by Jason Fox | Feb 2, 2011 | Idle Chatter |
Wuv. Twoo wuv. ‘Tis a many-splendored thing. It makes the world go ’round. It’s more than just a game for two. Love, actually, is all these things, along with an ooey-gooey host of 70s lite rock clichés. Naturally, or supernaturally, the...
by Jason Fox | Dec 5, 2010 | Idle Chatter |
I hate the holiday season. Wait, where did my ironic quote marks go? Okay, found ’em: I hate the “holiday season.” Back in the olden days of the early 1970s, the holiday season was a catchall phrase denoting Thanksgiving, Christmas and New...
by Jason Fox | Nov 1, 2010 | Idle Chatter |
Age is relative. And not just in the Einsteinian astronaut-traveling-at-near-light-speed-returns-home-to-find-his-twin-brother-is-now-his-grandpa way. For example, given predicted advances in robotics and super glue, I’m probably only one-third of the way...
by Jason Fox | Oct 3, 2010 | Idle Chatter |
Halloween is once again upon us. For the supremely ill informed out there, Halloween is a quasi-holiday for which not even the government shuts down – a riddle, wrapped in a bite-size Laffy Taffy, inside a Milk Dud. In other words, nearly impenetrable with...
by Jason Fox | Sep 5, 2010 | Idle Chatter |
It’s September in Texas. That special time of year when everyone undergoes mass hypnosis to convince themselves that any temperature under 89 degrees Fahrenheit qualifies as autumnal, and high school football erupts across the Texas plains. Ah, Texas football....
by Jason Fox | Aug 1, 2010 | Idle Chatter |
It always started just after the Fourth of July. The incessant thrum-thrum-thrumming of what are correctly termed cicadas, but what my family, in honor of John the Baptist, called locusts. (Although we never ate them with honey. Or without.) “Hear that?”...
