Just heard an ad on the radio for a legal firm who says they “focus on winning, and winning big.”
I’m picturing all the other law firms hearing this and thinking “Why didn’t WE think of that?!?”
Pantry management for time travelers
Another of life’s complications for time travelers: managing food items in the pantry and refrigerator.
“May 2017. Wait. Has that happened yet?”
Today’s nature report
The crocuses in bloom yesterday are closed against the cooler breezes of today. In the branches above, the birds are gossiping.
Best fish fry in Central New York?
Judge’s Choice for best fish fry in Central New York?
Rudy’s. Of course.
Upstate New York’s best fish fry: And the winners are…
My next million dollar idea
My next idea to make a fortune: you’ve seen the ads for shirts designed to be worn untucked, right? How about a really LONG shirt so it doesn’t matter if you’re even actually wearing pants to tuck them into (or not)?
Instead of a nightshirt, I’ll call it a dayshirt.
You saw it here first.
Beat the clock!
Just saw a plot description about a kidnapped scientist and a rescue team trying to beat the clock, and I thought, just rescue the scientist and leave the poor clock alone!
Denude and deprivation
The word of the night is deprivation.
Deprivation reminds me of another recent word, denude. If privation is the lack of essentials, shouldn’t DEprivation mean the removal from that condition?
IMpure evil
A movie trailer has a character described as “pure evil.”
Now I want to write a character of impure evil. She’ll kill you, but you can fool around a little first.
If you’re looking for the Super Bowl…
I don’t know how to break it to you other than to just say it:
Super Bowl LI is NOT being played in Long Island, as you might have thought.
Let them think you were born that way.
”It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
~ Ernest Hemingway