September 2006

The Archives

• Music

  Violence S. Eyeballs

  09.23.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  The other day at work Minor Threat’s “In My Eyes” came on the ipod. While listening I knew I had heard a cover of this song recently but couldn’t remember who. However, I didn’t fret; as James Fallows wrote in the most recent Atlantic Monthly: “In one way I know of, the Internet has improved […]

• Work

  Hold On

  09.20.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  If I’m listening to music here at work, I’ll naturally take my headphones off when I notice someone entering my cubicle.  There is one woman who, when she enters, waits until she sees that she’s got my attention, then starts talking.  Which is pointless because at that point I’m just taking the headphones off.  I […]

• Walks with the dogs

  Dahlias

  09.19.06 | Permalink | Comment?

   Dahlias as purchased on a walk with the dogs yesterday: We saw them passing by a house with a large sign in its garden, “Hothouse Dahlias”, and a couple of buckets of cut flowers on the fence, payment by the honor system. So, a present for the Mrs. Coincidentally the movie The Black Dahlia is […]

• General

  First!

  09.18.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Thanks to my sister, Caitlin Morais ,the GIS Queen of Los Angeles, I now have this snazzy website at which to post the inanities which occur to me.  So, henceforth, here it shall all be writ.

G.E. Dempsey