Just As I Thought

Fun Stuff

Portrait of the Artist

Ah, that day when my friends Sara and Lance and I went to the Hirshhorn gallery to see the Laurie Anderson exhibit, and turned around to discover that we were being followed by… Laurie Anderson.

April 24, 2023

Life... Don't talk to me about life.

I really should have cynically put the dead bird in a bag and thrown it in the trash bin. Now I can’t stop looking at the spot where I buried it, thinking about it, wondering about it, sad about it. It’s [more...]

May 10, 2007

On the Board

Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Little bird of sorrow, fly away

Someone just came to my front door carrying a bird; she found it on the street in front of my house under the front tire of a pickup truck that had parked there. I’m not sure what she expected me to do with it; I [more...]

May 9, 2007

The War with the Customer

Trapped in a marketer’s web

Dear whomever-is-responsible-for-marketing-Spiderman-3: Perhaps you thought it was clever using other people’s ads to piggyback a Spiderman message, for example, Comcast ads featuring some weirdo in a Spiderman [more...]

May 8, 2007

General Annoyances

Today’s hot tip

If, like me, you own a convertible roadster with a black leather interior; and if, like me, you live in a place where the temperature in May sometimes tops ninety degrees; and if, like me, you value your tender [more...]

May 7, 2007

General Annoyances

Who’s On 1

May 6, 2007

The War with the Customer

Size is relative

I'm watching "Small Space, Big Style" on HGTV, and I find myself struck by what they consider to be a "small space."

May 2, 2007

General Annoyances

Sometimes the flies are worse than the…

Back in the dark, distant past, I used to work on an estate in upper Northwest Washington, DC. One day, U.S. Marshals started to swarm the grounds, putting up a large fence around the entire property and issuing badges [more...]

April 30, 2007