Times It Is Acceptable to Say, “That’s So Gay”: You’re trying to tell someone “That’s okay” and you have a pretty bad cold. Someone has just done a spot-on impression of actress Marcia Gay Harden, from Miller’s Crossing. You’re at a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit. You’re trying to be supportive of a friend who’s recently embraced […]

Times it is okay, and not okay, to use the term “Rock Star” to describe someone: “Sarah, you were a rock star at organizing that spaghetti-feed!” Not okay.  If you are involved with a spaghetti feed, you have ceased to be a star of rock. “You got that paperwork done, sorted and filed already?  You’re […]

You know what’s tough about being asked questions about your life?  If you can’t think of the answer, you feel old, true, and that’s no good.  But more than that, it’s that if you then think of another answer, it can’t make your life sound ridiculous. Case in point: Darla, the always charming and wryly […]

Hey, Happy Easter everyone!  Unless that’s not your thing, and then, I don’t know – happy end of Passover, perhaps, or happy beginning of Baseball season.  Happy… day. I got a head start on Easter this week – I had an easter egg hunt in the back yard!  It was just wonderful, good, old-fashioned fun. […]

(The short version: Please head over to Peg-O-Leg’s Ramblings for today’s actual piece) Ah, Freshly Pressed. Is there any title, any endowment, more electric around these parts? And the lengths we’ll go to earn the favor of our beloved WordPress overlords run a pretty wide gamut. There’s the rational (250-450 words, topical, clever title) to […]

As Congressmen on both sides of the aisle continue to debate over the best way to completely abandon the gun control question without looking like careerist cowards, the issue of guns in America continues to be at the forefront of people’s minds, on all sides of the issue. But for today let’s turn our attention, […]

So things have been unusually serious here lately: Sunday I got all mopey and dour about how I don’t like St. Patrick’s Day.  Then Tuesday the verdict came out with the Steubenville rape and there was the media “spin” on that and all I could publish was semi-coherent anger… Miraculously I still have some readers. […]

Well, St Patrick’s Day is upon us again, and you know what that means!  No, not that… No, not that either… Okay, I’ll just tell you.  It’s time for my annual Why I Don’t Like St. Patrick’s Day Buzzkill!  Yay! Yes, loyal readers, I have been – in my more dramatically self-indulgent periods – the […]