Dec 202008
 

Full story here.  Go on, click.  You know you want to, you freak.

I try (eh, mostly) to stay above the shank of the base pop culture nonsense, as well as the whole voyeuristic reality thing.  Unfortunately, The Smoking Gun is a heaping shot of both, and a longstanding guilty pleasure.

Incidentally—and I add this information more for the sick fucks reading this post after Googling God-knows-what, and not my regular readers—I do happen to know the secret to satisfactory ovine coitus.  The million-dollar trick is to wear galoshes that are a couple of sizes too big.  Then you can drop your “date’s” back legs into the extra space in the galoshes, and she can’t escape your, ahem, advances.

Sometime before the turn of the millennium, I attended an office party at which this unforgettable chestnut was drunkenly proffered.  Moreover, I never got that reassuring “all in good fun” feeling from its source, receiving at most an ambiguous raised eyebrow.  I’m delighted to share it with you this evening.

I’m a giver.

Also, I have never attempted to, nor shall I ever, fuck a sheep.

 Posted by at 8:32 pm
Dec 192008
 

So we did our Dirty Santa at work yesterday.  I successfully stole and retained a Vodka 360 (ever heard of it? I hadn’t) gift set, which includes a 750-ml bottle of vodka and a compact fluorescent light bulb.  There is also a booklet that tells you stuff like buying used clothes is better for the earth, and that it takes an 8,000-calorie expenditure of energy to produce a 400-calorie hamburger.  There’s a prepaid mailer for you to send them back the attached bottle stopper for reuse.

Beyond avoiding severe and sustained impact to my pocketbook, I can’t say I do a lot of day-to-day worrying about the environment.  If I want to grill steaks or run the heated drying cycle on the dishwasher, I’ll do it and never give a thought to my carbon footprint.  Ditto full-throttling my V8 pickup once in a while just to hear and feel it.  Ditto clubbing baby seals.

But I’ll certainly do my part and take an inch or two out of this bottle while I do Christmas cards tonight.  Drinking premium liquor to save the earth is a cause I can enthusiastically support.

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Dec 182008
 
 Posted by at 7:49 am
Dec 172008
 

Aaron had his Christmas program at preschool today.

The younger boy hasn’t been too keen on “performing” (see Aaron White Rice), so despite his multiple assurances to us that he was going through with it this time, I was managing my expectations.  Delightfully, he got up and did his thing as a singing shepherd.

He spotted me filming him between numbers and let me know that everything was copacetic:

 Posted by at 6:44 pm
Dec 162008
 

This is Charles and Kim and Alex and Melissa over at our house on Saturday night.  Somehow (HA!) we’ve had seven kids (all pictured) between us:

Charles has been my best friend for more than 20 years, and Melissa was Lea’s friend from more than 15 years ago.  The six of us have been hanging together as couples for more than a decade now.

Interesting facts about each of our weddings:

  • Alex and Melissa got married six months before Lea and I did.  At their wedding, I sat without Lea because she was in it.  I did sit with Tina, someone I knew from my previous engagement.  That was 10% awkward and 90% cool.  Tina was down-to-earth, with a dry wit about her.
  • At mine and Lea’s wedding, which I’m told was lovely, we played the throne room/end credits music from Star Wars as a recessional.
  • At Charles and Kim’s wedding reception, I sat with Lea; Jennifer, the woman I dated before her; Tonya, the woman I dated before her; and my dad.  Yeah.  So.
 Posted by at 9:03 pm

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