tikaro.com

Kate and I are in the Bahamas right now; we came down Sunday morning, are staying until Thursday afternoon. That’s three days of beach-i-fying, which is much needed, I realize now that I’m down here. In fact, it’s a little bit of explosive decompression; I find myself wavering between comatose just-want-to-lie-on-a-beach-chair lassitude and lets-stand-this-island-on-its-ear cantankerousness.…

I’ve got bright pink marks on the outside of both calves now, stigmata from my motorcycle’s tailpipes and my habit of wearing knee shorts to work. Harley guys will ride around on the interstate in a strappy T-shirt and no helmet, but they won’t wear shorts on their bikes, and I guess I can see…

My friend Genevieve Futrelle has posted pictures from her new tiny snapshot camera, forty bucks’ worth of cheap, web-friendly image capture. I was astonished by her picture of three ladies on the subway train — evocative of “Wise Blood” and Duane Hansen sculpture, with frozen gazes trisecting the frame. I wished I had a little…

Kate is taking my last name when we get married, which to me seems kind of wonderful and scandalous at the same time, as if on visiting the Topkapi palace in Istanbul you find that they roll out the red carpets and rename it for you. It also occurred to me that, on the file…

Alejandro Rubio, your Hotmail address isn’t working! If you read this, will you send me your new one? And, Tiffany Webb, the address I have for you isn’t working either! Your “Mrs. Kensington” presence on the Ultimate Water Gun Council of Elders is missed! Will you send me the new one?

Well, my mom thought the story below was hilarious, never having heard it, and has urged me to ask my dad about the time he showed up at his dad’s office at seventeen years old, carrying a silver-tipped walking stick, and the story of how he arrived for his first day at Harvard in a…

Most Embarassing Things I’ve Done, Part I Okay, so I figure this is a good use of a Blog: posting the most embarassing things I’ve done, one at a time. It’s congruent with the whole public/private nature of a Blog, and it’s probably more interesting reading than what I did at work today. Okay, deep…

UWG LOAN PROGRAM FINDS ITS CALIBAN The Ultimate Water Gun has had a busy spring this year — so far, it’s been to Seaworld San Antonio, had an article written about it in the Houston Chronicle, and is currently on loan to a Methodist youth minister. The Ultimate Water Gun Loan Program allows those whose…

Blogs that I could have posted, but didn’t, due to no laptop, in the past two weeks: I order an entire new underwear rotation set on FreshPair.com, and it arrives the next day. Rumination on Internet economy, fact that underwear was shipped from Grand street, a block away from my old apartment. The laughable Yahoo!…

Latest in the series of T-shirts that strike me as really funny, but I probably won’t be able to find a good time to wear: this one, from Aerostich. I couldn’t resist it, though, so it will arrive at my house in the next couple of days, along with a reflective helmet halo and some…