Tag: living
member name: John Philipp
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December 14, 2009 12:11 AM EST --
Strange things happen in hard economic times, things we often miss because we are too occupied trying to keep our houses and our jobs and our high score on "Ridge Racer V" at ArcadeZilla. OK, . . .
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December 06, 2009 11:56 PM EST --
Thanksgiving's long over yet leftovers linger — not only in your fridge but in my notes. I always have more items than I can use in a column and sometimes these items are funny but not something . . .
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February 13, 2007 03:07 PM EST --
Do you use your computer or does your computer use you? The answer depends on when you were born and is what I'm calling, because no one has ever given it a name, Technological . . .
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February 26, 2007 06:52 PM EST --
"Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug." John Lithgow
As I get older, my general physique seems to be broadening and my skin is stretching out to, well, . . .
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June 03, 2008 07:03 PM EDT --
( This article was published over a year ago, shortly after Stephanie Moore died, when I didn't know many people on gather. Several friends asked me to republish it. )
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May 26, 2008 05:17 PM EDT --
This Monday the Humor Gang slowed down a little probably because it's
Memorial Day and a holiday — and possibly because I didn't remind them. We are . . .
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August 04, 2008 05:11 PM EDT --
Welcome to Humor Monday Update.
Not only are there plenty of posts here to get your week off to an amusing start, there is excellent prose and poetry as . . .
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October 19, 2008 11:45 PM EDT --
Don’t take life too seriously , or so they say. What if you got to Heaven and found yourself in a comedy competition with ten other candidates? The rules: the humor has to be true; losers . . .
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October 28, 2008 01:55 PM EDT --
(I published this column in 2006. This year there’s another pumpkin shortage in certain areas and I thought this might be appropriate reading this week.)
Good grief, Charlie Brown, there’s . . .
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March 14, 2008 02:44 PM EDT --
I usually post my own writing, normally a stab at humor.
This is to mention an article not by me and not humorous but, I think, a "must read" for parents and grandparents.
It will explain . . .
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November 22, 2009 11:52 PM EST --
Last week I carried a sign. It was a political sign. Not one to end a war or allow or disallow abortions or to legalize California's largest cash crop. The sign I carried had a name on it, a person . . .
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October 18, 2009 11:57 PM EDT --
Living next to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area has advantages: beautiful views, pristine nature and an opportunity to interact with the local fauna. When the Park Service sent out the . . .
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November 02, 2009 08:09 AM EST --
Everyone dislikes lawyers, even other lawyers. I used to think lawyers were below Bush in popularity because they were sniveling, money-grubbing heartless scavengers who feed off the baser instincts . . .
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May 30, 2008 01:46 PM EDT --
The living room wasn't for children. It was a sanctuary for adults to do adult things like read the New York Times with Bach in the background.
Oh, children were allowed to enter, just not remain. . . .
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December 10, 2007 12:00 AM EST --
"If you want to write a novel, here's my advice: lock up your characters at night."
Most writers by now know what NaNoWriMo means: National Novel Writing . . .
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November 19, 2007 12:37 AM EST --
"If a man talks in the forest, and no woman is there, is he still wrong?"
A while ago I wrote an article entitled "What color is a choking Smurf and other . . .
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November 21, 2007 12:14 AM EST --
"How'd you like this drumstick up your nose?"
What really happened at the first Thanksgiving? You think you know because of that mental snapshot you've been carrying in your mind . . .
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November 26, 2007 12:05 AM EST --
"The only other visible proof of manhood available is illegal except on a few designated beaches."
I'm growing a beard for my Christmas trip east this year, not because of any Santa . . .
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December 16, 2007 11:59 PM EST --
Soon your cat may tell you what she's thinking.
My cat and I have had a gentlemen's agreement for years. I feed her and occasionally offer valet service . . .
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December 31, 2007 12:01 AM EST --
"The range of behaviors I imagine existed in the Coliseum's Green Room just before the Christians were introduced to the lions."
God, don't you tire of lines? Beloved . . .
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