He and She: Labor Day

He: “Propane.”

She: “Not in favor.”

He: “You don’t like windows?”

She: “Of course not. They’re paneful.”

He: “So would not being able to cook your dinner. So I have to go out soon, go to the store, and get propane.”

She: “Does that make the store a sadist?”

He: “Funny you should mention that. Check to make sure the store’s open, will you?”

She: “Working … It is.”

He: “On Labor Day?”

She: “Them, and just about everybody else.”

He: “[…] So let me get this straight. Labor Day was founded in the 19th century so that ordinary working people could get a day off for once. Fast forward to today, and ordinary working people get to work so that the fancy peeps that ordinary working people were mad at in the first place get to have their day off?!?”

She: “Um …”

He: “And make it out like it’s all about the fancy peeps anyway?? And not the service workers who are getting the shaft for real?

She: “I always worked on Labor Day. Double time. And it beat staying home alone.”

He: “Double of nothing is still nothing.”

She: “Same as you, Mr Greens Mower. And what are you going to do about it, Mr 24/7/365 Research Director?”

He: “[…] Go get the propane.”

She: “Good idea.”

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Dude and Dude Time Capsules: Week 35

The Dudes, with their abject failure of a literary agent, O Ceallaigh (aka OC and The Amoeba), first descended onto the blogosphere from a rented room in Berkeley, California on New Year’s Day in 2006. They’ve moved from California to Maine to Washington to Hawaiʻi to Washington again to Hawaiʻi again (where they’ve finally managed to stay put, for now anyway), picking up a Quilly along the way. They’ve stayed on the blogosphere (on four different sites, two of which have since vanished), while the thing that was the blogosphere in 2006 moved to Facebook to Youtube to Twitter to Instagram to Tiktok. And a lot of, um, stuff has gone down. O Ceallaigh thought it might amuse someone out there to see just what kind of stuff has gone down over the last fifteen years, and how it looked at the time to OC and the Dudes and their gaggle of weird buddies.


One year ago this week.  AI: Trust and Obey

Two years ago. Amoeba’s Lorica: Responsible Parties

Ten years ago. Dude and Dude: Nitrogeniuses

Fifteen years ago. Grifter

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Dude and Dude Time Capsules: Week 34

The Dudes, with their abject failure of a literary agent, O Ceallaigh (aka OC and The Amoeba), first descended onto the blogosphere from a rented room in Berkeley, California on New Year’s Day in 2006. They’ve moved from California to Maine to Washington to Hawaiʻi to Washington again to Hawaiʻi again (where they’ve finally managed to stay put, for now anyway), picking up a Quilly along the way. They’ve stayed on the blogosphere (on four different sites, two of which have since vanished), while the thing that was the blogosphere in 2006 moved to Facebook to Youtube to Twitter to Instagram to Tiktok. And a lot of, um, stuff has gone down. O Ceallaigh thought it might amuse someone out there to see just what kind of stuff has gone down over the last fifteen years, and how it looked at the time to OC and the Dudes and their gaggle of weird buddies.


One year ago this week.  Amoeba’s Lorica: Mongolia

Two years ago. Kris an’ Murphy: Wunderwaffe

Five years ago. Dude and Dude: Pow How Right Now

Ten years ago. Amoeba’s Lorica: A Just So Story

Fifteen years ago. He Said – She Said

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