Author Archives: AdaptiveCurmudgeon

About AdaptiveCurmudgeon

Adaptive Curmudgeon is handsome, brave, and wise.

More Squirrels: How We Got Here

Mrs. Curmudgeon, who’s infinitely patient, has had to sit through countless movies while I demonstrate absolutely no knowledge of what’s going on. There’s a deeply nuanced environment and I just show up in the middle like some sort of tourist. … Continue reading

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Return Of The Squirrels: Backstory

The squirrels are back! You may not know the saga that is The Attack Of The Lesbian Squirrels but you’re about to find out. This is the backstory I always knew but never shared. There’s nothing quite so fine as … Continue reading

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How To Motivate A Curmudgeon

This is the complete text (used with permission) that came with a recent tip: Damn it man, we need Squirrels!!! I warned you months ago, but the little Bastards are back. The demon spawn from your twisted imagination have once … Continue reading

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A Tiny Christmas Miracle

I’m about to link to a happy tidbit: The lightbulb mandate has been reeled in. Here’s my personal reaction to this small improvement in liberty. Hurray! Now for some bullet points: Any liberty, even one that’s minor and irrelevant… makes … Continue reading

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Quotes And Poems

I’ve added another bit to my Quotes & Poems page. I added a quote from Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago. “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, … Continue reading

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Zombie Christmas

This is the ninth year (I forgot 2015 and 2018… whoops.) of a my Festivus Christmas tradition where we gather around the warm glow of the laptop and watch A Very Zombie Holiday.

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Quotes And Poems

I’ve added another bit to my Quotes & Poems page. I moved my favorite poem, Ozymandias (Percy Shelley, 1818) from my right margin. It’s a great poem but it deserves a better place than my dumbass margin. I met a … Continue reading

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Christmas Came Early

I left the house in good condition but Mrs. Curmudgeon turned the dial to awesome. When I left there was this: Not bad. I would’ve been glad to sit by the fire wiping out Kentucky’s best export but I had … Continue reading

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Jack De Crow, Christmas Noun, And Attack Of The Lesbian Activist Squirrels

Winter hit like a freight train but it’s been a good time for me anyway. Partly because I’ve sparked at least ten dreamers and that makes me as happy as a Curmudgeon gets. Earlier this month I mentioned The Unlikely … Continue reading

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Discipline At Santa’s Workshop (NSFW)

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