When I was younger, staying home from school sick was a luxury. Granted, I was a nerd who really didn’t like missing a day because of all that stress of being a day behind. So I usually went in sniffling just to not fall behind on those spelling worksheets. Because you know how much time those took to complete.
- Beards - Not on women. On men. Or more specifically me. I may look like a complete goober with a beard, but you know what? It can’t be beat for cold weather. The warmth and protection from that nasty wind chill…it’s like having a soft scarf glued to your face! (except that you can still breath normally)
- Tom Stone (photographer) - His work is incredible. Raw and moving, he captures more emotion in depth in people’s eyes than almost any other photographer I’ve seen. Absolutely brilliant (and sobering) work.
- The History Channel - If you’re going to be stuck at home, sick and talkin’ miserable, you might as well have something decent to moan to on the TV. And the local selections of Judge Judy and The View only make me want to yarf more, not less. I feel like I learned more in the 6 hours of watching The History Channel yesterday than I did in 8 years of Social Studies classes combined. (BTW, Hermann Goering was a total assnose.)
- Lasse Gjertsen’s second video, Amature - You might remember him as the kid that did the spastic ‘beatboxing’ a few months ago. This time he’s taken his frenzied editing style and turned it into an almost DJ Shadow-esque composition. Makes me smile.
- Blackass, Tracy Morgan’s take on Jackass - I admit it, Tracy Morgan makes me laugh. This short but rather amusing video (taken from a Jimmy Kimmel show) is his rendition of a black man’s Jackass.
When you’re older, though, staying home from work sick just isn’t the same. Or at least in my house it’s not. I can obsessively work via email, the dog barks his head off, and I’m forced into hiding in the basement in order not to kill him. And there’s no one to make me soup, dammit. Can’t that dog learn to be useful? Either that or he’s got to start paying rent.
