Yakkity yak. Don’t talk back.

I took out the trash this morning as I always do on Monday, not realizing that it is Columbus Day which means city workers have the day off, therefore no garbage pickup today. So the trash will still be there when I get home this evening.
That happens to me a lot on filler holidays. [...]

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A sad and wiser man.

Reading Craig Ferguson’s (“The Drew Carey Show”, “The Late Late Show”) debut novel, Between the Bridge and the River, I felt like the wedding guest in Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” I was spellbound by the story (and the stories within the story), and at the end it was obvious that [...]

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