The philosophy of woke is named for its inventor, Shilliam Wakespeare, who outlined it in The Shaming of the True. His other political works include a screed asserting that rural America deserved to have a drug crisis, titled Back Meth. He also wrote a polemic against abstinence-only education, The Virgin of Menace, although even he admitted that one was “a bit of a stretch”.
His non-political works are less celebrated. His most famous, The Pen Test, was dismissed as “unbearably dry”. When asked what he wanted to accomplish when he wrote it, he simply replied, “I haven’t the faintest inkling”.
Goodbye July 2026. Did I tell you that we finally saw Rush in concert? The show canceled on us on 6/24, then canceled again on 7/2, so we figured 7/13 would be the charm.
Geddy Lee sounded as good as someone his age who just got over laryngitis and bronchitis can sound. The acoustics in the venue were terrible however.
But my 20something son and I had a great time together. And considering we don’t see eye to eye on a lot of things, I’ll take all the good times with him I can get.
Hope everyone else had at least one good time this summer.
p.s. I’d tell the story of the DC road trip and the fireworks fiasco but it’d take too long.
We’re in eastern TN looking at houses this weekend. My daughter and her family moved here, and as my wife is retiring soon, we decided to move here. Despite our age, and despite having owned a house since 1990, we have no idea how to go about this process. We bought a FSBO and assumed their mortgage back then.
One thing I’ve learned is that I need to dial down the cranky old guy in me at open houses.
The philosophy of woke is named for its inventor, Shilliam Wakespeare, who outlined it in The Shaming of the True. His other political works include a screed asserting that rural America deserved to have a drug crisis, titled Back Meth. He also wrote a polemic against abstinence-only education, The Virgin of Menace, although even he admitted that one was “a bit of a stretch”.
His non-political works are less celebrated. His most famous, The Pen Test, was dismissed as “unbearably dry”. When asked what he wanted to accomplish when he wrote it, he simply replied, “I haven’t the faintest inkling”.
All of my inklings are as dark as the day I first dreamed them up…
Why do children and dogs insist upon leaving their nose and/or paw prints on my flat screen?
Goodbye July 2026. Did I tell you that we finally saw Rush in concert? The show canceled on us on 6/24, then canceled again on 7/2, so we figured 7/13 would be the charm.
Geddy Lee sounded as good as someone his age who just got over laryngitis and bronchitis can sound. The acoustics in the venue were terrible however.
But my 20something son and I had a great time together. And considering we don’t see eye to eye on a lot of things, I’ll take all the good times with him I can get.
Hope everyone else had at least one good time this summer.
p.s. I’d tell the story of the DC road trip and the fireworks fiasco but it’d take too long.
We’re in eastern TN looking at houses this weekend. My daughter and her family moved here, and as my wife is retiring soon, we decided to move here. Despite our age, and despite having owned a house since 1990, we have no idea how to go about this process. We bought a FSBO and assumed their mortgage back then.
One thing I’ve learned is that I need to dial down the cranky old guy in me at open houses.
Then how will you know “how much it’s gonna cost to heat a place like this?!?”.
Heat? We don’t need no stinkin’ heat.
(In reality, we keep the temp at 58 overnight and raise it to a balmy 62 during the day.)