Crazy Talk and Sometimes Socks
Unless you’ve just now woken up from a coma of indeterminate duration and find yourself in a strange health-care facility without any idea of where you are or how you got there, chances are me pointing out that 2013 has but one full calendar day remaining is not so much skirting the obvious as it … Continue reading New Year’s Obligations
It all started innocently enough. We are T-minus 2 hours to the office Christmas party. I'll be tweeting nonsense for the rest of day following. A warning, you haz it.— Jason A. Rust (@jasonarust) December 23, 2013 Not long after that, though, there were ominous portents, as seen here. While the contents of that bottle … Continue reading What I did on Christmas staycation
Since we’re all hip-deep in holiday freakin’ cheer at this point, bloggers across the sticky interwebs are following the annual tradition of mailing it in. The calendar is speeding toward that magical date of 1/1/2014, after which we’ll all have a week to post ad naseum about our hopeless-slash-pointless-slash-obvious resolutions for the coming year. Of … Continue reading The Obligatory List: 5 Holiday Albums No One Needs
If you're of the "Dude, where you been at the last few days" frame of mind, I am here to shed glorious light into the shadowy recesses of your questioning. On Monday and most of Tuesday, I was in beautiful Denton, TX (and by "beautiful", I mean "North Texas-y"). A customer for the day job … Continue reading Sometimes, Duty Calls
I guess I promised I’d do this from time to time, and since I have nothing else of any real value to say today (as opposed to all those other days when I write ramblings of things obviously Laden With Portent), I figured why not actually follow through for once. So, let’s chat briefly about … Continue reading Friday Fiction: Looking back at “An Unexpected Guest”
There once was a month named December,With more To-Dos in it than I could remember!So in a list, I wrote them down,But it’s length made me frown.So I torched that thing into an ember!
Two hours ago, my backyard looked like this. Also, this. I assure you it’s under several more inches of fluffy cold stuff by now. And, yes, that is snow falling so quickly in front of the lens that it appears to be nothing more than streaky flashes. That is, streaking flashes of snowflakes which is … Continue reading Frosty Friday is Fabulous
The fall 2013 television season seemed to start with all kinds of promise for me. A Dracula! An Ichabod Crane! The Marvel Mo-Fo Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. How could I not set my DVR to RECORD ALL, and then sit back and wile away the late evening hours glued to those bright, beautiful 42 inches of … Continue reading It’s not you, Television, it’s me
Imagine my complete and utter disbelief when I realized yesterday that it’s been an entire week since I posted anything here. Quite frankly, I should be ashamed of myself. I mean, going a full week without so much as a stick figure drawing or a haiku is a level of laziness tantamount to hiding in … Continue reading Uh oh, it’s Magic
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