New episode of The Zamo the Destroyer Show: The chimps have yet again offended the Sun God, leading to several inches of snow and some severe nose-thwackings with rolled up newspapers as Zamo doles out divine retribution on behalf of the Sun God. Except for Technical Support Monkey, who...

Dia duit. Just finished the Irish 101 course from Dublin City University and about to start Irish 102 next week. Both are free through futurelearn.com, which is good for those of us who might well have a little Scottish in us mixed with the Irish and hence don’t want...

Dia duit! (Irish for hello). Where to begin today… well, I think I mentioned before about trying to learn Irish on Duolingo… which is infuriating (though made better when one learns that the website version of Duolingo has grammar notes even though the app version leaves you high and...

Little yellow torch-buds raised high without pitchforks a crowd waits to protest and drive away the frost by their defiant unfurling...

New episode of The Zamo the Destroyer Show: Inspired by an old British archeology show, Zamo tries to get Technical Support Monkey to start digging for Roman coins in her garden and in the park across the street, but apparently the Romans were smart enough to stay far away...

Where to start this week… a lot of my “work” time was spent right here or on related sites. I spent all evening Thursday uploading more than 100 Zamo the Destroyer episodes to my Soundcloud after doing the unlimited storage space upgrade. I had had the first 97 episodes...

When I was a kid, showgirls still seemed to be everywhere on TV… probably it was old syndicated variety shows from the 60s and 70s I was watching (just as I watched Bewitched religiously long after it was no longer running), but then there were also aspects of showgirl...

pouty boy with a big gun —the “boy” was then 47— do you know what that’s for? Can you hunt? —not just in Whole Foods— Can you defend? —not just your ego— Do you disavow that image? —or secretly delight in it— toy soldiers in your mind I’ll tell...

New episode of The Zamo the Destroyer Show: This week is the 200th episode of the show, but Zamo’s not celebrating, what with the cold temperatures and the only flowers to be found being inedible and poisonous ones like hellebores. Which for some reason inspire Technical Support Monkey to...

So, the good news is the university has gotten my transcript from the audio recording school I attended. Of course, said school doesn’t really do official transcripts so they sent a PDF of my grades records, which the university has received but put as a separate item on my...