Russ McBee

Here are snippets of an ongoing conversation thread that happened on Twitter today; it involves five different people. These updates were interspersed with other ''tweets'' from me and the 62 people I follow, so the meandering, cloudy nature of Twitter is masked by my selective edits. (A name preceded by an @ symbol indicates that the person ...

This is a true story, but I'm changing the names to protect the innocent. A co-worker, whom I'll call ''Mark,'' has been on assignment recently about 10 or 11 time zones away. Back home, his co-worker ''John'' sent him an email about a meeting that transpired in Mark's absence. Here's what John meant to say to Mark: While you were sleeping, I ...

My paternal grandfather was a curmudgeon throughout his entire life. Christmas seemed to aggravate the condition. For nine or ten years, from the late 1950's through the mid-1960's, he taught at Gibbs High School here in Knox County (at that time, Gibbs housed grades 1 through 12 together in one building). One of those years, a few days before ...

I have a new story posted at the Psychozilla Tribune, in which the world is introduced to Ogg the Caveman. After lying frozen in a glacier for 50,000 years, he woke up when global warming started melting the ice. He's now taking the world by storm. Read about Ogg here.

Here's a recent Twitter from Newscoma, which I've been laughing about for the last couple of hours: I just sneezed on my dog. It was unexpected for both of us. I've had several Quotes Of The Day from her. Maybe I should create a Newscoma tag.

Based on this, I swear I'll never search at Amazon for anything but books, DVDs, music, and electronics. Kevin proves that the other choices are just too scary.