“Pardon me, do you have any. . . .”

Usually, the kids are pretty talkative in the car in the morning. Even so, most of our conversations boil down to
“Did you remember X?” “Yes, Daddy.” “Did you remember Y?” “Yes, Daddy.” “Did you remember Z?” [Pause] “AAAAARGH!”
and then we turn the car around.
However, this morning, it was just dark enough so that the girls [...]

More dodecaphonic goodness

Hot on the heels of the Raisin Brahms ad comes this informercial for the toe-tapping triskadekaphobic tunes of the second Viennese school.

Last sports post for a while

I know that all I seem to post about any more is sports, but being a Chicago-area native, and having three first-place teams is freaking me out.
The Bears are, according to the Sagarin ratings, the 5th best team in the league. Given the Bears’ performance last night, tonight’s Packers game will be very important to see how much [...]

Intellectual dishonesty

I hate, hate, hate writing posts about politics. Mostly because my positions are usually so uninformed that you could blow them over with a feather. I admit that. But it just astounds me that the first thing that Sarah Palin’s partisans chose to focus on was her supposed “foreign policy experience”.
Now, it has been obvious to [...]

Black and Blue

The Wife and I journeyed to West Lafayette last night to see the comedian Lewis Black at Elliott Hall, a massive, 6,000-seat proscenium theatre. He was as good as you would think he would be, which is to say, very good. Having come up by touring the college ranks, his local humor (about Purdue, Boilermakers, [...]

Am I ready for some football?

In honor of the season-opening Bears-Colts game on Sunday, I have been given permission by the Wife to wear my #8 Rex Grossman jersey to church this Sunday. I will be wearing it in the same fashion as the one dude at a wedding who wears camouflage high-top Chuck Taylors with a tux-and-tails. This guy [...]

I’m Buddy Rich When I Fly Off The Handle

Through a circuitous route I watched a video of Rage Against the Machine doing Bulls on Parade a cappella at the RNC. Since it is the only Rage song I know, it was interesting. 

If either of the candidates promoted this next song as our National Anthem, I would immediately vote for them. [...]