November is the anti-April: gray and dreary, the beginning of the end of things rather than their rebirth. It’s the month you hunker down — if you don’t give up entirely.
I’m sorry; was somebody sniffling and whimpering? I couldn’t quite hear it over the sound of frost crunching under my feet as I joyfully danced on warm weather’s grave.
November is the feeling of weakness leaving the calendar year. Embrace it. (And P.S. — spell the word with the respect befitting such a stoic, regal time of year.)
November 17, 2014 @ 8:17 pm
After experiencing too many summers in Houston, I hear ya. Good riddance! However, I hate to admit it, but I skipped my usual Saturday bike ride because it was 38, cloudy, and windy.
November 17, 2014 @ 10:01 pm
38? Pfft. That's barely a reason to put on a jacket! The Texas heat has made you soft. You need to spend some time in Minnesota riding with Will Shetterly to toughen up.
November 18, 2014 @ 11:01 pm
November is my favorite month. Thos who claim California has no fall color have never seen a hillside covered in vineyards in full sunlight.
November to a Californian (should) mean the return of rain. It is winter that represents our rebirth, and I love the colorss of winter in Northern California. Even if, as looks likely this weekend, I miss a bicycling day or two.
rain does make me nervous w/r/t cycling. I came VERY close to a bad accident last Thursday as I stubbornly insisted on riding on wet roads!
November 19, 2014 @ 3:06 pm
Will Shetterly is a Neanderthal who probably cannibalizes his neighbors. We true Homos are sensitive.
November 19, 2014 @ 11:31 pm
I call dibs on the twitter war to PUNISH noel for his privelege!
November 19, 2014 @ 10:53 pm
Hey, what's with the casting aspersions on cannibalism?
November 20, 2014 @ 4:38 pm
I would like to sincerely and humbly apologize for my ill-conceived comments which I now see were extremely insensitive to Neaderthal-Americans who have every right to practice their age-old custom of eating their neighbors. Furthermore, if anything I said implied that having a chin is a superior standard of beauty, I had no right to say that, either.
November 20, 2014 @ 10:06 pm
Not bad, but you still repeat the old canard about Neanderthals being cannibals, which we all know is simply Cro-Magnon propaganda designed to justify their colonial appropriation of Neanderthal land.