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The Long Goodnight

One of the most astounding things about children is how much like actual people they are, and how quickly that happens. Our two, Boy and Girl, showed their idiosyncratic selves pretty much from the ge...
Posted by on Fri, 29 May 2009 05:40:00 GMT

LOL WTF?

Its easy to go the Andy Rooney route with things that are new  to feign incomprehension, to exaggerate, to make fun. And it would be easy to do that with internet-speak or text-speak, which is becom...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:55:00 GMT

Full of Something

A friend who came to our house the other day characterized it as full of life. In many cases, thats a polite euphemism for messy and overcrowded. In our case, its also a euphemism for hideously...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:42:00 GMT

More from guest-blogger JOHNNY AMERICA

(Another White Person Explains) FIVE THINGS THAT I LIKE ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE1. In small numbers, theyre generally really nice.Its only the roving gangs and the really large groups you have to worry ab...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:13:00 GMT

Night of the Living Tad

I live! Well, if you call this living.Ba-da-bump.Ive been wrestling one of those winter colds for the last five or six days  you know, the one that doesnt really cause anything worse than deep disc...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:27:00 GMT

Live from the Sea Monkey Tank

Im watching the sea monkeys right now. Theyre not what youd call ambitious, at least as far as I can tell (maybe in some way we humans cannot grasp theyre just brimming with the Protestant Work Et...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:34:00 GMT

Gang Aft Agley

Im sure many of you recognize those words. (The rest of you are probably guessing that its some kind of sailors code for orgy belowdecks tonight!)Its the rest of the famous Robert Burns line, T...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:17:00 GMT

Grateful Johnny

Tad's still a bit slow getting a blog done, so back by unanimous lack-of-heated-opposition...Johnny America!It's the holiday season. Gratitude is big. Payback comes when they get all touched by your s...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:56:00 GMT

Johnny America

Tad's having trouble keeping up with his blogging, so from time to time we will present the work of guest artists. Today we welcome well-known bloggeur and media slut, Johnny America.My name is Johnny...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:57:00 GMT

To Better Days

I'm a very happy man today as far as our US national election goes.  (I'm very unhappy that Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage, seems to have passed in California, but that's another sto...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:14:00 GMT