by Bill McCurry | Feb 8, 2013 | Entertainment, Humor, Life
I remember when I was eleven years old doing my very best to cut out my grandfather’s heart and eat it. He was trying to do the same to me, so it was all fair. Plus, it was on Christmas Day, so we deserved some kind of forgiveness, or dispensation, or something like...
by Bill McCurry | Dec 27, 2012 | Humor, Life
Now that Christmas over and everybody’s holiday cheer has been poisoned by bitter relatives and travel reminiscent of a bad peyote trip, I’d like to talk about all things Yule. I’ll hurry, since I ought to be editing right now. I rate this Christmas as bizarre. It...
by Bill McCurry | Nov 29, 2012 | Fear, Humor, Life, Television
I’d like to make a few hundred Christmas cookies, but most of the people who might eat them are relocated, dead, or not speaking to me. Instead, yesterday I window shopped for cookie ingredients. Yes, it’s pathetic, but I could be strapping reindeer antlers onto my...
by Bill McCurry | Nov 17, 2012 | Creativity, Entertainment, Humor, Love, Marriage
At Disney World, if you don’t glitter then you’re a drone. You can push strollers, pay for ice cream, block the paths with your chubby waddle, and fill up queues to make it hard for the real merry makers to get to the Haunted Mansion. But you don’t add to the corona...
by Bill McCurry | Dec 26, 2011 | Humor, Life, Marriage, Relationships
I’m not sure what to call this post-Christmas communication. “Debrief” sounds like we’ve just smuggled a defector out of Beijing. “Report” makes me want to write about reindeer with a No. 2 pencil in a Big Chief notebook....
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