Category Archives: popular culture
It Could Be the Beret.
Is this sandwich for eating? Yes it is. Might I eat some of it? Indeed. It is quite delicious. Good. Might I now extract the nutrients internally to burn as energy today? Yes. I see there is a pickle. There … Continue reading
Filed under Imagine, popular culture
Monday Morning in the Jury Room
How’d it go in court? I’ll tell you how it went in court. If ever you are summoned to jury duty, my innocent until proven otherwise friend, tell them you are canoeing across New Brunswick in search of beaver pelts … Continue reading
Filed under Meeting Canceled, popular culture
TAX DAY DEDUCTIONS
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Your goose is cooked. Cook the gander. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Out of sight, out of mind. Leave and forget about it. Too many cooks spoil the broth. … Continue reading
Filed under Creative, popular culture
Limburger on a Plane
“Drinks for everyone in the place are on me!” yelled my friend Jerry to the barkeep, his voice echoing across the empty saloon. The “My Three Sons” episode running on an old TV screwed up into the corner of the ceiling … Continue reading
Filed under Creative, Philosophy, popular culture, Work
Aloe and Goodbye
Once upon a time in the year 2112, a handsome man and correspondingly beautiful woman rode a horse along a sandy ocean beach. A twisted, scarred, half-buried Statue of Liberty came into view. “Oh my God…” screamed the man, who … Continue reading
Filed under Imagine, popular culture, Short Story, TV
ASHES TO ESCHERS, DUST A MUST
by Jeff Sawyer An open casket at a funeral seems to me like a seat left up on a low-flow toilet: quick, somebody close that thing, nobody needs to see that. I expect that, just as I get to the … Continue reading
Filed under midlife, popular culture, Til death do us part
A 9-URL Intermission: this week in popular culture
Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear: the most beautiful car ever made 5 the Brits Don’t Get Chart in an actual math textbook Blamestorming: Office Jargon Update Strangest Sights on Google Earth New York Public LIbrary Begs for Books Where to buy … Continue reading
Filed under popular culture, Uncategorized
Least Popular Celebrity Google Searches of 2011
Snooki talent About 281 Google search results How many Oscars does Steven Seagal have 0 Google search results Herman Cain Munster About 485 Google search results In what movies has Mitt Romney played the president 0 Google search results Problems Rush Limbaugh has … Continue reading
Filed under Election, Headlines, popular culture, Uncategorized
NEW ELECTRIC FACEBOOK BUTTONS
In a disturbing new development – another being the Nantucket Heights development going up on the edge of town, the name being clearly unsound since Nantucket is at sea level – people have begun turning nouns into verbs. A former … Continue reading
Filed under Language, Meeting Canceled, popular culture
