This started out as a comment on Joel’s quite respectful comic about the death of Christopher Hitchens. In case you weren’t aware, Christopher Hitchens has been a pseudo-idol of mine for the entirety of the Current Farris Era (a little over a decade, I would guess). I was in a rather foul mood yesterday, due […]
Entries Tagged as 'death'
Christopher Hitchens: A Confession
December 17th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Potpourri
Tags:christopher hitchens·death·debate·discussion·faith·religion
Lay your weary head to rest
July 25th, 2010 · 49 Comments · Potpourri, Video
On July 24, 2010, three mostly-unrelated things occurred: 1) I borrowed a friend’s video camera to capture some footage from our band’s recent tour to California. 2) Our orange boy cat, Mandy, who’d had a year-long fight with chronic renal failure, was having a good enough day that we decided to give him his final […]
Tags:cats·Colonel Mandarin Mango Spock Cecil Harley Best Orange Kitty·colonel manders·death·loss·love·the Mountain Goats·This Year
I Always Have Something In My Eye
August 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Potpourri
What did the Goldsteins say when their homework crossed the street? Our dog ate it. Yesterday was not fun. When the worst was over I poured two glasses of wine, and we toasted both of our sweet little rats, as Grace likes to call them. B had to remind me to clink the glasses, which […]
My Uncle Walter, I Don’t Know
July 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Potpourri
One week ago, Walter Cronkite died. I only heard the news yesterday. He was never much of an icon to me personally, but I know he’s important and was good at his job. His industry has always confused a lot of people, and has steadily lost ground in terms of the number of assholes and […]
Tags:children·comedy·death·good·laughing·learning·les lye·life·nickelodeon·reporting·walter cronkite·writing·you can't do that on television
