Colin Dullaghan

This weekend we participated in a 5K for heart health up in Pendleton, Indiana. It was a lot of fun, but Vince managed to edge us out at the finish – technically he came in 128th while Penny and I tied for 129th.
His was a good strategy: pooping on the lawn right in front of [...]

Lucius: Honey? Honey: What? Lucius: Where’s my super suit? Honey: What? Lucius: Where – is – my – super – suit? Honey: I, uh, put it away. Lucius: Where? Honey: Why do you need to know? [helicopter explodes outside] Lucius: I need it! [Lucius rummages through another room in his condo] Honey: Uh-uh! Don’t you [...]

I have it on good authority that the worst thing that can happen to you, the confluence of events most feared by the average person, worse than meteor strikes, worse than alligator maulings, is an overflowing toilet.
It’s terrifying: you push the little lever, the water floods into the bowl and, instead of gushing off to [...]

How do you make history? What is the recipe? When the Beastie Boys declared on their 1998 album Hello Nasty that “…With Mixmaster Mike, we’re making histo-REE,” were they referring to the act of making a record with the noted DJ for the first and only time? Or just the act of making a record?
When [...]

Birthday Dinner Originally uploaded by This Guy Colin.
Penny took me to my favorite restaurant for my 29th birthday — a little place called Bonge’s Tavern, up in Perkinsville, Indiana.
There’s no stoplight in Perkinsville, but there is the nicest 160-year-old converted general store serving gourmet vittles you’ll [...]

Of course I wear my helmet when I ride my motorcycle. Of course.
There’s no law in Indiana requiring licensed riders to wear head protection, but I’m with Jerry Seinfeld on this one: “The only thing dumber than the helmet is the helmet law — the point of which is to protect a brain that’s functioning [...]

Of course I wear my helmet when I ride my motorcycle. Of course.
There’s no law in Indiana requiring licensed riders to wear head protection, but I’m with Jerry Seinfeld on this one: “The only thing dumber than the helmet is the helmet law — the point of which is to protect a brain that’s functioning [...]

Of course I wear my helmet when I ride my motorcycle. Of course.
There’s no law in Indiana requiring licensed riders to wear head protection, but I’m with Jerry Seinfeld on this one: “The only thing dumber than the helmet is the helmet law — the point of which is to protect a brain that’s functioning [...]

Of course I wear my helmet when I ride my motorcycle. Of course.
There’s no law in Indiana requiring licensed riders to wear head protection, but I’m with Jerry Seinfeld on this one: “The only thing dumber than the helmet is the helmet law — the point of which is to protect a brain that’s functioning [...]

Of course I wear my helmet when I ride my motorcycle. Of course.
There’s no law in Indiana requiring licensed riders to wear head protection, but I’m with Jerry Seinfeld on this one: “The only thing dumber than the helmet is the helmet law — the point of which is to protect a brain that’s functioning [...]

Of course I wear my helmet when I ride my motorcycle. Of course.
There’s no law in Indiana requiring licensed riders to wear head protection, but I’m with Jerry Seinfeld on this one: “The only thing dumber than the helmet is the helmet law — the point of which is to protect a brain that’s functioning [...]

While it may be — heck, it *is* — a lot of work to set up one of these new-spangled lovesac thingies, my friend James and I recently concluded that it’s more than worth the effort. The advertised application as a relaxing respite isn’t half as exciting as these things’ true purpose: makeshift crashpad.

Somebody notify the folks at Disney: according to this recent expert study that’s in all the papers, the tiny Pacific nation of Vanuatu, situated off the northeast coast of Australia, is the Happiest Place on Earth.
They looked around, these experts, and studied things like general satisfaction, life expectancy and environmental impact. What they found was [...]

FUN IS IMPORTANT Originally uploaded by This Guy Colin.
I promised I’d post pictures from our Independence-Day outing up north. Click the image to go to my flickr page, and I think you’ll find that I kept my promise.
Shipshewana is amazing. It’s in Amish country, northern Indiana [...]

There’s no feeling quite like pulling on some heavy leather work gloves, trudging out into the yard and just yanking a whole bunch of weeds. We’ve got some miracle strand of greenery in our back area there, lush and verdant and fond of shooting inch-thick stalks five, six, seven feet up in a matter of [...]

The Shipshewana Flea Market, located in Shipshewana, Indiana near the Michigan border, is everything you’ve heard it is and more.
I have many photos and observations to share, but I’ll just post this one image for now, since I’m typing this on a borrowed computer.