DO PIGS BLEED?

The pre-schooler had gone to bed perhaps 30 minutes prior to yelling, “Dada? DADA?”
She has a habit of making bedtime as long an experience as possible (like most her age) and it is no surprise to step in, hear some insignificant, time-wasting little tale of a missplaced stuffed toy which happens to be below her [...]

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JAMES BROWN WAS RIGHT…

To some, when James Brown was arrested in 1988 for asking who was using his personal bathroom (whilst brandishing a shotgun) it was the act of a crazy man. I remember laughing along with everyone else.
Yet here I am, 21 years later, an older man, a father of two children, one just about to turn [...]

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EVERYONE HAS THEIR DAY IN COURT…

It’s tough to know which was worse, the teenager getting a ticket to appear in court for not having his Muni pass with him on the train, or the pre-schooler discovering Barney the purple fucking dino-fucking-saur. 
I avoided that malevolent mauve moron for the teenager’s entire childhood; I didn’t even hum ‘I hate you, you hate [...]

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SHE’S SOMETHING THAT BORDER COLLIE…

 
It was, to understate the moment, not one of my better uses of the English language in public.
Having done a rather good job of driving with a zen attitude in the last couple of years (that is to say, not screaming and chuntering at everyone who does me perceived wrong on the road) I undid [...]

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