"Whose elephant is that on top of the fridge?"

It did actually make perfect sense in context. Ish.

Crossing the transit plaza this morning, I heard the distinctive cries of a juvenile gull clamoring to be fed by an adult. I glanced over to spot an adult gull fussing with some prize in its beak, and yes, sure enough, a gray-mottled juvenile waddling around it, requesting the morsel. About then was when I realized that the "morsel" was an entire ( Read more... )

Craigslist subject line says: "Free Pet Rooster, To Approved Home Only." Yeah, I don't even have to click through. This is some softhearted idiot who decided to raise laying chickens and found they or their neighbors can't cope with the noise of a rooster around. And they're We Must Not Hurt The Cute An' Fluffy Animals vegetarians who can't bear ( Read more... )

Shut up, and lie back down, I'm not done kicking you for things other people did to me.

Aggregated outrage addicts are a powerful tool in the hands of a person who doesn't care what kind of wreckage she leaves behind so long as she gets her own way.

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Boy, being on Facebook means never having to say, "No one remembered my birthday," I tell you what. Took the afternoon off to goof off a bit, try paint-your-own pottery for the first time, and take afternoon tea with a few friends. Got flowers from Hal and had steak for dinner. A lovely day. This weekend I'll make a pilgrimage to Kirkland to ( Read more... )

While listening to the radio the other day I heard a reporter refer offhandedly to the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. An exclamation point went off in my head immediately. First, back in the antediluvian days of my yout', when student legend had it that only the Pentagon had more miles of corridors, it was just the UCLA Medical School, so ( Read more... )