Category Archives: Kerfluffle
5 Top-Five Things for Thursday, 12/3
1. The top 5 most depressing chain stores to shop in: Radio Shack, K-Mart, Big Lots, any Dollar Store, and Ross.
2. The top 5 singers whose legacy benefitted most from an untimely death: Michael Jackson, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Selena.
Five Things or So for Thursday, 11/12
1. I’ve written 20,000 words of my novel in 12 days. I feel very good about that milestone and the story in general. How I feel about it when time and perspective are applied, I don’t know, but I hope I’ll still like it. I think I will. The zombies are about to make their first appearance, and I’m excited and nervous. I’ve enjoyed writing a fantasy novel so far, and I hope I like writing zombie novels too.
Five Things for Friday, 10/30
1. I got a call from my brother’s wife yesterday. I let the machine get it, because 1) I hate talking on the phone, 2) I don’t particularly like her, and 3) I am not particularly close to my brother. She of course called back again today while I was working and left a message on the machine in that snotty tone of voice people get when they feel like you should have gotten back to them. I guess she doesn’t know that I don’t give a flying fuck about peripheral people, and that I don’t feel any kind of obligation to return phone calls. Maybe it’s impolite to not return calls. Fine, I am im-fucking-polite. I could be a hell of a lot worse.
Five Things for Thursday, 10/29
1. It’s very weird to realize that in two days, we will be throwing a costume party. I still don’t know what to wear, what to cook, or what to decorate with. In my mind it’s all a lot of cool, elaborate stuff. In reality, it’ll be a cobbled-together outfit, some quick food, and 3 construction paper pumpkins. Actually, none of that is true – we own more costuming pieces than some stores, my wife and I never cook anything that isn’t really good, and the decorations…. Well, maybe that part is true.
Five Very Brief Things for Tuesday, 10/27
1. Going to update my resume this weekend.
2. Last night went mostly as expected for the ‘Skins.
3. Today sure felt like Monday 2.0.
4. My wife is an awesome human being that I am very proud of.
5. My Thor figurine on his goat-drawn chariot is fucking SWEET.
Five Things for Friday, 10/23
1. Have you ever really liked a song and enjoyed everything about it except one little thing that just starts to stand out to you every time you hear it? Then the more you hear it, the more time you spend dreading the part you don’t like? Eventually, you end up not liking the song nearly as much as you did and every time you hear it gets a little more disappointing? If no, then fuck off and read something else.
For my wife, one of those songs, I think, would be “China Girl” by David Bowie (and just now, the part she hates ran through her head and for a second she hates me just a little bit for bringing it up). For me, that song is “Paradise City” by Guns n Roses. The beginning of that song is like the perfectly distilled essence of what is good about rock music. The extended musical intro, the wailing refrain, simple and pure: “Take me down to Paradise City/ where the grass is green/ and the girls are pretty/Oh won’t you please take me home.” If for one song, I was blessed with the ability to play guitar, sing, and dominate a stage with my presence, it would absolutely be “Paradise City.” Except for one niggling thing.
Goddamnit
Me, October 16th, 5:48 p.m.: “Chris Samuels will retire (I predict)”
Pro Football Talk, October 21, 3:29 .pm.: “Samuels is not expected to play again this year, and Schefter says that some within the organization think that Samuels will never play again.
“One source told Schefter that Samuels is privately saying that he plans to retire.”
I might need to change the tag from “Bad Predictions” to “Fuck, I’m Going To Be Right, Aren’t I?”
Winter in Derenemyn 