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Category Archives: 50,000–59,999

Parades

When I was leaving the zoo there was a parade going on at the amusement park.  Confetti was everywhere.  Characters vaguely resembling Disney counterparts were dancing and waving at all of the kids, a knock-off Cinderella rode by on a big float shaped like a dragon or something.  This guy was walking around.  I’m still trying to […]

SPAM

I was reading this week’s edition of The Onion, and it had an interview in the back (a real interview, not a satire) with the two authors of The Book of SPAM:  A Most Glorious and Definitive Compendium of The World’s Favorite Canned Meat.  One thing I thought was funny was that when asked if SPAM carried […]

Smokestacks

I went to New York this weekend, which was fun and very eventful in so many ways. I’ve never spent so many consecutive hours in Brooklyn. It was good. Real good.
Along the way there and back we drove past a lot of smokestacks and HAZMAT trucks. When I was in college I lived very close […]