In Snark Contrast

  • A Foible Fable

    Say, you're at a party and the conversation turns to, I don't know... swords. "Never, ever has that happened to me before", is probably what you're...
  • Post-Holiday Blues

    Ahh, once again the end of the year is nigh, just days away from breaking out the new calendar and going back to square one. In the rearview mirror...
  • Hard to Get a Read

    So this always stuck with me: A good seven or eight years ago I'm at my place of employment and this younger associate, a woman in her early twenti...
  • Yuk It Up

    They've been known to hang out together. Scads of 'em. In a barrel, no less. As a whole, they've been hailed as not just being pretty good medicine...
  • Fingers Crossed

    So this wasn't cool: The other day--Tuesday morning, to be exact--I got caught red-handed by a Starbucks barista, doing... well, I, ah... I guess y...
  • A Day in the Life

    She Came In Through the Bathroom Window, Maggie Mae and Another Girl, pretending it was commonplace, trying to Act Naturally. "Help!", I thought to...
  • The Butterfly Effect and the Infinite Monkey Theorem: Part Two

    A notion is an ethereal thing. It doesn't make the scene, compliments of us sitting pensively, attempting to will it into existence. There is no fo...
  • The Butterfly Effect and the Infinite Monkey Theorem: Part One

    For the record, I've got a monkey in the next room sitting in front of a typewriter. Got some 'splainin' to do, I know... It all started last eveni...
  • Ironic Viking Expeditions

    Gotta say, I was really into explorers when I was a kid. No,not Dora, that obnoxious kids' cartoon. And not Jacques Cousteau, the famous French oce...
  • Hang Time

    "In a word she was 'magic' to be around. Made me feel like we were invincible, like the rest of the world didn't exist."... "These guys have been b...
  • Eats

    "Time to get your grub on!"... "Ain't no better vittles than at a southern barbecue... "What say we go to that French place and check out the cuisi...
  • Stop Making "Sense Of" It All

    The vast majority of us have witnessed or participated in matchmaking dialogue. Typically the person attempting the setup espouses the attributes o...