Sometimes things disappear in my house. I am mostly thinking of my socks, which I suspect the cat pulls out of the wire cage thingy in the closet and hides- but where? In the box spring? I don’t know. I wash them and then can never find them again. I’ve looked everywhere. Something is not [...]

Must return Surrealist film to Virginia Tech library. Must also get books on same subject. No parking in Blacksburg. I don’t know what’s going on. I finally decide to steal parking from the Virginia Tech Parking Overlords and ease into a space near the library. I have no permit. This is strictly against parking regulations. [...]

Today I had another brilliant realization regarding coffee. So for the past several weeks I have been grabbing coffee at Starbucks before heading to teach my priceless class which allows me to sculpt the sterling minds of our youth. And at Starbucks I have traditionally purchased a Grande coffee. But I got to thinking as [...]

Here from the Land of Dull Hell, apparently, is another blog post. Sometimes I can be quite innovative. The results are not always popular or desirable. For example, last year I did an experiment replacing dishwasher soap with regular dish soap. And that involved lots of suds and wet, angry downstairs neighbors. The rule, apparently, [...]

Further milestones in my life: The 4Runner joins the Mileage Mark of the Beast club. Welcome, 4Runner. And also, the upstairs neighbors are back to their old tricks of hurling nasty stuff off the balcony into the grass: They also hurled the used condom itself. It’s still down there, but I thought the internet didn’t [...]