Dr. Seuss would have turned 115 on March 2, 2015. Not coincidentally, one of his more obscure but nonetheless beloved characters celebrates the 49th anniversary of his birth this very same day. As the good doctor wrote about this uniquely Seussian character, “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.”
Our goal is to keep doing this blog long enough that we have enough content that recurs on a specific day to cover the entire year, thusly pre-filling our editorial calendar. We're getting there.
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thanks, brithday weekend! alex was 15 yesterday and i am 49 today . . . and we got birthday snow, so i might get the gift of not having to run indoor practice. my brain feels 27 and my knees feel 90.
zman, you barfed IN pete and elda's? that's a family joint! like slammin' sammy's . . .
Too much beer and pizza. It was like Mrs. Morgan’s beans all over again.
Happy birthday, Dave.
That Drive-By Truckers book is back up for sale if anyone is interested.
just finished "marching powder." great story, mark is two for two with book recs. a lot of pressure on this next rec. i hope he doesn't blow it . . .
I just cleared off my cars and blew the driveway and walkway free of snow. I then removed the wiper arm assembly from our station wagon (I replaced it two weekends ago because our babysitter turned on the wipers while they were buried in ice and warped the motor housing, throwing the wiper arm assembly into a tizzy), modified it so it wouldn’t get stuck under the hood anymore (this involved shaving part of the arm down with a hack saw and a fair amount of elbow grease), and reattached it to the car. Problem solved. The other solutions would’ve been to realign the hood or dive in behind the upper fascia to realign the motor, both of which involve a lot of time and effort so I went with the ugly but efficient hacksaw approach.
I’m telling you this with the hope that someone will be impressed, unlike zwoman who is remarkably blasé about my efforts this morning.
By “driveway”, you meant neighbor, right?
Is that why she’s blasé?
i think you're kind of a stud, z. no idea what's wrong with the zwoman.
nice job zman! i've been putting off replacing my shoddy wipers for a year now but your manliness has motivated me to start thinking about maybe doing something soon. last weekend, i replaced a crazy folding hinge on a kitchen cabinet (but i still haven't vacuumed the dog hair out of my wife's car). pinos tonight for birthday drinks, if anyone is in the vicinity . . .
my wife will be in tinton falls. i'll tell her to come over. she'll have cheerleaders with her.
Tinton Falls! New Jersey doesn’t get more average than that.
But it’s only 5 mins from Pete & Elda’s!
It’s snowing up there? I went to the beach today. It was beautiful and in the mid 80s.
As for my book recommendations, I read a lot. I just don’t brag about it like Dave.
Thanks guys, I feel better now. And to be clear, I didn’t change the wiper blade, I changed the wiper arm, which is the thing that connects the blade to the car and moves it back and forth. And I had to modify it to make it work. I’m like Click and Clack ovah heyah!
Fuck baseball math and Mark.
life is too short not to brag about reading. tinton falls is my wife's hometown! i won't even touch the cheerleader comment.
also, the foam stuff around my van door came loose a couple days ago and was just hanging there. i shoved it back onto the track. it seems to be staying in place.
That hurts. Words hurt, Z. I will no longer subscribe to your newsletter.
Dave, don’t touch anything cheerleader-related.
Mini summit in progress in Loudoun County. Rob, KQ, Mr. KQ. I’m trying not to pee on myself.
Does “mini” refer to somebody’s stature?
Wife and I had our anniversary on Tuesday. Ditched the kids and celebrated today. She celebrated a little too much this afternoon and couldn’t quite rally from the late afternoon nap enough to hande the nice dinner we planned. So we went to the local brewpub for drinks and food. They had a limited time Mardi Gras menu so it was probably supposed to work out this way.
And now she’s snoring on the couch.
I think any summit or mini-summit whose participants are all in bed before midnight is, in fact, not one.
Agreed. A summit that doesn’t push until the AM is not a summit at all.
Shout out to Marls, Greg and I trying to break into Union Station at 2:30 am on the night of TJ’s wedding.
Mini summit still in progress. Dave is in bed in NJ.
It’s midnight and officially KQ’s birthday.
A summit isn’t a summit without stepping to the AM, is that what you meant to say?
wife and i actually made it out until midnight. then we stayed up even later watching "russian doll." i'm starting to like that show, but it takes a bunch of episodes for it to differentiate itself from "groundhog's day."
My wife bought steak for me to grill for dinner. Pretty sweet for me b/c a blizzard is coming at 4 PM.
Celtics continue to be a dumpster fire. So fun to watch.
Does Ray Felton have a 38” waist? He is a fatty.
The 2018 World Series of Darts is on the 11 World Sports HD channel. It was held in Auckland, NZ and is sneaky captivating.
Will check it out. I always like to marvel at people who are aces at leisure sports.
John Oliver still crushing it
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