Off He Goes Know a man His face seems pulled and tense Like he’s riding on a motorbike In the strongest winds So I approach with tact Suggest that he should relax But he’s always moving much too fast Said he’ll see me on the flip side On this trip he’s taken for a ride [...] Read more »
Physics nerrrrrd alert!
My mother opened her laptop to check the news. My mom: Oh! My! God!! 66 new elements have been added to … My mind reels! I have plenty of time to fill in “the periodic table?!” My mind spins out of control. Was that at the Large Hadron Collider? They’ve been busy! Have they found [...] Read more »
Garrison Keillor: “Don’t Mess with Christmas”
It is an accident, in truth, that I am writing this on Christmas. The ones who really commit to the family and being around others won’t be reading mcgees.org today anyway, right? Here is Garrison Keillor on Christmas. It is levied squarely against Universalists who want to — in the example he gives — rewrite [...] Read more »
140s really are horrible
I just tweeted (ugh these words) that anyone who knows me only by my tiny, strident snark feed on Twitter doesn’t have a very good grasp of me at all. I’m more strident here than I am in real life, but I can be longer-form, and have more discussion and modifiers. So if you landed [...] Read more »
Ad-free
I may — may may may — have succeeded in removing the last of the advertising from my site. I stopped contacting advertisers whose contracts have expired to see if they want to renew about six months ago, and the last lease has expired. But actually scrubbing it all has been much harder than I [...] Read more »
… but not sparrows
Niall and Nonna (my mother) were embarking on a project to make peanut-butter covered pine cones as treats for birds: Nonna: I think these would be a good gift, Niall. Who do you think would like one? Me: Do you know any birds, Niall? Nonna: [exaggerated sing-song:] Daddy! [turning to Niall:] Is that what I [...] Read more »
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