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My Name Isn't, But Could Be, Earl
Now lookie here, y'all. I ain't claimin' to be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I know a good cause when I see one. And a bunch of fellows growin' out their mustaches in the name of fightin' cancer?...
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Watch For The Stache Signal
So, Holmes...how's Movember going?Glad you asked, friend. Tell you the truth, between the new glasses I got a while back and my latest facial hair configuration, I'm feeling a bit Detective Gordon...
View ArticleGood Day To You, Sir!
Here's how we in the Holmes household feel about the end of Movember's impact upon my face:Subtle, no?Both of those lightsaberish instruments you see me using there came absolutely free from the nice...
View ArticleAnd Speaking of Ninjas...
The following story originally appeared on The Badgers of Uncertain Fortune where some friends and I endeavored to all write one short story a week. It was one of my favorites to emerge from my...
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The Water Must Flow
So there we are. Last weekend. My wife’s birthday bash at our house. We’re all full of food, full of drink, full of the joy of each other’s company. Were you to walk through this gathering, you’d hear...
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New Year's Day IPA
I spent New Year’s Day brewing beer. The equipmentI hadn’t planned to spend New Year’s Day brewing beer. It all came about when a long-standing wish of mine met up with an early birthday present from...
View ArticleThe Stage Is Littered With Fragments of Shattered Expectations
There’s a whole set of expectations that accompany you, as an audience member, when you step into a theater. You’ll keep quiet during the performance. You won’t attempt to engage the actors in...
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Public Transit
This is about as deep as it gets around here until I finish the first draft of my book. Which, ya know, I'm okay with. We have so many Legos floating around this place.Also, I almost misspelled...
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My kid left a note for the Tooth Fairy...
...and this is what it said:Spelling translation: "I want to keep my tooth." Not sure what he intends to do with it, but then again, what does the Tooth Fairy do with them? Kind of a gross occupation...
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INT. - A STARBUCK’S IN A POSH PART OF TOWNThe joint’s packed with fancy folks. Lots of laptops, lots of bluetooths, lots of plastic surgery. The orders being placed and filled by the chipper baristas...
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What I Hear In My Head Every Time I Look At This Picture
We took los boyos to the Sherwood Forest Faire a while back...kind of a Renaissance Fair kind of thing. All I'm saying is, if you ever have the chance to enroll your kids in sword-fighting classes...
View ArticleThings I Won't Be Able To Do Forever, Episode 2387
The smaller kid rides on my back as I run through the yard. My oldest kid is hot on our tail. I can still outrun him, but he's gaining on me a little every day, plus I've got this shrieking leprechaun...
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Penny The Androgynous Robot
I found this sitting on the kitchen table one day when I came home from work. It's startled me how much I've been enjoying the art that my kids make, but this one in particular grabbed my attention. I...
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Because Noone Cheered Him Up
So I don't mean to turn this blog into "Yo, Peep My Kid's Artwork" dot com or anything - though that would undoubtedly make for a pretty good blog with tons of submissions - but this one really caught...
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Trying To Change The World
Adam Yauch aka MCA died today. He was 47 years old. I was sitting in Starbuck's when I read the news. It was all I could do to keep from crying in front of the whole damn shop. I loved the Beastie Boys...
View ArticleThis Time I Hit A Cow
My friend Daniel put up a story on Facebook the other day about how he almost drove his car into a cow. I left a comment saying that I actually did hit a cow once, to which Daniel responded asking for...
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Post-Apocalyptic Chess
My friendosauruses in Loaded Gun Theory wrote a new play, Our Apocalyptic Dream, which is going up in just a couple of weeks. They asked me to take a few scenes and comicify them as I am wont to do....
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If I'd thought about it, I would have posted this back around Mother's Day, but I didn't. And while it isn't quite as appropriate for Father's Day, I'm still pretty fond of it and thought I'd post it...
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