Friday, June 11, 2021

Star Power

 Will Aaron Rodgers play another snap for the Green Bay Packers?


I hope not.


I get that it's professional football. It's a job like any other that pays you in millions, and you don't have to love something just because you do it well, but…


Seriously dude; why are you playing football?

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Cryptic

I'm reminded that Sir Isaac Newton wasn't knighted for his many contributions to science and apple picking; he became Sir Isaac because of his work standardizing Great Britain's currency.


Money. We've always thought it was more important than gravity. Or math. Or the universe.


How many bitcoin in a shilling? Or is that how many shillings in a bitcoin?

Monday, June 7, 2021

Strangers

Did some people have mothers who didn't tell them, "Don't talk to strangers?"

Sunday, June 6, 2021

Monster Lovers

I feel like I'm a little bit late to this party - it seems so obvious now - but have you noticed how in every monster movie ever made there's always one character (more often than not the mad scientist to blame for whatever it was that happened in Act 1) who wants to save the monster? They want to stop the shrinking number of humans involved in the narrative from killing it, figure out some way to communicate with it, study it, reanimate the flesh of a dead woman to provide the monster with a mate, maybe move it to a small farm in upstate Vermont.


I'm more of a nuke the site from orbit kind of guy.

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

We Always Need the Rain

Drunk with the storm

The trees

Full of green

Bend and sway in the wind

As if choreographed by Twyla Tharp

Soft then sharp

The leaves make jazz hands

Connected then separate then connected

Partners then soloists then partners again


Birds take shelter

Puffed out balls of feathers 

In the broken flower pots

That sit in the corner of the back porch

The birdfeeder is empty

Rain water rattles through the gutters


Unheard by the sullen birds

A voice says, "We need the rain"


We always need the rain

It gives the trees a chance to dance