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August 6, 2007

Beavis and Butthead were waiting for Godot

To be filed under “weird stuff my friend Mark showed me” is "bulbous bouffant” by the Vestibules. It’s not exactly new by any measure except to me.

It is quite the radio theatre of the absurd.

Imagine a non-vulgar Beavis & Butthead & friend scripted by Samuel Beckett, with plenty of Can“eh”dian accent, and then making a smooth segue into an a capella version of Stomp.

You will never look at a gazebo the same way again.

August 5, 2007

Nonlinear shopping at Walgreens

When my wife was in high school, her “math club” put together a bake sale to raise money to help them do something...I don’t know, she wasn’t specific. The thing is, though, is that she and her club got in trouble for selling cupcakes and baked goods to her supposedly-above-average classmates at “one for a dime, two for a quarter.” (If I have to explain why this is funny, you shouldn’t be reading this blog.)

It appears that one of her classmates is now posting signs around the local Walgreen’s with the sale items:

August 1, 2007

An evening at an urban beach


(Yes, yes, I know it’s been a while since a posting; I’ve got a few in the queue, I promise.)

This evening the family and I went to Plum Beach, a little bit of beach right off of the Belt Parkway between exits 9 and 11.

It’s really kind of an interesting beach; there are nice views of Kingsborough Community College (behind the sailboat)


and a great view (behind the fog) of the Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge (connecting Brooklyn to the Rockaways across Jamaica Bay)

and of course, there was the occasional crab on its back

but alas, being an urban beach, it has the blight that my fellow city-dwellers bless us with: garbage every 3 steps:


Sic transit gloria urbi.