The college did not appreciate his on-line confession of a crime. Here 's Phil Busse's Huffington post item, called "Confessions of a Lawn Sign Stealer": [T]he oversized 4 x 8 foot mini-billboard in front of the…
"... and if anybody in this room thinks we don't have infiltrators, well you are probably still waiting for the Easter bunny.... As a matter of fact I know for certain... that one of them is in this room right now."…
Says Jeanna Giese , the Wisconsin girl who survived rabies. She just went to the prom and graduated from high school. On Sept. 12, 2004, the then-15-year-old was bitten by a bat after picking it up by its wings inside St. Patrick…
Oh! I'm sorry. I didn't watch "American Idol." We went out to a cool Austin restaurant called Uchi . We ordered the omikase. What was that? 10 courses? We lost count! We put our trust in the chef and accepted wh…
Some people do! The place is also dimly lighted, which, once you examine the kitchen nook in daylight, is probably not such a bad thing. The cabinets hold nothing but a six-month supply of powdered milk for Mr. Podell’s cereal, s…
"Oh, all right. I won't bug you then. But I wish you would go live somewhere else." = what I just said, verbatim, to a rabbit, that I tried to scare away and then saw was crouching over some freakish looking squigg…
I picture hawks gliding around looking for prey -- with their hawkeyes -- and then swooping down and grabbing the unlucky furry thing. But this morning, in my front yard, I had a hawk stalking a bunny on foot. He had his tail fan…
Yes, I did finally get out to see " Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut ." That's the highly promising first line of the film, which is set in 1988, and might be a multilayered tribute to the year 1988. There are m…
The trees in my neighborhood darken all the yards and lead good gardeners to indulge heavily in ferns and other groundcover instead of flowers and vegetables and grass. What might, without the trees, have been lawn looks like thi…