• According to dictionary.com,  a manifesto is “a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives.”  If I were to call this blog a manifesto, maybe someone at the FBI would start reading it.  It would be one more reader than I have now.

• It is a lot less work to have an idea than to execute one.  Execution is a pain in the ass.

• My wife just bought some red wine glasses whose globes shimmy like water balloons when you attempt to wash them.  It is only a matter of time.

• The NYU Medical Center says that your sinuses produce over a quart of mucus per day.  In an average person’s lifetime, that works out to be 163 barrels of snot.  It’s a good thing we have throats.

• Important things happen that never show up on Facebook.  Maybe by definition.

• The film “Baseball’s Last Hero: The Roberto Clemente Story” is now in pre-production, scheduled to be released in 2012.  I took a look at the starting lineup — I mean, the cast — and was disappointed to see that Bob Prince, the Voice of the Pirates in the Clemente era, will not be portrayed in the film.  How could you not include Prince?

• I use the word that a lot, incorrectly a tenth of the time, superfluously a third of the time.

• Are flying insects attracted to your ears, or are they the only ones you hear coming?

• If Mark Twain didn’t say, “Ain’t worth a teaspoon of hummingbird pee,” he should have.