This is a “caco story” that Delbert just told me yesterday on the phone. I swear to you he rehearses these to commit them to memory so he can pull them out like trading cards in his social interactions. This one he heard from Bill, and I had forgotten all about it. Every year on …
This little incident happened one day whilst I was eating unlimited chicken wings at the Golden Corral Restaurant. I am a notoriously sloppy eater, and I was deep into a plate of wings. I was basically going at it like Oswald Cobblepot eating a fish in Batman Returns. The waitress comes by and refills my …
After Granny Bernadette’s house was finished on Orchid Lane, we moved there from Randall Street and began a new phase of our lives. The house was a good distance from the city limits of [REDACTED], far enough that none of the Pizza Places would deliver there. It was a modest 3-bedroom Ranch style home with …
I told this story to Bill just yesterday. I was unhappy with Erin’s Startup for a long time, because of the way capitalist companies are run. The owners exploit the workers to take all the benefit for themselves. I didn’t understand that they were also investing all the money and taking all the risk, I …
Judging by the air date of the first episode, I must have been at least 9 years old. Dad bought me one of those Book-And-Cassette Combo Packs which featured Star Trek: The Next Generation. The basic idea was that you would read the book while the tape played at the same time, reading the same …
Bro and I have sort of adopted [REDACTED] as our “Hometown” even though that’s not technically true. Most of our formative years were spent in a far more remote little burg in Kentucky. Our “true” Hometown is an incredibly rural location, with just a few thousand residents. For decades, it has featured forest preserves, massive …