Twinkle
I’ve just spent five days as Mr. Mom. It was exhausting, frustrating, and absolutely fantastic. I have way too much to do to properly recount the past week. Two quick anecdotes, though, just to...
Monthly Archive: March 2008
TSA wants to see your rack
From the They Can’t Be Serious Department: Long version: Nipple Ring Search Dispute Short version: Girl with nipple rings forced to remove said rings after failing x-ray machine at Lubbock airport. Hires Gloria Allred...
Cat away
My wife is on a boat somewhere and sleeping in a cabin with another pretty woman. I made sure my wife’s camera was charged before she left. Beginning yesterday morning and lasting until Monday...
Air marshals compete with virtual sluts for outrage
Updated below “This is the outrage story of the morning,” CNN anchor Tony Harris said. Let me be clear. I rarely take seriously anything that comes out of Harris’ mouth. In the past quarter-century,...
Things to read elsewhere
As I type, my entirely family is huddled in the master bedroom. The dog is on a leash, the wife and I are sitting in bed, and the boy is running around on the...
Wil Wheaton recommends, Otis’ son mildly traumatized
My new shirt came in the mail yesterday. I’m wearing it this afternoon. Today at lunch, the boy looked at me with the same, innocent and quizzical eyes. “Who are those guys, Daddy?” I...
T’s Rules for Home Improvement
In April 1999, I walked into a new job. It was a bustling newsroom that had already known my wife for a few weeks. The first desk I passed was one of those places...
Music wish list
I’m a little busy over the next few days with work and side-work projects. It’s at times like this, when things are hectic, that having a sharepoint calendar is a must for busy working...
Recommendations d’Otis
From time to time, I like to throw out a few recommendations. It’s not that I have particularly discerning tastes. I’m actually a pretty average guy with pretty average likes and dislikes. I think...
Langerado 2008: Strawberry Shortcake’s key changes
By the time Sam Bush stepped to the stage on Friday afternoon, the south Florida sun had breached the clouds and enforced every sunscreen rule my mother ever preached. I sat on the ground...
Otis the disabled plumber
My parents were due at the airport in half an hour. A contractor was due to arrive in the same time. I had better things to do than wonder why the kitchen floor was...
Langerado 2008: Serendipity in a white tuxedo
I would’ve liked to have been in on the meeting at which someone decided to book R.E.M. for Langerado. I might have suggested to the promoters that festival attendees are more interested in music...
Steve Earle Guitar Changes Hands
Frequent readers here might remember a little project I started back in November. If you missed it, I sent one of my guitars over to Iraq to keep a friend occupied until he came...
Langerado 2008: The weight of the wait
Six of us walked through the crowd, dodging fire ant mounds, clumps of cow manure, and hippies. We were bleary-eyed, half drunk, and working on next to no sleep. Dark Star Orchestra had just...