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Postcard from Outside the Box, as Composed with a Colleague in Mind

Greetings! The weather is great here; clear and sunny and warm. All day we frolic with tame tigers and eat brie baked with garlic and grape tomatoes on those peppery water crackers. We sip 1999 red wine and laugh – … Continue reading

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If it’s Icy, Slow Down!

Coming home yesterday, I walked half a block behind a woman in bright pink sweatpants. Her left cheek? “Fabu.” Her right? “lous.” “Excuse me, miss? Would you like to meet my butt cheeks? They are named Milli and Vanilli. Girl, … Continue reading

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Pants Pants Pants: A Jumble

Recovery Pants: Yesterday, walking home from a half day’s work, all I could think was: “I feel like a million goddamn dollars!” So what if I looked like the guy from The Darkness? My week-long hangover has finally lifted and … Continue reading

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The Life Surreal

Found this paragraph on a message board for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou at IMDb: You remind me of some juvenile who is melodramatically traumatized by the fact that his parents took the car away from him, and so … Continue reading

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Sven! Bork!

Completely by coincidence this morning, I found a blog called How to learn Swedish in 1000 Difficult Lessons. Today our apartment had no hot water. Luckily, there are only four people in the office and they all have colds so … Continue reading

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