Author Archives: Joel

I want my beautiful weather back! It’s been such a seemingly endless stream of golden days in the 70’s, that a rainy/cold April day feels like a personal insult. I’m sitting in the Lair bundled in my thickest hoodie, rubbing … Continue reading →

Cory Doctorow [T]hose are the elements that make it a thought experiment, the parts that are… kind of metaphoric, or read as analogy. “Assume you can do these obviously impossible things—what would fall out of it?” … And then that … Continue reading →

I looked it up on Forgotten Weapons later, and it’s confirmed: The Last T-Rex did not in fact serve in WWI.

Mesdames, Messieurs, bonsoir! Our entrée for today is… Now, I’ll be totally honest with you – I don’t even know what Shrimp Creole is. So I looked it up… Shrimp creole is a dish of Louisiana Creole origin, consisting of … Continue reading →

Then you need Carrier Shield! Yes, Carrier Shield! It’s a patent-pending sticker for the rear window of your car, to inform that cop who just pulled you over for your broken tail light that he’s dealing with an armed idiot! … Continue reading →

…is my little juniper grove. That’s all one tree. It’s very old. Junipers live a long time by dying in spots and growing new spots, and when I first came to the hollow this was all a big tangle of … Continue reading →

After all I’ve only known them for six or eight years. No point rushing into these things. Not counting Landlady and Ian who are kind of special cases, D&L are my closest friends in the gulch. They gave me keys … Continue reading →

Knowing you just paid $130 for a shovel. But wait! There’s more! This isn’t just any shovel, you mall ninjas. This is the tacticalest shovel in the entire physical universe. Includes Over 12 tools & carry bag: Shovel Axe Hammer … Continue reading →

We had an impressive windstorm yesterday afternoon, gusting to a full gale on the ridgetops. Often an afternoon windstorm means a change of weather, but April windstorms generally just mean it’s April. I didn’t give it much thought. So naturally … Continue reading →

MJR sent me a link to this, with the note “Look at the money you are saving by doing what you do.” Swallow any coffee that may be present before clicking that link, you have been warned.

…if it weren’t a gun-free paradise? I don’t know which is more appalling: The casualty rate so far this year, or the fact that they’re actually a little behind the curve from last year! The number of people shot in … Continue reading →

Boy, I’ve gotten older in the past eight or ten years. I have a cache up in canyon country that I haven’t visited in quite a while. It’s a last-ditch emergency cache, having nothing to do with natural emergencies like … Continue reading →

Not that there’s anything wrong with that, he added hastily. And not that we hear the phrase “free country” much anymore anyway…

It’s a windy season in a windy place. Walking with Little Bear, I’m always looking for blown trash that needs to be carried back to the Lair. Today on the noontime walkie I saw a bit of blue paper… Must … Continue reading →

What a beautiful day. By nine it was t-shirt weather, which meant let’s do a couple of laundry loads… It takes a restful hour to go through a couple of buckets of laundry, and this will probably be the first … Continue reading →

How did Cuomo make $783,000 on memoir that sold 3,200 copies? In all, Cuomo has made $783,000 from HarperCollins for his book. The book sold 3,200 copies since it was published in the fall of 2014, according to tracking company … Continue reading →

Let’s turn this over to our Poet Laureate… “I’m getting tired of that shit. Tired of that shit. I’m tired of f*cking Earth Day, I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong … Continue reading →

This is the third time it’s happened in April alone; it’s a traveling month for S&L and every time they load up the car Ghost gets relegated to Uncle Joel’s Cabin. Which he has decided he hates, at least relative … Continue reading →

I don’t remember where I found this. For the record I believe this tactic is illegal in Alberta so don’t get caught.

Bill O’Reilly Paid Up to $25 Million in Fox News Exit Deal That is equivalent to one year of a rich new four-year deal that O’Reilly finalized earlier this year. The network and its parent company, 21st Century Fox, completed … Continue reading →