BURGER SCOOT

  • Backing Out of Facebook

    Backing Out of Facebook

    Last Tuesday a friend stopped me in the lobby where we both work and told me a political meme that I had posted the day before was false–or at least Snopes.com claims it was false. That was good enough for me. In reflection the quote Vice President Pence supposedly said was crazy. Now, he has said… Read more

  • More Bread for Mopping: Eating with Jimmy

    More Bread for Mopping: Eating with Jimmy

    “Two fat guys walk into a restaurant…” I don’t know what the punchline of that joke would be. It’s been so long since I lived the actual setup. The last time I had lunch with my friend Jimmy was over seventeen years ago. I miss our time together, our unhealthy attraction to food, my guilt… Read more

  • The Wobblies Past (and Present, I guess)

    One night a few years ago I showed a 2-for-1 coupon for a local pan-Asian restaurant to my son. I wanted to know if he had visited the restaurant. He is a pescatarian, and places like this noodle restaurant are right up his alley. “Yeah, I’ve been there–many times,” he said. “It’s good. Our local chapter of the Wobblies… Read more

  • Hi-V and my ugly safety vest

    Early this month I had my third near collision on my scooter with a car. This time just like the first time the driver of the vehicle pulled out of a parking lot to cross my lane only to notice me too late. Thanks to me I stopped in time and didn’t hit the car’s… Read more

  • Rolf Soltau and the Vespa Tech Workshop I may never use

    Rolf Soltau and the Vespa Tech Workshop I may never use

    I was looking up something about my Vespa. In grand Jockomo fashion I had forgotten what a particular indicator light meant on my scooter’s instrument cluster and after failing to find the information in either the Google or Google Images results I pulled up YouTube and entered the same criteria. When the results came up, I saw something… Read more

  • Clarification on Ice

    I have never made any unwanted sexual advances in word or deed towards a woman (or a man for that matter). Perhaps, my worst crime is occasionally letting my eyes linger too long on a woman’s body, but the recent sexual misconduct by men in the entertainment, political, news, and other industries has made me wonder… Read more