tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4682231504477859362024-03-06T12:02:32.018-08:00MurrmurrsSnortworthy.Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.comBlogger1352125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-42027685291722726202021-11-29T10:48:00.003-08:002021-11-30T09:13:50.198-08:00Murrmurrs 2.0I don’t want to scare anyone unduly. I’m fine with scaring people duly. The autocrats are demolishing human rights here and abroad. The wealthy are ever wealthier and more powerful. The Gulf Stream is petering out, with dire consequences for the climate and all life dependent on it. Children are inspired to vandalize through TikTok, and people’s hair is falling out in clumps. White ladies’, Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-124774551723154492021-11-27T03:00:00.062-08:002021-11-27T03:00:00.258-08:00Be The Leslie!The Leslie!I don't know if it's COVID fatigue or Climate Moroseness or something else, but I'm starting to fret and frazzle about doing things rather than doing them. I realize I need to get on the roof for something and suddenly I'm apprehensive about getting on the ladder. My printer is acting up and my sink drains slow. Rats have resurrected the bowling alley in my attic and Tesla has just Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-13756564163970142672021-11-24T03:00:00.055-08:002021-11-24T09:08:43.834-08:00Slow And SmoothDave and I love baseball or anything like it. Softball, Little League, beer ball, it doesn't matter. So when we saw a bunch of people on the field at the neighborhood park, we hurried over to watch.Something about the structure of the game fits my interior life like a ligand on a macromolecule. Or an mRNA sequence on a viral membrane. You get the picture.[No, we don't.]Okay, baseball just plain Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-54478656581248070552021-11-20T03:00:00.068-08:002021-11-20T03:00:00.222-08:00The One-Hit WonderEarly in our relationship, Dave and I had a little disagreement, and I got mad and punched him in the arm. No chance, I figured, I could do the big guy any harm, but it was not a playful punch, either. Just before I could get a second punch in, his hand stopped my fist cold in mid-air, and he carefully lowered it, and he said "We don't hit."Oh, I remember thinking, That's another possibility.&Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-26136370606733151742021-11-17T03:00:00.032-08:002021-11-17T03:00:00.220-08:00The Dolphin CoiffureThere isn't anything complicated about my hair. It's straight. You can describe it in linear units and you've pretty much got the picture. It's been everything from an inch long to three feet long, and gravity writes the rest of the story. Don't look for the strands to show any initiative or imagination. It's all just going to hang there to whatever point it's whacked off.This means it's not muchMurr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-24002931530663796832021-11-13T03:00:00.034-08:002021-11-13T03:00:00.209-08:00Reigning Cats And DogsHere is a way you can tell you're a dog person. Several times a day you say "Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit! Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Good BOY!"Here is a way you can tell you're a dog. You are lost in adoration of your favorite person who is barking at you in a friendly way and after a good long while you pop your butt down on Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-31299354512954376832021-11-10T03:00:00.034-08:002021-11-10T03:00:00.205-08:00To See, Or Not To SeeMy eyeballs are starting to get obstreperous, and it's really no wonder. The mystery is why it's taken so long, because I have treated them like crap since forever. We all start out with little baby eyeballs made of rubber and goo and they increase in size dramatically after we're born. For most people, they top out in size in the teenage years. Mine peaked at age seven, leaving me with Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-48615894337390662052021-11-06T03:00:00.018-07:002021-11-06T03:00:00.231-07:00The Scroll Bar Of Old AgeBaby MurrIronically, one of the ways you can tell you're old is you don't remember how old you are.Last month I heard the COVID booster shot was going to be available for people 65 and older and my first thought was Oh, shit. Then I remembered that not only was 65 already in the rear view mirror, it was pretty far back in the block.There are other signs. For instance, you can tell you're short Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-61003143360865234222021-11-03T03:00:00.043-07:002021-11-03T03:00:00.231-07:00Halloween At The Crappersons' They say that ignorance is bliss, although some of the most ignorant people out there seem to be pissed off all the time. Still, there's something to it. There are all sorts of things I remember enjoying more when I didn't know as much. And not just pâté de foie gras.I used to be able to ignore ads for big-ass cars. But now when I see them ripping through a wetland or jolting up a rocky incline Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-58168396653156666632021-10-30T03:00:00.066-07:002021-10-30T03:00:00.259-07:00"I Am [In] The Way"Have you heard the Good News? Religion is making a comeback! To those who cheer these things, it's a sign that goodness and morality will prevail over the forces of darkness. As a force of darkness myself, I'm a little irked. The religious revival has closely tracked the requirement in certain areas that individuals get vaccinated against a pandemic-causing virus. And that is because one wayMurr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-26267903097299910782021-10-27T03:00:00.056-07:002021-10-27T03:00:00.283-07:00There's A Stat For ThatOh boy, it's World Series time again! I'm paying close attention this year because we have a real shot at a new major league stat. We could witness the first non-Dominican to four-hit in two consecutive games while Uranus, Neptune, AND Chiron, which is barely even a planet, are in retrograde, with the Dow above 35,000. Baseball statistics. It's how you can tell a regular enthusiastic fan Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-91889442240750344632021-10-23T03:00:00.019-07:002021-10-24T09:26:11.702-07:00Mycelium MausoleumI can procrastinate with the best of them--in fact, most of the time I'm just getting around to procrastinating--but there are things you can't argue with for long, and having a dead-rat smell inside your refrigerator is one of them.You can let it go a day out of sheer disbelief. You can then imagine the smell is not coming from inside the refrigerator even though it wafts out only when you open Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-22394483530371617432021-10-20T03:00:00.053-07:002021-10-20T03:00:00.257-07:00A Visit From BeyondDooDah is a messEver since Studley Windowson faded out of our lives, I have become a backyard nuisance. I am a pest. I need another personal bird. Every bird out there can sense it and most find it alarming.The crows are coming along nicely. Dickens and DooDah, along with their occasional companions Auxiliary Dickens and Ancillary DooDah, are accustomed to us and, I'd like to think, well-disposedMurr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-60249889317824726322021-10-16T03:00:00.031-07:002021-10-17T15:35:34.791-07:00Craftily BespokenI got a flyer in the mail the other day. Nice photo of a young man, a shiny fellow, or at least recently exfoliated, with the tag line "Crafting Bespoke Experiences." Naturally, I was all a-twitter.I flipped it over. I suppose I should not be surprised he turned out to be a realtor. If you're branding yourself as a crafter of bespoke experiences, you could be doing dang near any obscure thing. AsMurr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-52273404689972797962021-10-13T03:00:00.030-07:002021-10-13T03:00:00.257-07:00SOL at the DMVWay back last July, I got a notice from the state that my driver's license was going to expire on my birthday, which wasn't until late September. Smashing all previous personal records, I got right on it. This is not my normal operating procedure. I was kind of proud of myself.What with one thing and a virus, they said I needed to make an appointment at the DMV rather than just walk in. So I Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com62tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-26642676869444889462021-10-09T03:00:00.044-07:002021-10-09T03:00:00.273-07:00Getting To The Bottom Of ThingsThe other day I got two big boxes delivered. The contents Required Some Assembly, and inside one of the boxes was the instruction to open that box first. That is because it was the box with the instructions (including Open This Box First) and the square screwdriver. Naturally, the other box was the one I opened first, just by chance, the one with no instructions and no square screwdriver, and Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com50tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-68264656397706874922021-10-06T03:00:00.048-07:002021-10-06T10:17:47.270-07:00My CherryotWhen they notice the paint is exuberantly jumping off of their car, normal people consider it might be a good time to buy a new car. But this, of course, is my car. It's older than my blog. I'd say it was older than dirt, but some of the original dirt is still on it.I was surprised to notice the paint vanishment, though. I figured if you just left your car at the curb and never bothered it with Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-70024331466694094932021-10-02T03:00:00.029-07:002021-10-02T03:00:00.421-07:00The Human BeanSure is a lot of talk about abortion these days. There has been all along, of course. I remember when Roe v. Wade became the law of the land. I said something laudatory about it and was shocked when someone pushed back on my enthusiasm, and kind of hard, too. Well, shoot. I was nineteen and not accustomed to imagining other people had different opinions.People still do, no surprise. I don't see aMurr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-25933603408155763112021-09-29T03:00:00.035-07:002021-09-29T09:43:03.210-07:00A Pig In Lipstick And Satin Ballroom AttireFirst off, I'm not even sure pigs look any better with lipstick.And besides, the name attached to this latest Oregon House Bill goes way beyond putting lipstick on a pig. This is formal satin ballroom attire with pearls, corsetry, cage crinolines and a bustle. Somebody else's whole job is to stuff you into it.It's not the legislation itself. I'm fine with that. Oregon has just passed a law Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-87388247112757233252021-09-25T03:00:00.042-07:002021-09-25T14:33:04.910-07:00Thanks, GladysCity living! Within two blocks of my house, I can find four restaurants, a whiskey bar, a shoe store, book store, coffee roaster, computer repair shop, two art galleries, a barbershop, theater, essential-oil emporium, and a bicycle shop named Gladys.Given the many options, I took my bicycle to the bicycle shop named Gladys. "Just spiff it," I said. "Do whatever it needs. I haven't had it out of Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-23231586007433120652021-09-22T03:00:00.048-07:002021-09-22T03:00:00.403-07:00Get Me Some Aggressive Morning DrizzleWeather forecasts are crazy good now. Also, a little arrogant. Accuweather just cheerfully offered up the information that two months from today will be overcast and cool, with a possible afternoon thundershower. There's a lot you can find out. I can check the forecast on a minute-to-minute basis. I also like checking out weather in other places, which is how I discovered a San Francisco forecastMurr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-60849897098189174952021-09-18T03:00:00.073-07:002021-11-17T14:59:08.986-08:00Ode To JoyThe more I know, the less I know.That's the way it's supposed to work. If you have a question that doesn't lead to way more questions, you're not doing it right.Take this whole subject of birds. I don't feel like I know much about them, even though the average citizen knows even less. I've accumulated some knowledge. But even the birds I know on a personal level, the ones I've observed closely Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-4447072967543728912021-09-15T03:00:00.039-07:002021-09-15T03:00:00.411-07:00Aiming For The Tiny Scroll HoleThe author in controlI get stumped by computery stuff from time to time, sure, but it's a lot better than it used to be. Computers got better, and I got better too. Shoot, when I first started word-processing, entire documents used to vanish in the ether. One stray keystroke and all of a sudden text was going backwards and smacking into margins and puddling up and I don't know what-all. I had to Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-56163048877429391992021-09-11T03:00:00.029-07:002021-09-11T03:00:00.388-07:00A Sucker For SuckersWell, I won't get too far into it. Let's just say that someone on Facebook is highly offended by the promotion of the deadly COVID vaccine, and also toxic masking, and you can tell she's serious because of all the capital letters. And:"I will never go to a hospital as it's wholly unnecessary.I do not trust man or medicine, I trust myself and God."Well, she sounds like she has things well in hand.Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-468223150447785936.post-35138007544445612872021-09-08T03:00:00.031-07:002021-09-08T03:00:00.337-07:00Storm The Motte!There I was, reading an excellent analysis of the Afghanistan situation, and everything was going along swimmingly until all of a sudden out of nowhere the author wrote:"They say they're just decrying the way we left; but of course, this is the motte, not the bailey."And everything went blank for a moment with the little spinny-wheel going around in my brain while it was buffering, and when I Murr Brewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com37