The Daily Dose/Monday, May 17, 2021
The Daily Dose/May 17, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return, probably later this spring, though perhaps in the summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow grabs a soak after his walk, where he runs into an older couple. Today’s Diary.
Plainly married since Reconstruction, they had evidently said everything they had to say by the Coolodge Administration because they didn’t say a word to each other nor were they looking at each other, acting as if being in the other’s visual ray would prove fatal.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The man who finds the smell is the one who sniffs.
Nicholas Monsarrat
Smith and Jones
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The Daily Dose/Sunday, May 16, 2021
The Daily Dose/May 16, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return, probably later this spring, though perhaps in the summer.
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. Ohio State Football Massage Therapist “Scandal”: – News of older, chick masseuse hoodwinking unwitting, horny football players into sex at therapy sessions shocking, as Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” no Ohio State football player complained about this, asking the public to “like, trust us on this one and stuff”.
2. GOP Voting Laws – Hey guys, the voting laws you’re force-feeding residents in several states are mean and hardly in step with the principles of a nation conceived in liberty…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters “pretty sure” it’s time for you guys to go the way of the Whigs and disappear???
3. Lauren Daigle – Stop us if you’ve heard this before: single You Say still at #1 on Billboard’s Hot Christian Singles chart, now in its 128th non-consecutive week at top, a Billboard all-chart record…Morman Tabernacle Choir still envious, banking future chart success on slow jazz versions of Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty and Morning Has Broken coming out later this summer.
4. Liz Cheney –Removed from House leadership position for having nerve to try and rescue GOP from clutches of lying sexual predator who believes the Revolution was won by Continental Army securing British airports…Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters still scratching heads over which of these elements continues to impress Trump supporters.
5. Mideast Turmoil – While Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters mindful that people have been fighting in Mideast for centuries, they are going to bother to deplore the bombing of building in Gaza City that housed Associated Press offices…They are grateful, though, that Israelis gave an hour’s notice of attack.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
It’s Read Free Sunday at The Diary. Enjoy.
The Diary of a Nobody – At the hotel, Q announces he is no longer keeping track of his reward club signups. Today’s Diary.
Instead, in deference to the fact he wins the rewards club sign-up race handily each month, he announced there is now an infinity symbol next to his name…This made me laff because Q can affect a pretty snobbish air at need and I went to the back office and checked and sure enuff, next to Q’s name was an 8 lying on its side.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil and another, and no matter how you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.
Charles Bukowski
Ham On Rye
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The Diary of a Nobody/May 15
Q: Is it Read Free Sunday at The Diary of a Nobody?
A: Damn straight it is.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Saturday, May 15
Assistant Front Desk Manager Q had some news when yours truly reported for duty at the hotel tonight…One, to show he’s serious about dropping some weight – recall he proclaimed this last week – he announced he will be only taking his taxi as far as the base of the rather large hill he lives on top of…This is a significant concession on Q’s part, who’s also on record as pledging to return to the gym, tho he didn’t have any gym exploits to talk about today.
The Daily Dose/Saturday, May 15, 2021
The Daily Dose/May 15, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return, probably later this spring, though perhaps in the summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow does his taxes. Today’s Diary.
I was planning on putting them off until the very last possible moment – per standard policy when I’ve been alone – but the W2s for the year were already in the VSO from the refinancing and Lord knows I had the time and they were going to have to be done sooner or later not even yours truly, Mr Procrastination who’s generally always able to muster a reason to put something off, could find one.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
She’d often observed that people generally lived up to whatever expectations they had of themselves.
Emily Brightwell
The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries
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The Daily Dose/Friday, May 14, 2021
The Daily Dose/May 14, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return, probably later this spring, though perhaps in the summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – On a day off, Sparrow cleans out a couple of email accounts. Today’s Diary.
To kill time before being allowed to go to bed I cleaned out my two Gmail accounts…One, which I’ve had for 15 years or so and another I started four or five years ago when I did some freelance writing, something I didn’t particularly enjoy because people were always telling me what to write and when to have it done by.
There was a lot to delete…The older account had almost 60,000 unread messages and even the newer one had 25,000 or so and it was to the point where neither was particularly functional…Compounding the problem was there isn’t a Delete Every Goddamn Email button and there are only 50 unread messages per page and deleting them this way would take until the second coming…
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
But all that is yesterday. This…is the adventure now.
Gore Vidal
Lincoln
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The Daily Dose/Thursday, May 13, 2021
The Daily Dose/May 13, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return, probably later this spring, though perhaps in the summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow’s bosses at the VSO knock on his door. Today’s Diary.
Turns out it’s Kelly and Julie, the Human Service department head and assistant department head and, God bless them, they’re bearing pizza…They’re on a goodwill mission in the building and they offered me a couple of slices and, not wanting to cause offense, I took them…I hadn’t seen either for a year or so, but if they were caught up in emotion over this they hid it marvelously and quickly moved on to the Building Department.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The quality of any man’s life is a full measure of that person’s personal commitment to excellence and to victory, regardless of what field he may be in.
Vince Lombardi
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