Fish of Girlfriend of Son #1 is still with us, despite apparent depression, fin-rot and neglect. I felt sorry for him this weekend and (once again) changed his water. He sits in my living room, after all – bad Feng Shui to have the slow-motion death of an ailing fish on display. I just turned […]
Year: 2013
“Open the Pod Bay Doors, Facebook”
Santa, Shrapnel, and Stupidity
So I don’t remember my parents ever actually lying to me. At least, I never caught them doing so, which amounts to the same thing. I suffered the usual heart-rending Santa Claus disillusionment at their hands, but that was a lie perpetrated by the whole culture. And, as lies go, that’s a good one; the […]
True Grit: Strippers on the Altar
So some evangelical middle-aged church ladies in righteous pastel polyester show up at a local strip joint bright and early this past Sunday morning. They are there to offer consolation prizes to the 20 or so exotic dancers who’ve been told at 2:00 AM (after working a long and tedious shift) that the club has […]
One Fish, Two Fish, Dead Fish, Cold Fish
First, it was 6,000 dead pigs floating in Shanghai’s water supply. Then, 1,000 dead ducks surfaced in the Sichuan River. Now, hundreds of thousands of dead fish are floating in the Fu river in Wuhan, capital of the central province of Hubei. Workers are digging trenches along 25 miles of the river in which […]