“People are yucky”
Out of the blue today Dot says “people are yucky.”
Dad said “they are?”
Dot replied “yeah you can’t eat humans. They’re yucky.”
Today’s life lesson:
Don’t eat people, they’re yucky.
December 31st, 2006 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 1 Comments
5 records I enjoyed in 2006
Bob Dylan - Modern Times I thought Love & Theft was like a large dining hall with vaulted ceilings and old portraits on the walls, evocative of the sense of history you get in a museum, or maybe wandering through the oldest parts of Oxford University. Then I heard Modern Times, and I realized I was just in the broom closet before.
Hank Williams III - Straight To Hell I first liked it because I thought the “Nihilistic cowboy with third-generation rock star money” schtick was funny. A thousand country singers manage to be nothing but another country singer. But Hank 3 finds his own voice and creates something that’s much more than he started with.
T-Bone Burnett - The True False Identity As I tell anyone who will listen, this guy is brilliant. The more I listen, the more detail I discover.
Man Man - Six Demon Bag I would expect that no one wanders into this record casually and likes it. But if you, like me, were already keen to the … er… peculiar charms of people like Dylan, Zappa, and Waits, these guys have a lot to offer.
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife Only had this for a couple of weeks, but I already love it. Some of the songs are fun little prog-rock noodly sorts of things, while others are so beautiful that you can’t help but smile.
There was no 2006 product involved, but Merle Haggard was an important part of my music listening this year. I really didn’t know his work before this year, and now I’m hooked.
December 28th, 2006 - Posted in Music | | 0 Comments
Brothers
This is what happens when you have boys in the house: Yacko was up eating breakfast this morning rubbing at something on his cheek. Wacko woke up and wondered out to the kitchen as Yacko was scratching at it. Wacko chuckles and says “It’s a boogie.” Wacko climbed up on Yacko’s bed and wiped it on him while he was sleeping. Of course Yacko had to get him back and when Wacko tried to get back again, dad stepped in. He told them they each got eachother once they were even. As the boys walked away you could hear Wacko mumble “he woke up the first time I tried it.”
Never a dull moment in this house.
December 21st, 2006 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 0 Comments
foot-phobia
Watching a movie with us the other night, Dot asked about the “black stuff” on the tv (meaning the letterboxing at the top and bottom of the screen). I tried to explain as simply as I could about how to fit movies on a tv screen.
She ruminated on my answer for a minute or so, and then concluded, “Maybe they don’t want us to see their feet.”
December 19th, 2006 - Posted in Parentgeekness | | 0 Comments
Non-tender mania
Braves make no offers to Giles, Reitsma
It’s done. Neither of these moves came as a surprise to anyone reading the AJC.
Rietsma has had flashes of brilliance, but he demonstrated pretty clearly that he couldn’t be entrusted with a lead. At his salary, he would have just taken up space in the bullpen that might instead have gone to developing talent.
Giles’ departure stings a little more. He wasn’t one of my favorite Braves, but for several years he’d been a guy you could count on for solid performance. But his numbers are apparently declining, and he was inching towards Glenn Hubbard / Mark Lemcke territory as the most popular .230 hitter on the team.
In short, both moves are unfortunate. But they will eventually improve the team by clearing room for more capable players.
December 13th, 2006 - Posted in baseball | | 0 Comments
songsinmyhead: yum
The Doctor Demento staple, Fish Heads.
December 12th, 2006 - Posted in songsinmyhead | | 0 Comments
A songsinmyhead two-fer
I wake up sometimes with songs in my head that i haven’t heard in months or–in some cases–years.
Today there were two. I wandered down to the shower with the words to Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” knocking around my brain. Stuff like that, I figure there’s a chance it was on a PA somewhere and might have filtered into my head subconsciously. Then, after the shower, it was “Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough,” a ridiculous Don Henley / Patti Smyth duet from my college years. That one seems far more inexplicable.
December 6th, 2006 - Posted in songsinmyhead | | 0 Comments
