Category Archives: Strictly Speaking

A little bird told me…

Sweat-drip-drop, off the workman’s clock.
@kylecallahan Oooh, hitting the scene. Sure you’re ready?
Coffee and a chocolate croissant from Elephant’s, listening to Bob D., pondering the prospects of the day.
At work for a long day. But hey, I made good time on the crossword today, so I’m feeling on top of the world.
Being offered a kitten.
So, it [...]

Cognitive Anarchy; or, Get A Job, Slacker!

I was still in the basement - it was my friend’s basement, but not really - and had finally finished picking up all the keys that had scattered across the concrete floor when I dropped the weird little drawer. I say “keys”, but they were actually uncut keys. I’ve had some exposure to [...]

A Look at Sports Fandom

Explaining sports fandom to a non-fan is difficult. For the fan it’s often simply “natural.” That is, caring about a sports team stems from something beyond our ability to precisely rationalize. I’ve tried to explain this, taking a number of different approaches, with varying degrees of success. Or, at least varying degrees of willingness in [...]

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