To: My Email Correspondents From: DrHGuy Re: O Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay! Posting Your inferences regarding the Spring Break reference and the exclamatory quality of the title of last night’s posting notwithstanding, clicking on the photo will not cause the shorts to drop, a bulge to appear, or any appendages to pop up. On the [...]
Entries from March 31st, 2006
Addendum To Preceding Posting (O Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay!)
March 31st, 2006 · Comments Off · HOAG Site, Self-Referential
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O Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay!
March 30th, 2006 · Comments Off · Local
30 March 2006: Chicagoland Meets Operational Criterion For Spring Break
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The Pop Culture Canary Just Swooned: Pig-Kissing Principals
March 30th, 2006 · Comments Off · Fascinations
In The Beginning Try as I might I cannot conjure up the scene when some guy (I’m pretty sure this is a guy thing) first said to himself, “I bet grade school kids would read a bunch of books if their principal promised to kiss a pig.” Principal Kisses Pig has, in fact, become so [...]
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This Is How A Love Story Began
March 29th, 2006 · Comments Off · Julie's Story
This is how a love story began. I have no advice to give or insight to impart. I have no illusion that writing this will help me, let alone anyone else, understand how people fall in love and stay in love. There is no redemption or even self-improvement to be garnered from reading this. And [...]
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The Stunt Man – Mulitple Realities & Illusions
March 28th, 2006 · Comments Off · Media
Seeing The Stunt Man Again For The First Time I suspect the most frequent (and reasonable) response to the recommendation that a given movie requires more than a single viewing would be an anguished expression of incredulity with second place going to a begrudging “maybe” attached to multiple qualifiers (for example, “Maybe, if the movie [...]
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Keeping Teachers Out Of School Supply Stores
March 27th, 2006 · Comments Off · Fascinations
The Ideal Gift For Teachers My mother’s stash of Avon products having been finally depleted, I am searching for an appropriate teacher appreciation gifts. After careful consideration, I have come to realize that (1) the best gift is something the recipient needs and (2) what teachers need most is protection – from themselves. Economically Self-Destructive [...]
Nothing Ever Had To Happen The Way It Happened
March 26th, 2006 · Comments Off · Madeleines
Introduction To The Task At Hand Despite the category assignment for this post, it is not so much a self-sufficient madeleine as, say, frosting on a madeleine – except that, as far as I can determine, frosting is not an adornment of proper madeleines. It’s wretchedly tricky to construct an operational cuisine-dependent metaphor when ones [...]
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Prodigal Demonstrates A Fishy Recipe: Dishwasher Salmon
March 25th, 2006 · Comments Off · Aha! Items, Fascinations
Three males bunking in the same home is a formula for all manner of weirdness. In the kitchen, for example, Da Boyz are fearless, and I am a more or less willing co-conspirator. Consequently, it may not surprise the attentive reader to discover that this afternoon, Prodigal Son prepared Dishwasher Salmon while I shot the [...]
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Spring Break 2006: Chicagoland Version
March 24th, 2006 · Comments Off · Local
Both photos were taken, alas, this morning in the Heck Of A House back yard.
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Yet Another Thing I Like About The NCAA Basketball Tournament
March 24th, 2006 · Comments Off · Fascinations
The Duke Loss & The DrHGuy Family Following Duke’s loss last night, the Prodigal Son & I were bummed about Duke’s non-stellar performance and the game’s outcome. Being younger, more resilient, and the poster child for ADHD, he zipped through the grieving process, skipping Steps #2 and #4 altogether, and was emotionally re-acclimated for the [...]
