Person M’s opinion of person N is influenced by the company person N keeps. This contributes to the notion that person N could be embarrassed as a consequence of what the person(s) in their company is/are doing, and hence phrases of the nature “Don’t embarrass me!” I don’t like this notion that part of how…
There are buildings which act as a buffer between the sidewalk and my preferred walking path. Occasionally I’ll see people in the distance leaning up against the buildings or walking in circles, taking smoke breaks from work or just killing time. Or there might be a USPS or UPS delivery van unassumingly parked in an…
Here’s something strange: in my experience, when people say “I have a bike,” they’re referring to a mountain bike. Ambiguity between road bike and mountain bike doesn’t exist because so often they mean the latter. None of this is strange yet. It makes sense that the abbreviated form of a word, or of groups of…
When I was young, I would accompany my father on wholesale ice cream deliveries to restaurants and hotels. Some of these places were expensive and glossy, aimed at the rich senior tourist market, or the local affluent community. Yet, it soon became apparent that, no matter how successful an establishment was at impressing its guests…
BCD: barrels, courts, disasters. I find the term ‘barrel’ as in ‘barrel of oil’ to be unique in that it strikes me as an unrefined and crude (sorry, fuck puns) word and yet it is used heavily in news publications and broadcasts to describe an aspect of the economy. It’s a word I would more…
There is a category of comedy that is funny in part because it isn’t supposed to be. Many examples of this type exist subtly amid the multitude of material outputs of a developed or undeveloped country and, when found, might make you smile. On the reverse side of a red ink rolling ball pen twin…
“…and finally, we’d like to remind you to turn off your cell phones if you haven’t already.” Right. But coughing and sneezing are potentially equally distracting to the performers on stage and to the rest of the audience, yet you wouldn’t expect to hear the person introducing the concert to ask that you refrain from…
Similes are like other things….ahahahaa! So something has struck me about comics. It’s happened recently with two, Shoe and Doonesbury, shown below. The width of each frame in a strip is limited, so if a character is watching tv, they must be drawn in close proximity to the screen. The artist could choose to take…
What’s up with toothbrush bristles dyed blue? The so-called “indicator”? “Hello, toothbrush strategic management personnel? I’m quite capable of knowing when I need a new toothbrush without relying on an indicator fading in color.” They must be getting a payoff from someone in order to offset the increased production costs associated with an extra “blue-dye”…
I’m convinced that to some degree there’s a law of balance in life, such that you don’t make progress in one area without adversely affecting something else. For example, do you want a million USD? You won’t get it unless you identify ways in which possessing $1,000,000 would adversely affect you. Moreover, you have to…
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