BURGER SCOOT

  • Right on Sister–ur Mother!

    Yes, you should absolutely call your mom today. But you should also know that Mother’s Day isn’t just a holiday for greeting card and chocolate companies to make a buck, but of radical antiwar and feminist organizers.   Women Strike for Peace activists at a Censure Nixon rally in Washington, DC, on January 18, 1972. (Dorothy… I’m… Read more

  • Christopher and the Ergonomic Chairs

    Christopher parked his Nissan Sentra in the company’s CFO spot—walked into the empty building, and took his place at the Information Desk of the vacant building. He checked and routed yesterday’s mail, checked and routed yesterday’s email and voicemails, and checked his email and schedule–nothing was for him. It was March of 2020, and he… Read more

  • Effervescent–Not!

    Every time he spoke, a collection of bubbles would start to form in the right corner of his mouth. It got to the point where I stopped listening to whatever he was talking about and focused on the bubbles. He could have been talking about things we both were interested in: motorcycles, skiing, or Notre… Read more

  • Returning to the Movie Theater

    Godzilla vs. Kong — ASSHOLES WATCHING MOVIES As everyone knows by now, movie theaters are opening up with limited seating. There are two BIG films I want to see on the big screen: Jon M. Chu‘s In the Heights, which will be released sometime this summer, and Godzilla vs. Kong, which is currently playing! I… Read more

  • COVID-19 Shots

    First Shot I thought I had longer to wait. I wasn’t in the tier to receive my COVID-19 vaccination. But my wife persisted because I suffer from complex partial seizures–that are completely surprised by meds (still knocking on wood for over 50 years) and, I guess, becomes I’m almost 65. While not morbidly obese, I… Read more

  • Observations From the Mat #7: My New Folding Yoga Mat From Hell

    This post is the source for a Six Sentence Stories creative writing challenge. The following, however, is all the painful truth. A little over a year ago, before COVID-19 shut down my gym, I bought a folding mat. I needed a mat that could fit in my cramped locker. The idea was genius: a mat… Read more