw this comment, didn’t see anything like this in my own browser, and blew the comment off. For whatever reason, Firefox is immune to whatever voodoo incantation was affecting […]
While I certainly appreciate the Secretaries of Defense and Labor and All That, I do sometimes wish there was a Department of Just Making Life Better, and that it was a cabinet level position, and that the Secretary was me.
It’s not all about me, technically, but I do think this: as many as seven of […]
Men prepare a meal for enjoyment, and wine makes life merry, and money is the answer to everything.
-Ecclesiastes 10:19
So, how much have you missed me? Don’t be coy.
Watching it many years later on HBO, you would be amazed at the point in Attack of the Clones when there’s still a full hour left. The part I think of as the “big finish” is actually the last half of the movie.
I have more meaningful stuff to write about than this.
Dangerous doctor; medically incompetent; scientifically unsound methods.
Why “quack”?
I mean, a lot of animals make a lot of sounds. Few of them health-related.
Did this start out as some weird “doc”/”duck” pun?
Last night, I was at the grocery store taking advantage of ten unscheduled minutes. Three or four people in front of me in the checkout lane, a blonde woman roughly my age or younger, looking like a child of privilege or sorority type, was loudly talking on her cell phone while the bagger dispensed with […]
County Exec “My Name Was Not Actually Buzz” Westfall, devoted public servant, died the other day of a staph infection, which went undetected because he was already on pain pills.
Hey, kids! Prescription drugs: Yay!!!
(I am a pragmatist. Still, sometimes, I think a heavily customized Christian Science might be for me.)
Idiocy du jour:
Speculation about how […]
Seriously, now… forget your Matrices and your Keanus for a moment, and let’s talk about something that is really important.
Chuck Berry is going to die.
Seriously. Chuck Berry is approximately 148 years old. (Or 77.) He is a dyed-in-the-wool St. Louis native. He was the very, very first person to be inducted to the rock ‘n’ […]
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Clayton - Shady Oak Theater - as the story goes, a man killed himself on the grounds before the theater was built. Film has been seen un-winding while sitting on the shelf the lobby speaker has shot off its hook only to be found 15 ft away in the middle of the floor. […]
I thinkthis article pretty much speaks for itself, but I’m going to summarize it anyway as a way to wrap my head around it.
It seems the “Reverend” Fred Phelps (if you don’t knowwho he is, you’re missing out on the best free ride on the crazy train ever, though I hastily advise you not to […]
“We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they are directed toward that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was 10 years ago when we began it. And frankly they have worked. [\Saddam Hussein]\ has not developed any significant capability with […]
Happiest of happy somewhat-belated birthdays to ken. if you see ken this week, try to be nice to him.
Scientists at the FDA, working with the American legal community, have inventedthe 49-page menu.
Attention!
Anyone within sight of this who may know me:
If something unfortunate should ever happen to me (bus accident, massive stroke, drug overdose, well-timed meteor) and I end up within ten miles of a persistent vegetative state, I order you to pull each and every plug as fast as you can. And I mean, I want […]
When I read the text at the link below, the person I feel the worst for is the guy who transcribed it. Imagine having to decide where the new paragraphs were supposed to begin.
Regular, off-the-shelf computer video games are an effective method of treating people’s fears, using a style of therapy that exposes people to what scares them in a controlled setting, according to a new study released on Friday.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/10/17/videogame.phobias.reut/index.html
Only I have ever wondered this, but just in case anyone is interested: the infamous failure of public housing that wasPruitt-Igoe was named after anti-WWI legislator William Igoe and a WWII flying ace/Tuskegee Airman namedWendell Oliver Pruitt. What these two people have to do with the neighborhood and/or one another, I can only guess. But […]
WASHINGTON - Concerned about the appearance of disarray and feuding within his administration as well as growing resistance to his policies in Iraq, President Bush - living up to his recent declaration that he is in charge - told his top officials to “stop the leaks” to the media, or else.
News of Bush’s order leaked […]
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As you may know, here in Tha Lou members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 655 have been on strike for the last week. As a result, Schnucks, Dierbergs, and Shop ‘n’ Save ‘n’ Then Bag Your Own Groceries ‘n’ Pay To Do It have all been ground to a near standstill, […]