Welcome to Angusland

In this dream I wasn’t a character but simply an audience. The setting was China, a green valley with a wide, shallow river bisecting it. Little shacks dot the hillsides, Chinese people are out working in their fields. A small, winding road leads to a long suspension bridge across the river.

In fact the whole thing closely resembles the miniature golf course cake that I saw on the Food Network before going to bed.

In one of the shacks (one with a windmill on the roof actually) is Stephen Still… Continue

So I’m sitting at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. Well, supposedly I am in New York, New York, but you can’t get a decent bagel here, the people are nice and the place doesn’t smell like urine. So my suspension of disbelief is gone. The signs say Times Square and Coney Island but I’m pretty sure that I’m in the Nevada desert, playing cards at the cheap tables.

I’m sitting in the fifth chair – the one the dealer deals with last. Sitting next to me, in order, are 29 Palms, La Habra, Orange County… Continue

New Years Re - Solutions

There is one good thing about New Years'. I mean afterwards, when you're cleaning up after yourself. As you totter about, picking up bits of crepe paper, squashed noise makers, spilled champagne glasses and mysteriously empty CD cases, consider this, the one good thing about New Years: It's mostly recyclable.

So, as you drag your party detritus out to the curb with sour stomach, pounding head, and thickening body try and feel good about yourself. Try to ignore those fr… Continue

Hey, I am a blogger with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper. Check out my humor at:

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/angtime/

Thanks for reading,
Angus