A few days ago, when I let it slip on this site that my dapper young companion, the accomplished local puppeteer Patrick Elkins, was himself in fact an automaton, which I’d created from a found beard, a magical top hat, and the rusted-out shell of my former mentor’s daughter Vicki, I received an email from […]
Last night, as we set out to relocate this site at its new home in the upper atmosphere, I told you that you could take 48 hours off. I had been told, by our technical team, that the migration would likely take that long, and, during that time, the site would be completely dead. As […]
A few days ago, I had a post here about a bar in Orlando that I went to with my family that was full of animatronic dinosaurs. Well, I mentioned at the end of that particular piece that I was concerned that, based upon this experience, my daughter might get the impression that bars were […]
AnnArbor.com has a piece by Tom Perkins today on Sandee, Bill and Andy French and their plans to franchise the popular Depot Town restaurant Aubree’s. I’d known that they had aspirations in this direction for a while now, but I had no idea how serious they were about it. According to the article, they even […]
It’s being reported that a few days ago, Senator Jim DeMint, as he addressed a church group in South Carolina, stated that gay men and sexually-active, unmarried women should not be allowed to teach our children. Fortunately for DeMint, though, it looks as though there may be a cost-effective alternative to those all-to-common Social Studies […]
