The other day, while I was driving to the gym, a guy in an Acura cut me off. I rolled down the window and lifted my palm in a WTF gesture. He rolled down his window and gave me the finger. If we were Greek, I would have given him the moutsa. People who tail …
Your Truly will read a story about a flood in a mobile home park at the launch of Channel Magazine’s ninth issue at The Printworks in Dublin as part of the Dublin Book Festival, this coming Sunday. Dirtleasers who are in the neighborhood are invited to come by and heckle.
A friend emailed me yesterday about a new rent control regulation that has been passed for manufactured housing communities in unincorporated areas of Sonoma County. The day before, a maiden aunt sent me an article about Maine’s new right-of-first-refusal law for manufactured housing communities. Frank Rolfe sends articles decrying new instances of the regulation of …
Garrison Keillor was badly done by the Me Too movement. He misreads social cues because he is on the autism spectrum. He touched the back of a woman who worked for him once. She did not understand the gesture. Because of that, he was fired from MPR and put in the same bucket as Harvey …
Cert. denied https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2023/10/02/supreme-court-rejects-ny-rent-law-challenge/
The angel’s share is the portion of a batch of whiskey that evaporates when the whiskey is aged in wooden barrels. Up to one percent of a batch of can be lost each year this way. That is a cost of doing business that whiskey producers factor in when they do their planning. The angels …
In an earlier post in which I discussed the etymology of the -FU acronyms, I mentioned the term BOHICA. Like GPS and nuclear power, the word was developed by the military but is now used in the civilian world (while GPS and nuclear power benefit everyone, the term BOHICA outside the military is now restricted …
I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Washington Post, AKA Pravda on the Potomac, ran an article last week about the manufactured housing industry that was (i) not hidden behind the Post’s paywall, and (ii) both informative and fair (Kerrymen, Newfies, and people from New Jersey can click here, here or here for the …
Cleveland, back in the day Here is a link to a review of Esther Sullivan’s book Manufactured Insecurity, in the Cleveland Review of Books. Readers unsure of whether to click the previous link can click here, here or here. Belgians, Newfies and Kerrymen can click here.
I recently read a novel called Fools Crow, written by James Welch in the mid-80s. I cannot recommend it highly enough. In the book, Welch tells the story of a young man who is a member of the Lone Eaters, a band of Blackfeet (called Pikuni in the book) in Montana territory some time between …