Tag Archives: Jackson

Pumbled

Jackson is a remarkably articulate 10-year-old, in my not-even-trying-to-be-unbiased opinion, but he still stumbles over words occasionally. Naturally, the way he stumbles reveals a deeper genius. I’m not saying I’m responsible for his genius, I’m just saying I’ve noticed it. … Continue reading

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Winter sky

This may be a bad idea, but I’m going to try to post every weekday of 2012. So, yeah. How about that! (The exit is behind you, try not to knock anything over on the way out.) New Year’s Resolutions … Continue reading

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Welcome the Christmas Dick

I’d woken up feeling shaky and nauseated the day before Christmas. I honestly didn’t think I’d had that much to drink the night before, just some champagne after work. I’d been sober enough to read 15 pages of The Hobbit … Continue reading

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Day Twenty-eight

Me: “You’re weird.” Jackson: “Weird means oddly fantastic.” Me: “It does?” Jackson: “We looked it up in my class.” Me: “So I can’t call you weird?” Jackson: “No, Mom. Grammar. People are weirdos.” And he says he hates school.

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Day Fifteen

Draw a squirrel choking a chipmunk. Why does the chipmunk look like Hitler? Put sunglasses on the squirrel! Put a fedora on the squirrel. Now give him a beard. Let me do something to the chipmunk! *Adds little mustache* Yes, … Continue reading

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An Idea, an Announcement, and a Raffle!

First of all, every time I get into my car I have to hook up my iPhone to the car’s cassette adapter so I can listen to music or podcasts or whatever, and every time I do that I think, … Continue reading

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and it’s also true that I lost the map

First of all, if you’re actually visiting fussy.org and not reading this through a feed reader, you’ll have noticed two new badges up in the sidebar. One is for The Popcorn Whisperer, the weekly movies-and-TV column I’m doing for Babble, … Continue reading

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Beached

Of all the sand that exists in the world, half of it is in my house. One sixth of all the sand in the world is at the beach; one third is in the various deserts you can see from … Continue reading

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This is probably true

Probably the most useful instruction I’ve gotten in recent years as a traditionally employed human being who deals with the public is this: “Everybody lies.” Especially when confronted, no matter how gently, with a mistake they’ve made, no matter how … Continue reading

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I am tired

I’ve decided to continue ignoring Flickr and keep posting MY random photographs here on MY site. I don’t care if it’s inconvenient for everyone to have to come over to MY SITE to see MY THINGS. I don’t care if … Continue reading

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