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This is an e-mail to a friend along with her response



Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 03:58:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Phil {you know me as Captain Pike }
Subject: Thank you God, thank you Jane...
To: "Jane {details deleted }


Janie:
How you doin? I debated writing this to you but, I
decided ****-it, so here goes.
It was 4 years ago yesterday that I emerged from a 3
day using binge and failed ...

This blog entry is for Niamh and any other reader who has never been Zippy-fied. Zippy is a sort of surreal, weird comic written and drawn by Bill Griffith.

"Are we having fun yet?" This non sequitur utterance by the clown-suited philosopher/media star Zippy the Pinhead has become so oft-quoted that it is now in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Zippy has in fact become an international icon, even appearing on the Berlin Wall

...

This is one story from a series about an extraordinary woman inspired by a true to life figure in my life -- I married her.

Night at the Theatre
I met Nancy the summer I worked as a Volvo mechanic. I say mechanic but I was actually more of a “gopher”. I had owned Volvo’s and had convinced a shop owner that I could do maintenance on them. Being the lowest paid employee kind of takes the pressure off and I often shuttled customers to and from work while we worked on their ...

Introduction

Hey its my essay and Ill be as pompous as I like !
Anyway I promised some stuff on dyslexia because alot of people have asked about it both hear and in RL so here is the introduction to what willprobably be about 5 or so entries on dyslexia and dyspraca
To get this Im going to have dig back to the list of my embaressments and some of the worse moments of my life and before hand, no I don’t want pity I just think people need to be able to see the signs. ...

Introduction

Hey its my essay and Ill be as pompous as I like !
Anyway I promised some stuff on dyslexia because alot of people have asked about it both hear and in RL so here is the introduction to what willprobably be about 5 or so entries on dyslexia and dyspraca
To get this Im going to have dig back to the list of my embaressments and some of the worse moments of my life and before hand, no I don’t want pity I just think people need to be able to see the signs. ...