If You Lived Here…

… you’d be using one of these to make your coffee:

Okay, well, technically you can get American-style coffee makers now, in the big electronics stores. I have no idea where you’d find the ground coffee for them though.

Our little caffettiera is a bit different from the [...]

A Tale of Two… Tales

I took another break from blogging this past week in order to deal with some more fun bureaucratic tomfoolery. Because around here, taxes don’t take a day, but a week to file. Or two.

And this brings me to my story. Or stories, I should say.

Here, a lot of your filing and enthusiastic [...]

Picture for a Bad Day

On bad days, the most I can do is a 5-minute sketch or something ridiculous using Paint.

Today was a bad day so you get a Paint picture. With the solution to all my problems, no less.

I think we can all agree that this position cannot be achieved by human beings. I mean, [...]

Don't Try This At Home. Or Anywhere, Really

You know those days when it feels like something’s not working for you? Those days when you really want to change something, right now?

Listen to me, my child: move some furniture around. For the love of God, don’t do what I did.

Feeling impulsive, I decided to break with my tradition of cutting [...]

Dear Weather: You Are Fired

Dear Recent Weather,

We have noticed that it has been especially cold, dark and rainy since October of last year. This means that we have had over 7 months of crappy weather to date.

While it is perfectly natural and expected that we would have crappy weather from November through mid-March (that is, [...]