The “Not-Much-Fun” Activity Guide.

Lots of people are under house arrest and when you were at work, well, you knew what to do with idle time, but now what? You can’t have fun because yer supposed to be at work. And you can’t just do more of what you did before Corvid or what you did on weekends – things like drinking, smoking, listening to loud rock music and using profanity. Some of you probably dig video games or golfing every day or watching SportsCenter for hours or maybe cruising the Worldwide Interweb for inappropriate purposes. But now you can’t do any of those things because: A) you’re supposed to be at work, remember? B) you may want to stay married (why is beyond me) and in a good marriage happiness is only doled out in small doses and C) all that fun stuff takes dough, and the only thing that sucks more than being bored is being broke and bored.

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Life’s Important Debates.

So there’s only one person left on Gilligan’s Island. If you had Ginger in the castaways’ pool, then congrats. TV was better when there were only five or six channels and everyone huddled around the set on a Wednesday night to watch seven knuckleheads on a desert island trying to get reception from a radio made out of a coconut. But the real legacy of a show like Gilligan’s Island is that the two single girls on the show gave rise to one of the most important debates in popular culture.

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Conversations With Angie

It’s no scientific revelation that humans and animals can converse. In the case of dogs, a bark or a whine, a wag of the tail or a certain posture, a turn of the head or a nervous scratch can communicate very specific messages that humans can interpret as two-way dialogue.

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