A few days ago I tossed off a rather unremarkable post called “Self-Hating Honkies and the War on Easter“. Not much to it, really. In the post, I linked Stacy McCain, who gave me a shout-out on Twitter, as befits a gentleman and scholar. Well, if ‘Islamophobia’ is racist, why isn’t anti-Easter-Bunnyism racist, too? andrewjpatrick.com/2013/03/27/sel…… Read More My Interactions with @REALBROTHER0003 and the Banality of Twitter
I thought I’d poke my head up and remind myself and a few others that I am not, in fact, dead (although signing off with a quotation from the Inferno last week did push the morbidity. It was on my mind). It’s just that time of year, and I’ve just got no time to even… Read More St. Patrick Knows Us Not.
Having been charged with the sole care of Darling Daughter whilst Wifey is compounding tech week and Opening Night into one day for a one-minute play festival, I resolved to get us both out into the sunshine. Daughter was game, despite describing the environs as “co” (cold) when we finally ventured out. We lasted but… Read More How the Weather Induced Me to Learn About the Bauhaus Movement
Every technological advance contains cost; functionality does not always transfer. Some time over the holidays, after wrestling with Verizon FiOS, I finally pulled the plug on the cable. Verizon still provides my internet and phone, but I watch TV on the Roku box. Between Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Amazon Prime Instant Video, I had everything… Read More How Facebook Saved the Superbowl
Dear sweet merciful God, but I am tired of the periodic Rebellion of the Childless. I never failed to find their screeds juvenile, even before I became a father. Now that I am one, I have less time to care. So I’ll take No One of Any Import’s summation of this year’s Barren-and-Loving-It boomlet as accurate,… Read More Yes, Your Childlessness is a Valid Choice. Have You Considered Shutting Up About It?
My Birthday came and went, as birthdays are wont to do. My most exciting gift I expected least; a shiny new iPhone 4. Why the 4? Because it was free with my Verizon upgrade. And when the 6 comes out, maybe I’ll get the 5. I am well content to follow in the slipstream of… Read More Exciting Toys and Tumblr Follies
I set the day aside to finally restore the house to it’s pre-Sandy condition; un-batten the hatches if you will. I had a list made over breakfast: put the deck furniture back, plug in everything in the basement, get my office computer back on, hit the dump, hit the hardware store, and then possibly set… Read More Hello, Autumn. Nice to See You Again.
I lost power for 24 hours, then I got it back. No flooding, save for a trickle that made it into my fusebox and shorted out my smoke detectors, which has since been remedied. Nora even got to have a Halloween. So there’s no way I’m going to bemoan my fate, when New York City… Read More Why I’m Not Blogging About Sandy or the Election
Last year, with Irene glowering down on us and a baby on the way, I went into a kind of proto-daddy super-protective fury: buying up pallets of bottled water, jerky, batteries, etc. Now, I’ve got Sandy about to give a big kiss to a blizzard/Nor’Easter. Gah. I don’t want to freak, but when the local… Read More Hurricane Sandy is About to Ruin My Weekend. Even if Nothing Happens
I ranted a few weeks ago as to how tired I was with Cable TV. However, Bill Inertia is a powerful force, especially When you don’t know if you’re paying forward or back, so I didn’t get around to actually calling Verizon until yesterday. Being one of those poor fools who got bundled, I wanted… Read More Verizon FiOS Doesn’t Hate My Business. They’re Just Not That Into It.
