Fall Sunday Stats #8: Long Weekend.
Miles run driven: 1610, round trip. After a great Thanksgiving dinner with old friends, we spent most of Thanksgiving weekend in Brooklyn, in my old neighborhood. Park Slope was on a gentrifying,...
View ArticleA Rejection. A Submission. More Outlining. No Editing. TGIF!
Just a quick update tonight. Another rejection slip in today’s mail: “Jimmies” was rejected by one of the big three pro magazines, the only one of the three that I thought would want it. I spent a...
View ArticleAdam Sandler Still Rocks.
I’m too tired to post anything meaningful, so instead, I give you a live performance of a holiday classic: Chappy Chanukah, everyone. Tagged: adam sandler, hanukkah, Holidays
View ArticleStalking Santa.
NORAD tracks Santa. We love this. Tagged: Christmas, claus, Holidays, Kids, santa
View ArticleMerry Christmas. Now I’m Ready for Your Stinkin’ Zombies.
The Mrs., who loves me and knows me all too well after more than 20 years together, put a box with this and this under the tree for me. I am now ready for your basic zombiepocalypse, Obsidian...
View ArticleFinishing Off 2008. Good Riddance.
Projects undertaken in the Unfocused household in the waning days of 2008: I made a shield for Unfocused Girl’s impromptu Athena costume, using a cardboard cake circle and duct tape. Mrs. Unfocused...
View ArticleSpring Sunday Stats #8: Staring Over the Edge at 40.
It’s Memorial Day, in memory of the soldiers, sailors, marines, and others who have died for our country, including the 4300 Americans who have died in Iraq. My father came in from NYC on Thursday and...
View ArticleGetting Back Into The Swing of Things.
How much swinging do things actually do, anyway? Are we talking about Thing, The Thing, or Thing One and Thing Two? And is this any way to open up my first blog post in three weeks? Probably not. Happy...
View ArticleHappy Valentine’s Day To You — Now Get Shaking.
First, I’d like to wish you all a very happy Valentine’s Day. I hope you started the day as beautifully as the Siren and I did: our 6-year-old son marched into our bedroom at 7:30 holding an oversized...
View ArticleLet the Word Go Forth From This Day Forward:
President’s Day is NOT a trash pick up holiday in Chicago. Why doesn’t the Department of Streets & Sanitation have its holiday schedule on its website? We go through this every frakking year,...
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