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About that time Kordell Stewart threw a football too damn far.
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Old Man Sailboat Shorts say “Happy Fourth!”
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We gave her the bike last, as the sun was beginning to set on a perfect summer day. The breeze caught the streamers in the ends of the handlebars and rustled them beautifully. She smiled and ran down the steps. She examined the tires and the seat. She admired Ariel, swimming with her undersea friends…
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My Dad’s Uncle Sam—his actual Uncle Sam, not the red, white, and blue cartoon—had this fantastic basement. We’d play down there at family gatherings for Thanksgiving and Christmas and maybe a birthday or two. So there must have been some toys and a TV, but what I remember most was the beer can collection and…
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The German cover for ‘Springsteen: Album by Album.’ Though I guess there it’s ‘Springsteen: Retrospektive.’ I feel like it should have an exclamation mark. You can pre-order the U.S. edition now. Out in October.
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“What do you think,” my wife said, “shall we go enjoy the destruction of western civilization?” “I sit around and watch that every day,” I said. We finished our drinks and went across the street to get more drinks and see Godzilla. — I’ve been exercising a lot lately. I thought it was because I’m…
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There was/is a Spider-Woman. I guess she grew up on some rural property where fields of uranium glimmered in the sun. Her dad was a scientist partnered with a guy who would become High Evolutionary, which is maybe a Scientology thing? I missed the comic book gene. But I figured there had to be a…
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I don’t watch much Portlandia, because I live here and it’s redundant. I don’t need television to deliver whatever airy spirit inspires someone to brake unexpectedly on I-5 for a longer view of a rainbow. Never mind that there are rainbows every 10 minutes in Portland. We have rainbows the way the Midwest has rust.…
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“We had the whole Pacific Ocean in front of us, with nothing to do but nothing and be comfortable.” — Mark Twain, Following the Equator
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