• Quick Notes

    Feeling better today, although it was a busy Tuesday and Wednesday morning has me at St. P’s for my library duty. Thus, I’m going to try to breeze through some stuff before I get too far behind. Marcus Smart A buddy of mine has said all year that he found Smart scary. Not in a threatening way, but rather, well,…

  • Lost Month

    As I write this, I’m sitting in the living room, looking out the front window, waiting for the next snowstorm to hit. The first flurries are expected to start falling in the next hour, and by morning we’ll have 8-10” of new snow. Yeah, I’m about done with this winter bullshit. What a waste of a month January was. St.…

  • Boomed

    I’ve come up with a phrase or two over my ten years of publishing my thoughts online that I particularly enjoy. One of those is “comprehensive ass-kicking,” used to describe, well, comprehensive ass-kickings. I’m pretty sure the Super Bowl is the classic example of one. Man, that was ugly. I missed the opening 12 seconds, as we were hosting friends…

  • January Books

    Four books in four weeks to kick off the year. But one of those was a children’s book I knocked out in an afternoon, so I’m feeling like I didn’t take advantage of January the way I should have. Also, I’m skipping one book, just because I’m still thinking about how to write about it. It’s the first time I’ve…