I’ve not watched the Penn State thing with a lot of acuity, but given the fact that there are so many people in my social networking feeds that maintain the illusion that while Jesus may sit at the Righ Hand of God, good ol’ JoePa sits just the right of the big JC, I’ve been […]

Last minute changes in plans scuttled my original weekend schedule, but it all kind of worked out. No worries, I got a little bit more sleep and a bit of a break. Doesn’t change the fact that once you’ve properly girded yourself for a given task, having it fall off the schedule at the last […]

For reasons that still kind of elude me, this weekend involved cramming more stuff into 72 hours or so than is really possible or advisable, but a lot of it was quite a bit of fun. Still, I’m finding myself dragging a bit, largely due to sleep deficit and a few aches and pains as […]

Sayeth fark dot com commenter “InmanRoshi”: [Zooey Deschanel] never was cool. She was just marketed in a way that reminded losers of the one pretty girl in high school who didn’t openly point and laugh at them. I’d say there’s a better than average chance that this statement is actually true. However, that doesn’t change […]

Not much to report this weekend, to be honest. It was, barring a few exceptions, both brief and disconcertingly chronic (which I’m not ready to go into, even obliquely), quiet and relatively stress-free. I spent a bit of the early part of the weekend running one particular kid to and from school activities, and handled […]

I’ve done some talk about the differences between generations a bit in this space over the years. However, I don’t think I’ve ever quite managed hit the nail on the head quite as hard as Mr. Matt Honan has in his post entitled Generation X Doesn’t Want to Hear It. But that’s okay. Generation X […]

‘Twas a long weekend for me thanks to the Columbus day holiday and my usual Fridays off. Didn’t accomplish much, unfortunately, as I got sidetracked about halfway through last week with something strongly resembling the flu or thereabouts, which I still haven’t totally shaken. That said, I spent quite a lot of the last four […]

Whenever I see someone talking along the lines of the individual that slacktivist is talking about here, the whole business about how the founding fathers intended the United States to be a Christian nation, and the squinting at and bending of the establishment and free exercise clauses of the First Amendment to try and justify […]

I saw this piece, “Performing Motherhood”, over at slacktiverse, and well, it resonated. For many reasons. Go forth, and read it*. _____________________ *-Also, check out the comments, where someone talks about this anecdote, and eloquently describes what’s so creepy and wrong about the adulation heaped upon this (probably totally fabricated) piece of glurge.

In case your computer doesn’t understand what the average week feels like for me, your typical upper-middle class wage slave: 10 Monday 20 Tuesday 30 Wednesday 40 Thursday 50 zip -a -ex weekend.zip Friday Saturday Sunday 60 Goto 10 Apologies if this doesn’t conform to the syntax of any particular programming language, it’s a metaphor […]