Nuclear Football

I enjoyed several bits of “SNL” last weekend. There was a bit with a family that shoots off into grudges and attacks and fury without any provocation– specifics of the conflict were left out completely, all that remained were the common elements of neurosis, which, in a vaccuum, are quite recognizable and horrifyingly funny. And then […]

Celebrating continues.

Last night I celebrated our nation’s return to reason. I read the New York Times and listened to cello music on a scratchy record. I baked a cake, and I chatted with a gentleman caller, completely unchaperoned. As Mr. Vonnegut would say, “If this isn’t nice, what is?” …Every time I hear “President-elect Obama,” my blood […]

November 4

Everything else up here is carefully revised and not just off the cuff… because I value your time, dear reader…however, today requires two extemporaneous insertions. One: people searching for “naked locker room” on the internet are accidentally being sent to the tale of my dying grandmother and her bathroom problems. This must be poetic justice for a […]