In 1974, long before his beknightment, a few years after the successful conclusion of his career as Bond, James Bond, Sean Connery was having a hard time finding work. The Bond movies were lucrative, to be sure, but hardly artistic. Hee wanted to break into more serious work but was stopped at every turn by [...]
I walked to my car this morning and discovered a t-bone on my windshield. I’ve had egg, bird shit, and bug innards on my car before, but the t-bone thing, now, that’s a new one. I don’t know whether it was steak or pork; the meat had been mostly chewed off. It had been meticulously [...]
The boy and I have, for the past week and a half since we’ve been back in Larryville, have dragged ourselves out of bed in the AM to go to the gym. It’s been a bit rough, especially since Nature remembered that it’s wintertime again and that it’s actually supposed to be cold now, and [...]
In a slightly ironic reflection of real world happenings, the Finance department is buying out our office. I didn’t even know you could do inter-departmental forced relocations in what is supposedly an institute of learning, but, as my boss explained to me, they have the money and we don’t. So we’ve got to get to [...]
