I’ve always been a mildly superstitious person. Not to any extremes and not in any traditional sense – as in “don’t open an umbrella indoors” or “salt over the left shoulder” or “it’s bad luck to stick your face in a fire” type things. Mine tend to more of the mild OCD type. Putting shoes […]
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Recently voted "The Best Humor Site in America That I, Personally, Write," The Byronic Man is sometimes fiction, but sometimes autobiography. And sometimes cultural criticism. Oh, and occasionally reviews. Okay, it's all those different things, but always humorous. Except on the occasions that it's not. Ah, geez. Look, it's a lot of things, okay? You might like it, is the point.Herding Cats Is Harder Than… Well, You Know…
February 9, 2012
A commercial I shot recently is finally done – the company it was for has been unsure how to best utilize it (I assume they’re concerned whether or not the world is prepared this much wonderfulness), but I can share it now, at least. So I’m officially finished with that one. Yay! Here it is, […]
Please Hire Me To Be A Member of SEAL Team 6
February 7, 2012
SEAL Team 6, you may recall, is the unit that stormed Osama bin Laden’s compound and killed him. You may have also seen that they recently rescued to hostages who’d been held by Somali pirates since October. This is so amazingly bad-ass, that I have decided that I should be part of their team. But, […]
One Of Them Has More Actual Pooping On The Field, But Probably A Better Half-Time Show.
February 5, 2012
Hm… gosh… what to make this week’s Weekly Question Of The Week about… Ummmm…. Jeez… If only… if only there was something happening today… something that’s a big, national event here in the US that people had to pick sides over… then… then I’d have something… Hmmmm… Oh, wait, isn’t there some sort of televised sporting […]
My Garbage Man, My Enemy
February 4, 2012
This is Clancy. Clancy is our beagle. He’s just about the sweetest, kindest-hearted animal you can imagine. He doesn’t even bay – the only time he howls is when he hears a fire engine or wild dogs. The things that matter to Clancy are chewies, chasing his Squeaky Monkey, making sure that no one is […]
Hey, Blogdramedy, Let’s Play 20 Questions!
February 2, 2012
Today’s installment of 20 Questions features Blogdramedy. Blogdramedy is one of my very first blog buddies, and I couldn’t be more pleased to feature her. I like to picture Blogdramedy in black & white, like a female reporter in an old Howard Hawks movie. Gumption. Moxie. Sass. Chutzpah. Also, she lives on a boat at […]
Why Glee Is, Seriously, Just So, So Awful
January 30, 2012
Jules, over at Go Guilty Pleasures, and I get along great. We both like things that are funny, we both live in states where, bizarrely, you can’t pump your own gas, we both have had people reach our blogs because of searches related to chipmunks. Birds of a feather. But there is one thing we […]
And “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”? Makes Me Sad And Anxious
January 29, 2012
Over at H.E. Ellis, she’s been celebrating her 100th post with 10 lists of top 10’s. In one of them, she mentioned the song “Goodbye Horses” being forever rendered creepy by the movie The Silence of the Lambs. Now, it’s not a particularly good song, really, but it got me thinking about songs that, because […]
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