CUPS 125: Really Nice Stretch of Time

‘Spending Time Together As A Family’ is code for ‘Learning To Co-Exist With A Creature Hell-Bent On Destroying Us From The Inside Out Through Destruction Of Our Brain Through Exhaustion’. Also, ‘Shop’ is code for ‘Ice Cream Store’, and ‘Work’ is code for ‘Eating Ice Cream’.

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CUPS 98: Doing OK There?

Man, I don’t know whether it’s the plates I have or the shitty microwave, but ceramic ware comes out of that death box like hellfire. So, Rita’s ‘story’ is based on real events, every single morning, because I never remember that I have an appliance that is very much trying to kill me.

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CUPS 88: Work Ducks In A Row

There aren’t more than like two or three dozen names for cats out there that are better than ‘Señor Snugglehugs’. That may sound like hubris, but genius can strike anybody at any time, and I just happen to be the one that this burst of brilliance came out of this time. Let’s not focus on exactly where this name came from, let’s instead just focus on how much better this world is now that it’s out there.

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CUPS 65: Pep Talk

Ackers doesn’t have a lot of self-awareness when it comes to the language he uses. In fact, just the other day he was going on and on about how people were giving him ‘Snow Jobs’. All day long it was ‘Steve was giving me a snow job all morning, can you believe it?’ and ‘I just know that Debra from accounting is giving me a raw snow job in the back alley when it comes to these numbers’. Come on, Ackers, don’t be such a geezer, sheesh.

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