In which there is a recipe that takes the place of potato-based, flour-thickened chowder. Behold, one of my favorite meals of all time: the humble soup ‘n’ sandwich combo. My version is a creamy veggie chowder with a creamy brie-and-avocado sandwich.
In which I selflessly offer these observations to the innerwebs for science! On alcohol, blood sugar, and adipose tissue: Step 1. Drink alcohol literally every day for months on end. Step 2. Get the flu and stop drinking ’cause you’re sick. Step 3. Gain two inches around your waist without otherwise changing your diet. On […]
In which the universe thinks I’m a dude. [dropcap]L[/dropcap]ast autumn, as I was riding through Whitman campus in the dark, an elderly gentleman spied me and hollered, “Young man! Put a light on that bicycle!”* When I returned to the bar and told the story, it got a pretty big laugh. Fast forward a few […]
In which I’ve quit smoking. Yet again. [dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen you get a lung infection severe enough your doctor gives you an asthma treatment five minutes after you present with what you think is just a bad cold, you pretty much quit smoking on the spot. Quitting is pretty easy, really. You just screw up your self […]
In which there’s a trip to the clinic. [dropcap]T[/dropcap]hursday night at the gig, someone asked me if I had walking pneumonia. Today I googled it, and yeah, I have all the symptoms — but it was already Friday afternoon and I didn’t get the impression I was going to drop dead from it and sure, […]
In which I think my world is weird. [dropcap]A[/dropcap]n advertisement outside a gas station: Image of two plastic bottles of soda. Price of $2.50 above them. Text says, “Wow!” The image is printed in full color on cardboard that will be thrown away shortly. The product is sugar water in plastic bottles. The sweetener is […]
In which I have one. [dropcap]I[/dropcap] caught a winter cold a couple of weeks ago. Missed a day of work, even. Now just suffering residual snot. This post is stupid. I love the Internet.
In which I have waited until the last minute. [dropcap]Y[/dropcap]esterday I got on Amazon and ordered a bunch of stuff for Christmas. Luckily I still have Prime, so I got 2-day shipping for free. (Free!) All of which means that I very well might avoid a hellish Christmas eve midnight run to Walmart. Yay! In […]
In which this was originally posted elsewhere, but I’m moving a copy over here because I wrote it and I can. Overweight is a metabolic issue and not a behavioral one. It’s currently the fashion to believe that overweight people suffer from sloth and gluttony; however, adipose tissue is not the result of character defects […]
In which there’s a post of no interest to anyone who does not wear acrylic nails. Sunday I went to my favorite nail salon, LT Nails, over on Issacs street, for a fill. “A fill” is the procedure in which, after your nails have been growing out for two or three weeks, they “fill” the […]
