To the boys’ delight, we had candid discussions about the effects of lactose intolerance and food poisoning. As I ate my flower power sorbet, I had visions of Scott and Jeremy getting shanked in the Tenderloin. I hoped our evening would end without a trip to the ER. I kept my morbid...
There has always been disagreement on these American shores as to just what the “best” English is. The status of Parisian French or Tuscan Italian has long been unassailable. Yet in the early 1940s, fusty Chicagoans were writing to The Chicago Tribune declaring Midwestern speech America’s “...
To my dismay (and my mom’s delight), my trip got cut a bit short. An obligatory networking conference in Los Angles for school is taking the place of Ecuador and Colombia. So anyway, Peru was my last real stop on Around-the-World Part II. And now Los Angeles is my final stopover...
I have a friend who lives in an apartment building. The building allows dogs but you must submit a DNA sample for your dog in order to live there. It’s so when errant poop is left outside, they send the sample out to the lab tocontact traceit back to you. Then you are fined. ...
and if the neighbor seemed the least bit dubious, we'd only have to open the door and go back inside, neighbor by our sides, to cue Brandy's bark-howls of ecstacy. We'd be twenty feet away and she'd still be howling like an air raid siren and about to wet herself with delight....
The stairways were a delight The ceilings were non-stop jaw dropping beautiful * * * * ** * Running underneath the entire complex were white walled hallways for ease of moving patients in beds or wheelchairs. * The best Albariño I have tasted – Galicia, Spain Galicia Mar 192015 This...
So, to time myself at hand-washinginstead of singing the insipid happy birthday song, I have been soaping my paws while warbling two rounds of my childhood summer camp favorite:Scab Sandwich. If you don’t know the tune, you could improvise your own; in case you haven’t heard the ly...
6 22 I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. ...