Tag: writing essential
member name: Greg Schiller
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July 02, 2007 05:30 PM EDT --
Reposted for Good Humor Monday
Trapped in the kitchen of a run down relative's house, I daydreamed myself free. They were my ex's family, hockey people; the kind of dullards who . . .
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November 06, 2007 07:29 PM EST --
Last Saturday, a Chevy Tahoe named “Boss” scored a $2 million prize by winning the DARPA “urban challenge”. Pretty good for a car without a driver.
The DARPA . . .
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November 27, 2008 11:09 AM EST --
No one described home better than the poet Robert Frost
In Death of the Hired Man , he wrote, "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
And so it . . .
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July 02, 2007 11:26 AM EDT --
Didn't see you on the bus yesterday.
Naw, I took the day off; had to go to court.
How come?
Ex-landlord refused to return my damage deposit.
You win?
Slam-dunk.
Good for you.
Typical crap, but . . .
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November 19, 2007 11:06 AM EST --
" What makes some of us tightwads and others spendthrifts?”
I still don't know, but American RadioWorks explored the question in a documentary titled Design . . .
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June 23, 2007 08:16 AM EDT --
Critique Welcome
A short story told in dialogue:
I need to be with her when she is put down.
Of course, but let me warn you that death does not always come peacefully . . .
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April 01, 2009 10:01 AM EDT --
Could there be an entry in the White House speech-writing stylebook that reads, "A paragraph anchored by an inference to "Global Warming" can state anything and still be credible with . . .
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October 14, 2007 12:44 PM EDT --
None of this is my fault.
FOXNEWS is calling it “The Payday Massacre”, like I'm some kind of gangster killer. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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November 12, 2007 11:40 AM EST --
Religion in America is in steep decline, and I know why. Simply gaze upon any church built after 1950, and you will know why too. Modern churches are ugly as sin, and so too is modern religion.
In . . .
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January 28, 2008 06:25 AM EST --
I bought something the other day I shouldn't have. It was a little thing, a memory chip for my camera, but it came in a large clam-shell package. I needed the chip, but I swore I would . . .
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November 21, 2007 06:28 PM EST --
Once upon a time, a wealthy couple lived in a quaint Tudor mansion on the better side of Beverly Hills with their only child, a daughter, upon whom they showered love and the best of everything.
As . . .
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December 10, 2007 06:22 AM EST --
San Francisco – The 9 th Circuit Court of Appeals remains mute over banning all use of language in official documents.
“ We see this as a victory” said Ms. Todavía . . .
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February 11, 2008 12:02 AM EST --
My brother is looking for a house. A month ago, he handed me a picture of a beautifully restored Victorian for $850,000. He teased "Should I buy it?"
It was the house we grew up . . .
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February 25, 2008 12:04 AM EST --
I pondered reincarnation the other day.
The reason was simple, I am the notorious procrastinator who neglected to empty the cat box on garbage day. Now both my wife and cat are making . . .
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November 05, 2007 03:25 PM EST --
Have you heard of "deer cams"?
Apparently, the antics of Paris, Lindsey and Britney are not enough, these days even wildlife is posing for cameras. Those of you who prudently . . .
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November 02, 2009 12:03 AM EST --
Friday evening at diner, my wife looked up from her plate and said, “Honey, let's go to IKEA tomorrow.”
Her suggestion landed like a bomb just south of the salad bowl, one that ticked while . . .
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December 08, 2008 12:48 PM EST --
We all have our morning rituals. Mine is waking up well before sunrise and padding into my home office to fire up the computer. While it struggles from slumber, I make coffee and argue with the cat. . . .
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November 26, 2007 05:00 PM EST --
I sit in a beige fabric cube. Across a beige carpet, sits another guy in a beige cube. He wears head-phones. I wear head-phones. We rarely speak.
There are three hanging steel . . .
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March 03, 2008 12:01 AM EST --
I was so sure I would win the lottery this weekend, I called the Lotto Office to ask for an advance.
Have you any idea how rude those Lotto people can be?
Anyway, think about it.
This weekend . . .
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July 28, 2008 02:34 PM EDT --
Good Morning.
I hope this Monday find you in good spirits. If not, cheer up, things could be a whole lot worse.
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On that score, I spent the weekend skimming a book on Communist Humor. . . .
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