Category Archives: Reality is a Harsh Mistress

Life is good. You work yet another in an interminable series of 12+ hour days. You get a sandwich for a late night dinner. You plan the annual tribute to the 142d anniversary of the demise of the Southern Confederacy. … Continue reading →

I was slumming last night: drinking PBR on the roof and staring out towards the backside of the old protty church northwards across the alley. As I stood there musing on the bent lightning rod atop the church cupola I … Continue reading →

Irish dance may be a migraine set to music, and Irish cuisine is banned by international treaty from Guantanamo Bay. But when an Irishman orders a drink, my first instinct is to call out “For two – and make mine … Continue reading →

I am a failed physicist. I couldn’t do an integer to save my life – so much for three years of higher mathematics. But I can still celebrate Pi day. And so can you. I think today, today I will … Continue reading →

Once again, it promises to be a year of weddings and funerals. Just this week my landlord and John Vukovich died. And I have a wedding invitation to reply to. On my Mom’s tombstone we inscribed the words, “Be Good … Continue reading →