Colin Dullaghan

My friend Val (Big VZ to me) is expecting her daughter, Annabella, very soon — tomorrow, in fact. Her due date is precisely one month before Val’s birthday, which (as she would remind you) is 1/23. One two three.
I can’t wait to meet her. If she’s anything like her mom (which seems likely) she’ll be [...]

Alright, we’ve already established that I am drafty and indecent.
Now, after visiting Shandon Baptist Church last night with Lope, to see her dad sing with the Christmas choir, it turns out I’m fairly blasphemous as well.
I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Shandon Baptist Church, but I certainly had not, and the moment I [...]

Wow, so that breathe-y/breath-y thing was pretty open-and-shut, huh? Sorry about that.
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Here’s a better question: Is the average person smart or stupid?
Now, I know the glib answer is to just say, “Well, he’s *average*, Stupid.” But play along, please — I’m asking your opinion here.
In advertising (as in most professions, I suspect) there’s a discussion [...]

“Breathy”, as in “that singer has one really breathy voice:
BREE-thee?
or
BRETH-ee?

Of course I’m a big dork, particularly when the topic turns to fidgety, gadgety devices that do nonessential things.
(I can’t debug your home security system; I don’t know why your refrigerator burnt out; if the TV gets nothing but QVC I’ll do little besides shrug. But if you’re shopping for speakers or trying to [...]

This afternoon I returned from lunch with Lope – I drove-thru and got her a Burrito Supreme, while I had a 99-cent Bean and Rice Burrito – and immediately saw this on cnn.com:

Oog.

Now, a man is entitled to call himself whatever fanciful names he can come up with, and that goes double for rappers. But this morning one esteemed Jigga Man got me into trouble with the Mrs., and that I can’t abide.
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She’s sitting at her desk, browsing real estate listings online. I’m eating cereal. I see [...]

Home shopping is generally said to take a few weeks or months, involving much traipsing and peeking and weighing of options, but really it’s a lifelong process. Everywhere you go, from childhood onward, you’re mentally filing away architectural preferences.
“Wow, check out the built-in bookcases around Evan’s fireplace. I wish I had a bungalow. (Age 22)” [...]