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Okay, okay, I admit it…
I was posting about my motorcycle in an effort to MAN UP my blog some. You know, because of all the needlepoint posts and the “ZOMG look at this fabulous JACKET!!!” (squeal!) So now that I’ve filled up my Flickr photostream with photos of greasy, inscrutable metal shards, I’m going to tell myself that I’ve…
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To-do list for the Guerilla Drive-In:
First, get the bike fixed. Something’s wrong with the clutch: the adjustment bolt on the release lever has to go in farther than the locknut will allow it, before the clutch will disengage. After reading up in the Clymer manual, I think I have to THRUST BEARING PUSHROD LA LA LA not really sure what…
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When Men Were Men and Fish Were Nervous
I stole from my father. When I was house-sitting last summer, I saw, hanging up in his closet, the jacket that he wore when salmon fishing with my grandfather in Reykjavik. My grandfather would go up there and fish with his buddies, and they’d read Flashman books and generally have an incredibly stylish Male Fish…
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Announcing the West Chester Gorilla Suit Construction Workshop
Dear friends, I invite you to learn more about the West Chester Gorilla Suit Construction Workshop, where participants will create their very own durable, stylish, and functional gorilla suit. Now, most of the people I tell this about want to know why I’m doing this. Which is why I’ve tried to enumerate my reasons on…
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We miss our large loud cat who peed on my stuff every chance he got.
Squeaky the cat from a couple of years ago Kate and I woke up this morning to a thumping, tumbling noise that usually means that Squeaky has cornered a mouse, but then we heard some yowling that definitely wasn’t “check me out, I got a mouse” yowling. Things got rapidly worse — we realized that…
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The good news is we’re warm. The bad news is we’re dry.
The new furnace is hooked up, the heat’s back on, and the house is warm. Hurrah! So now I have to point the camera at the other corner of the basement: In July 2004, I described some problems with the house we had bought, including… "…a rusted water service coupling BELOW the main shutoff valve.…
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It doesn’t look that clean in person
The first thing our plumber did when walking into the basement of our house three years ago was enjoy a hearty laugh at our thirty-five-year-old natural-gas furnace. It seemed to bring him genuine joy and delight, like maybe if you went over to a friend’s house and found that all their heat came from a…
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This is for my parents who don’t read BoingBoing:
Oh, man, you can see the gags coming A MILE AWAY and I’m still helpless with laughter (reposted, since the original Youtube source was taken down): http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1801688&fullscreen=1
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Stylish greetings from THE PAAAAAST
I just this moment got the following email from a very decent fellow named Doug Patteson: "John: I am part of the 316th FS Foundation, and I do a bunch of historical research on all three Squadrons with in the 324th Fighter Group. I came across your web page on a Google search and pulled…
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My Dad, the UFO Hunter
1976, at an unpublished location in the hills around Austin, Texas: In the background, my dad and the other members of Project Starlight International are readying the UFO/VECTOR system they created for a night of UFO hunting. The “UFO/Video Experiment Console for Transitional Overt Response” system assists Project Starlight in detecting, recording, and communicating with…
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