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Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 9 months ago.
The gentlemen to the left there is the great American mythical figure Paul Bunyan. This gigantic likeness of the legendary logger appears outside his namesake restaurant, Paul Bunyan's Cook Shanty, in Wisconsin Dells, Wisc. I was in The Dells last weeke...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 10 months ago.
I am blessed. I am loved. I am happy.But there are times in my mostly charmed life when a succession of events brought on by my paraplegia annoy me, then frustrate me, then anger me, then send me to the brink of despair. Maybe it's my feet swelling to ...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 10 months ago.
It is perhaps fitting that the night I renewed my commitment to writing, I had a fabulously detailed dream. In it, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, TV’s “Mythbusters,” approached with the news they had developed a part-hovercraft, part-airboat specia...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 10 months ago.
Once upon a time, there was this thing called a blog. Although still practiced by some of the more dedicated and better paid citizen journalists, blogging is, for many, a discarded literary form that could be spoken of in the same breath as the Smith Coro...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 3 years ago.
Gather round, children, and I will share with you a cautionary tale of the dangers of pride, unbounded optimism and an overdeveloped sense of ethics. As those of you who have stuck with the blog from the beginning know, March is the traditional time I...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 3 years ago.
I had a sweetheart of a railing against society post ready to roll and I still will be rolling it out in the next few days. But a funny thing happened on the way to the righteous indignation entry. I had the occasion to thank two people today. Ea...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 4 years ago.
My deepest apologies to Robert Frost.We're expected to get 5 to 8 inches of snow tonight, so I decided to beat the worst of the accumulation by taking off work early. That plus my flex day off tomorrow will allow me to hide from the white stuff until Sun...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 4 years ago.
So I'm reading MSNBC.com's Cosmic Log today when I come across this bit of news:A colossal cloud of gas is racing toward a collision with our galaxy, and when it hits, the crash could trigger an intense burst of star formation.Now, this is really cool. O...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 4 years ago.
The obvious question particularly to those who only know me through this blog, and I imagine that may be one or two of you is where the hell have I been Just to give you a recap, since the date of my last post, I've been in the hospital, gotten ou...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 4 years ago.
Ok, so I decided not to change the format of this blog, but to open up another one instead. It's called "The Perfect Headline," and I already have a healthy number of posts. So check it out!The premise: some headlines are so great, you don't want to read ...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 4 years ago.
I thought my blogging output would increase when I finally had a PC at home. Unfortunately, the opposite has been the case. I have several legitimate excuses: longer work hours, busier after-work schedule, spending my after-work wiritng time on actual p...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 4 years ago.
Yes, it's been three months since I posted. I haven't been particularly inspired to foist my opinions on the world -- mainly because I haven't had any really strong ones. But boy, am I coming back swinging.It seems a newspaper reporter has been chastene...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 4 years ago.
Hmmmm ... it's been a while, hasn't it Let's eas back into this blogging thing.
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 4 years ago.
If you're not a Dolphin fan, you may want to stop reading. But I am, and today was a rather significant day for the franchise. (Please note: the following essay assumes the reported release of Randy McMichael is a done deal.***First it was Jeno James, K...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 4 years ago.
If you're not a Dolphin fan, you may want to stop reading. But I am, and today was a rather significant day for the franchise. (Please note: the following essay assumes the reported release of Randy McMichael is a done deal.***First it was Jeno James, K...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 4 years ago.
Sorry for my autobiographical constipation, dear readers. I'm about to let my vowels loose to try and make up for it.First-up, as a public service, I present my "American Idol" Bottom-Line Recap for Feb. 20, 2007. It was the first Guys' Night Out, and...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 4 years ago.
Sorry for my autobiographical constipation, dear readers. I'm about to let my vowels loose to try and make up for it.First-up, as a public service, I present my "American Idol" Bottom-Line Recap for Feb. 20, 2007. It was the first Guys' Night Out, and...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 5 years ago.
I love watching politicians making fools of themselves.Senator Joe Biden today showed why he is more renown for stealing others words than for the quality of his own because of comments he made to the New York Observer, in which he said Barack Obama: "I ...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 5 years ago.
Tonight, I am going to see this person in concert.The reason for this is that my mother, whose birthday is in 13 days, is a huge fan of the aforementioned comic (in fact, I believe he is her favorite comedian), and I wanted to give her something nice for ...
Posted by Graduate Level Sykesology 5 years ago.
It's been awhile since I was this excited over a musical discovery. Ladies and gentlemen, Imogen Heap.She's nominated for Best New Artist this year (though she hasn't a chance at winning, sadly). And she brings to the table a lot of my favorite musical ...
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