fathers day 2011: the deer imitator

It’s 1988, and my father and I are in his two-toned 1983 Suburban headed on I-40 West toward Hickman County, TN. Me:  “Why do you like going into the woods to hunt deer so much?” Dad:  “For stress relief.  To get away from civilization.” Stress.  Yes, going 60 miles from home, turning down a dirt [...]

“summer clearance” is supposed to mean a bargain, not my daughter’s stage name

I’m worried my little girl wants to be stripper.  Every day, I crawl across 9 miles of middle fingers and ineptitude (usually 45-60 minutes), pull into the garage, carry my laptop and “homework” upstairs, open the door, and walk in to find bare girl parts. Sometimes, they’re complemented with the feather boa I got at [...]

what dogs have joined together, let no man put asunder

I’ll bet I have a better “worst cacophony” story than you do.  In fact, I dare you, Internets, to come up with a better story about a horrendous noise than this one:  the sound a bitch makes while being dragged by her doggy vag. When I was about 12, our next door neighbors had a [...]

putting the “poo” in “pool”

On our family vacation of 1989, as you already know, I crapped in a hotel sauna and then watched some hapless man go inside for just long enough to run out and, presumably, vomit.  Well, that wasn’t the only misplaced turd I left somewhere across the American West during August 1989.  At a motel near [...]

not all dogs go to heaven. this is the first of a few that are in hell.

Maggie was the curly-haired terrier that lived across the street from us with her soon-to-be-divorced cardiologist and housewife parents.  She was orange and brown and weighed about as mush as I did in 1983 when I met her one spring afternoon as she came bounding across her parents’ front yard, across the street, and at [...]

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