Colin Dullaghan

If you run the tile saw for the installation of your new kitchen floor, wear a mask. Otherwise, all the wet rock sludge that sprays off the blade will get in your beard, and dry there.
It’s worth it, though.

I don’t try to complicate things. Really I don’t.
When setting up the utilities in our new house last week, I made only one decision that struck me as somewhat out of the ordinary — we’re going with Vonage for our phone service instead of Bell South. The phone works over the internet instead of [...]

For once, it’s me who can’t stop singing around the house.
Lope’s over there trying to write some important email, squinting at her screen dutifully and tapping at the keyboard, but I’m over here in the kitchen with our dog, and I’m serenading him all falsetto like,
“Vinnnn…cent!… Recently elected mayor of… Vincetown! By an [...]

For once, it’s me who can’t stop singing around the house.
Lope’s over there trying to write some important email, squinting at her screen dutifully and tapping at the keyboard, but I’m over here in the kitchen with our dog, and I’m serenading him all falsetto like,
“Vinnnn…cent!… Recently elected mayor of… Vincetown! By an [...]

For once, it’s me who can’t stop singing around the house.
Lope’s over there trying to write some important email, squinting at her screen dutifully and tapping at the keyboard, but I’m over here in the kitchen with our dog, and I’m serenading him all falsetto like,
“Vinnnn…cent!… Recently elected mayor of… Vincetown! By an [...]

For once, it’s me who can’t stop singing around the house.
Lope’s over there trying to write some important email, squinting at her screen dutifully and tapping at the keyboard, but I’m over here in the kitchen with our dog, and I’m serenading him all falsetto like,
“Vinnnn…cent!… Recently elected mayor of… Vincetown! By an [...]

For once, it’s me who can’t stop singing around the house.
Lope’s over there trying to write some important email, squinting at her screen dutifully and tapping at the keyboard, but I’m over here in the kitchen with our dog, and I’m serenading him all falsetto like,
“Vinnnn…cent!… Recently elected mayor of… Vincetown! By an [...]

For once, it’s me who can’t stop singing around the house.
Lope’s over there trying to write some important email, squinting at her screen dutifully and tapping at the keyboard, but I’m over here in the kitchen with our dog, and I’m serenading him all falsetto like,
“Vinnnn…cent!… Recently elected mayor of… Vincetown! By an [...]

Well, it looks like all the Indianapolis Colts needed for a successful season was for old Colin to move out of town. I suppose it was the least I could do.
Now here I sit, 600 miles away, in a town where nobody can even picture giving a rip about professional football, getting asked by my [...]

Fear grips the city of Columbia — and indeed the whole of the region — as a devastating tragedy looms ever nearer. Citizens secure themselves indoors, glued to televisions and radios, stockpiling bread and milk.
Schools announce their closings and delays twelve hours ahead of time, scrolling their disaster schedules below the evening news.* Our [...]

I went to a march for Martin Luther King, Jr. this morning. We followed the marchers and chanters and drummers up to Assembly Street, then over a few blocks to end in a rally at the statehouse.
(Same statehouse that recently took down the Confederate flag, after public outcry)
The speakers were amazing and incisive — Dr. [...]

So I get this email the other day from my sister — one of those endless forwards, you know — all about the various editions of Barbie dolls which correspond to different sections of the city where we grew up (Indianapolis, Indiana).
Here’s the one for our part of town:

“South Side Barbie”-This pale model comes dressed [...]

What’s this I hear about this crazy Hercules Hook?
Holding objects up to 150 lbs on a standard household wall *without* hammers, nails or drills? Poking a tiny hole in the drywall, through which a specially curved metal device is threaded to brace against the rear face of said drywall panel and provide a sturdy protruding [...]

We’re sorry. If you’ve been trying to reach any of the Apple fanatics you know today, you may have been experiencing some difficulty.
You see, the MacWorld Expo is going on now, in San Francisco and on live-streaming websites worldwide, and this morning is Steve Jobs’ keynote address.
How can I summarize this succinctly? It’s like the [...]

Grrr! I haven’t posted anything here in days and I’ve really, really wanted to. I’m getting so antsy now; there’s just this generalized, uncertain tension that has dogged me all week and I’m starting to think it’s Blog Withdrawal.
Posting here is more therapeutic than I realized… the calm collection of your thoughts, the careful editing, [...]