You may have felt it before… maybe a small tinge or a depth of indignation. You’re stopped at a traffic light or stop sign. Then all of the sudden, you see a white thing flicked out of the window from the car in front of you. How can this be? Who in the world would [...]
Archive for the ‘Suburbia’ Category
Cigarette Out the Window
Posted in Living, Suburbia on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Auto-maker rescue
Posted in Miscellany, Suburbia, Techie on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Help me. I really don’t get this one. Here’s the deal: auto-makers like, oh, say… GM, make big-inefficient-gas-guzzling-truck-cars. Their entire business model is built around selling such things. Their entire profit structure revolves around people’s gullibility to buy such things. Here are the lies: buy them because they’re safer, or handle better, or go through [...]
Water the Driveway
Posted in Suburbia on June 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Suburbia… land of waste and want. Barren, soulless and lifeless, except for lawns which are high on Tru-Green. What better thing to do on a hot afternoon than water the driveway? And maybe, just maybe, get some on the drug-crazed lawn. That’s what you’ll see walking around a suburban neighborhood. That’s what you’ll wonder about [...]
Annual rite of spring
Posted in Suburbia on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It happens every year. The annual burn out or burn off or ultimate stupidity. Whatever you call it, the practice is mind boggling. It is the annual rite of, you guessed it, running your snow blower until all the leftover gas is used up. What a truly bizarre site it is to see all those [...]
