Archive for June, 2005
Comcast Sends Chunky Whores
Dear Comcast: I appreciate that you are my only solution to getting high-speed access, but I don’t have to like it. It is not by choice that I have finally selected you to give me high-speed internet access. I was perfectly happy with having BellSouth offer me high-speed DSL. Unfortunately, the phone wiring in my [...]
Read More..>>No, really. I don’t want any bugs.
I wish I didn’t hate bugs. I wish they didn’t bother me. I mean, they bother me less than they bother plenty of other people — I’ve been known to stomp down on a cockroach with my shiny high heel in the middle of a New Orleans bar and then grab a napkin and swab [...]
Read More..>>Vroom Vroom
I am now the proud owner of a Honda Civic 4-door sedan in the color of Fuji Blue. That’s right. Fuji Blue. And his name is Smacky. You heard me. Smacky. Smacky is smart and cute and goes speedy speedy around corners. Smacky is also $300 a month in financing payments and $124 a month [...]
Read More..>>Book ‘Em, Dano
It would appear that the lovely people at BenBella Books have actually seen fit to include not one but TWO essays of mine in two different books of theirs. I owe them my undying gratitude (and, probably, a fifsky to cover the cost of editing my somewhat rambling prose — thanks Leah and all the [...]
Read More..>>You be buggin’
I have killed my first palmetto bug. I’m sure it won’t be my last. I was putting together my office TV and the Playstation so I can watch DVDs while I work and I picked up one of the components which, by the way, was just sitting on a shelf, so I have no idea [...]
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