Day: <span>July 21, 2026</span>
Prompt to Post: Forty Years Later
Some ideas don’t start on a computer. They start with a pencil. They start on the back of a notebook, a napkin, a legal pad, or whatever happened to be sitting in front of you when your brain decided it was time to build something. This sketch is almost forty years old. Back then, there…
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The Umbrella Doesn’t Make the Drink Taste Any Better
There is something that has become increasingly fashionable over the last couple of decades. We have become obsessed with changing the words. Not necessarily the problem. The words. Somehow, we’ve convinced ourselves that if we soften the language enough, the reality underneath it will become easier to live with. I’m not buying it. An umbrella…
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Into the Fart
There is a reason I have become increasingly vulgar when I talk about some of this shit. It is not because I am trying to be edgy. It is not because I suddenly discovered profanity and decided it makes every argument stronger. It is because I am old enough to have watched the same stupid…
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Curbside Courtesy Is Still Safety
There are certain situations where everybody needs to remember that more than one person is working. I went down to a well-established hotel to drop off passengers. At that point, I am still responsible for getting those passengers out of my vehicle safely. Once they step out, they become the hotel’s customers again. That handoff…
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Why I Order Fish and Chips at Restaurants I Have Never Been To
When I walk into a restaurant I have never visited before, there are certain dishes I use as a test. In New England, one of the best tests is fish and chips. To be clear, I am talking about independent, non-chain restaurants: the mom-and-pop places, local taverns, neighborhood seafood restaurants, and one-off establishments that build…
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