Nothing Says Home Like a Good Condiment

by | Dec 6, 2012 | Talk Dirt to Me

I rather like one of the duties of keeping indigent boarders: I must read to them before bed. I’ve been told that this fosters good reading habits and helps them to sleep. The latter certainly works for me but seldom works for them. Nodding off during the...

Of Opium and Hagfish

by | Dec 13, 2012 | Talk Dirt to Me

Plants furnish humans with all the calories we need either directly or indirectly. We also harvest chemicals from plants to harm others, inebriate us, or keep us awake. An excellent example is the poison ouabain from the Acokanthera shrub. African hunters have long...

False Consciousness

by | Dec 20, 2012 | Talk Dirt to Me

I’m having personnel problems. Before I go any further I should point out that I am certainly pro-labor. I don’t wish to align myself with walmart (sic), but my least favorite chicken has effectively gone on strike. Broody has once again decided to brood....

Zipper

by | Dec 26, 2012 | Talk Dirt to Me

In our house these days little cat feet don’t bring in the fog as Carl Sandburg suggested. They jump around scaring the other much more dignified cat. They incite games of chase with the indigent boarders. We have taken on a kitten because life had become a...

Floating Signfiers

by | Jan 3, 2013 | Talk Dirt to Me

I’m sure that Christmas was a favorite holiday when I was a child. Before the bitter years of high school, Christmas promised joy. During college and my years of bachlerhood Christmas became “the holidays”; a period of little or no work and much...