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Site title: Murrmurrs

Publisher:  pootie
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How many rules can you break when you’re only a few weeks old?

The Rule of Threes, according to the animal shelter, is a guideline for bringing a new cat home. Their goal is that you not expect too dang much out of it. A prepared owner is a patient owner.

Basically, you can expect certain outcomes at three days; at three weeks; and at three months. To sum up, y...

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We just had an explosion in the Brewster household. Fortunately we had a redundant containment system in place and damage was kept to a minimum. I had assembled the ingredients of the eventual bomb myself but had been led to believe they were not especially volatile. Plus I was not thinking clearly.

According to instructions, the contents of the device housing could be...

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You read a lot about arms shipments these days. Some of us have the wars, some of us have the means to keep them going. It’s an innate tension in the economy, custom-designed to generate profit somewhere.

Often, but not always, arms shipments arrive according to a plan or an agreed-upon objective or alliance. There’s usually some rationale for shipping arms. President ...

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Here’s the thing: Everything’s hard if you’re dumb.

Although plenty of dumb people can jump-start a car.

The deal is, Pat’s car was at my house for a week while she lolloped off to Hawaii. And because her car spent that much time in the Murr Bollixing Zone, the same zone in which my dishwasher just backed up and I spent an hour and a half removing three screws, ...

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I like playing games. I’m hard to beat at Boggle but I don’t absolutely have to win a game to like it. It’s good enough if I can win them sometimes, which is why I quit playing gin rummy with Dave because he clearly cheated or else why didn’t I ever win even once? How was it the last card he played was always the exact card I needed? Why do I always...

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