Dear George, I just wanted to drop you a line and say thank you for my $300 stimulus check. I paid my power bill, renewed my license tag and driver's license, and I have almost enough left for three-quarters of a tank of gas. Lots of people really don't like you. They call you names like "idiot,"...
Do I prefer adulthood or childhood? I don't know! I know I like reading about other people's childhoods, which is why I've got a zillion copies of And There Was Light and have a crazy fascination with all the books I read and wanted to read as a child. It's why I buy Chalet School books (but Jesus,...
Some of you may be familiar with P.D.Q. Bach, the parody composer thought up by Peter Schickele as an ongoing satire on Baroque and classical music. Schickele wrote a number of compositions, which he claims to have "discovered", that are published under the name of P.D.Q. Bach. The story of P.D.Q.,...
Today I decided to do a little something different. In honor of the millions of people who generally have a loathing for this week I'm blogging about a few gems from the great Tom Lehrer. For the uninitiated, Way back during the 50's, 60's, and even a bit of the 70's, Lehrer wrote a number of...
I just finished up a school year of serving as the night host at a science camp. This meant getting the campers (somewhere between 100 and 200 fifth or sixth graders) to bed at night and then getting them up in the morning, and of course taking care of any emergencies in between. What's the best way...
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