Archive for June, 2008

Fun With Hip Replacement Surgery

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Jim Kunstler’s account of the process and aftermath. It’s pretty funny at points. He calls it a “medical comedy.”
Or, do it yourself!

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Deja Vu All Over Again

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Damn. Lightning strikes twice. Avid TAPKAE.com readers might remember just three weeks ago when I wrote an entry on Black and White on Black and White Crime. Well, fuck me running, but it happened again, late on a Monday night. That is, our otherwise docile and sweet Buber Dog shot off like a rocket in […]

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What Happened?

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

It has been almost a week since the world was supposed to end, and I still have to go to work today. I guess those religious nutjobs were wrong again.

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Doom!

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Well, the gay folks are allowed to marry each other today. I guess that means my hetero marriage is toast. I guess its time to start throwing the fine china, having loud arguments and living in separate houses until the divorce papers go through. Maybe I’ll be looking to couch surf on all your sofas […]

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Father’s Day Haiku

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

What do you give the
Man who has everything?
Candor must suffice

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Life at the Top, redux

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

I still feel that my best reflection on the years since high school graduation was written in 2006. You can revisit that entry here. I haven’t reread it though I checked last year, and even then I had to concede that there wasn’t much I would need to do but refer to the 2006 entry […]

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Six-Five redux

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

On this day in 2005, I had two rather notable things happen to me in my oil-awareness pursuit that defined that period for me. On that day, I was told at church that my letter to the editor was published. I was delighted not just for that, but for the timeliness of […]

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