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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I always get a chuckle out of the claims that a story is “inspired”’ by actual events. My adolescent driveway basketball moves were inspired by Oscar Robertson.
  2. tonyb

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I have similar thoughts. I can just imagine my grandfather’s reaction should he have heard what I’ve spent on our pets’ dental care.
  3. tonyb

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Attitudes toward pets have changed dramatically just in my lifetime. I can only imagine how it was in decades prior to that. It was common to see dogs running loose (our dogs did), and to see them dead alongside the road. Cats, too, although our feline friends were less likely to end up that...
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It doesn’t tick off so much as amuse that RH (formerly Restoration Hardware) would go to the expense of sending me their 300-plus page, full color on slick paper contemporary furniture catalog. It must be that certain of my behaviors and associations are typical of people unlike me in most...
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Life’s a struggle and then you die.
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    These days, outside of circles such as this one, you may as well be elaborating on the better and worse stagecoach wheels. At a funeral a few years back one of my relatives wore an ill-fitting black jacket with satin lapels, which I’m all but certain he found at a thrift shop in the days...
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In May of 2020 a shirttail relative who had been in failing health for a number of years found himself in desperate straits when the woman with whom he resided, and on whom he relied for the business of daily living, up and died on him. So we (another relative and an old friend and I) scrambled...
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Just call it Dada, man.
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Sometimes I wish there were some mandatory additional charge for every email or phone call over some reasonable limit, a charge so minimal (some fraction of a cent per, say) as to be of no significance to anyone other than the spam producers. I delete, I block, I unsubscribe, I jump up and down...
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That’s the way to do it. Several years ago, during one of those spikes in gas prices, I rented a large truck to transport furniture I acquired free of charge out Seattle way and drove it to greater Denver. I used that stuff to furnish a short-term rental unit we had recently acquired. I...
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The older I get the less I desire anyone to emulate. It’s not that certain characters don’t do things worthy of emulation; it’s more that I’ve gotten to know many such characters who showed themselves to be less than admirable. That doesn’t diminish that one thing or two they happen to be very...
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I fear you’re right about that. People “read” books by listening in audio format. They “write” by speaking into their smartphones. I see hints of that in myself. I get easily distracted, especially online, such that reading anything lengthier than a few hundred words can seem more trouble than...
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Have you ever seen that sendup of TED Talks by a self-proclaimed “thought leader”? It’s a hoot.
  16. tonyb

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I wanna know about that glider in the background.
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Some one-trick ponies are very, very good at that one trick. They’ve found their niche and they fill it admirably. I’ve read many a stellar essayist who should have left their unfortunate book-length efforts alone. And vice-versa. What’s insufferable is a writer who tells what amounts to the...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ Idle prattle is every bit as evident in speakers of the King’s English as in the speech of the illiterate and uneducated. Maybe even more so.
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Perhaps the most valuable thing I took away from my cursory introduction to the study of linguistics, all those years ago, is that all grammars are equally rule governed. A distinction must be made between prescriptive and descriptive grammars, though. The latter concerns itself with how...
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I’m not so sure a teacher wouldn’t have made a similar observation when I was in high school, lo those many years ago (I can think of a couple of them who might have), but he or she would likelier have broached the matter a tad more obliquely, such that only the kids with any imagination...
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There is not one clearly defined (or definable, arguably) level of written language competency that qualifies as “literate.” But the overwhelming majority of American adults are literate at its most basic — the ability to read and comprehend simple instructions. “Proper” spelling and...
  23. tonyb

    Social Media for those of a certain age?

    ^^^^^ Can’t wait!

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