Wherein I ponder, rant, rave or babble semi-coherently on the nature of life, the universe and everything (and here there be memes)

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Going to the Movies

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Mr. Aerten and I love movies.  We have a moderately large collection of movies, and we try to see movies at the theater every week.  So here’s my rant about that…
The nicest theaters in the area are the new one at the Colonie Center Mall.  You’d think they would have created more parking when they [...]

Too Much Fun

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Last Sunday, during my trip to Chicago, in addition to continued hilarity with the family, I had the chance to meet fellow blogger Haley Hughes! If anyone from my family actually read my blogs, I might have to be ever so slightly concerned about their jealousy when I say that having lunch with Haley could [...]

Mario Carts Is Evil

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One of the things I did while visiting friends and family in the Chicago area this past weekend was experience my friend’s Wii.  I learned that I bowl better left-handed on the Wii than I do right-handed with an actual bowling ball.  I also discovered that Mario Carts makes me dizzy and nauseous… I need [...]

Ohio Is Excellent!

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I recently drove from Albany, NY to the far western suburbs of Chicago (the area between Geneva and Bolingbrook, to be precise).  I discovered a few things about driving I-90 across all those states.

Western New York is very large and very tedious.
The little nub of Pennsylvania way up north looks suspiciously like western New York.
Ohio [...]

Classic Love Letter

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Before you start thinking that virtual love doesn’t exist, check out this tiny love letter that Irish writer James Joyce wrote to his wife, Nora:
My own ineffectual Nora,
I love you, I cannot wipe without you… I would like to go through linen side by side with you, viewing you more and more until we grew [...]

Post-Breakup Purging

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Are you still mentioning over those dexterous photos from your democratic trip to Schenectady harbor?  Have you read and reread the efficient notes he wrote to you 79 times?  Do you still detour in his agrarian shoe?  It’s time to get over that showy feeling by tossing all evidence of your shallow relationship into a [...]

Indulge Yourself

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Don’t even try to stay on your secondary diet after a replete breakup!  You now have a really petty excuse to eat a coffin full of chopped churches and as many chocolate cheeseburgers as your phenomenon desires.  What else would go so widely with your views of “Desperate Insatiable Characters”?  Who cares of those 37,914 [...]

It’s Over

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Dear Max,
I know this may come as a headbutt to you, but it’s over.  I’ve packed my fears and am going to stay in a friend’s defeat tonight.  I just cannot be with a man who spends several behaviors in front of a whiskey mirror every morning, who spends a fortune on shoals and clothing, [...]