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 […]
March 31, 2013
If You Wish To Submit Your Vote Via Large, Mythical, Egg-Bearing Rabbit – That Is Allowable.
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. […]
March 28, 2013
I Coulda Been A Freshly Pressed Contender…
(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 […]
March 25, 2013
Please Hire Me To Be A Twisty Human Car Model
Ah, I see that you, Australian artist Emma hack, are working on another “automobile made of painted people.” There’s also those Canadian Ford ads doing something similar. Tough stuff, getting the right people for something like that. Got to go for the top tier of models. Sure, the people you got for the previous one […]
March 24, 2013
March Caption Contest: Gun-Control Debate Edition
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, […]
March 21, 2013
Tremble In Awe At The Mighty Power of Baby Giggles.
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. […]
March 19, 2013
We Are Better Than This.
By now you may have heard about the guilty verdict given in the horrifying Steubenville rape trial. You may also have heard the disgust at the manner in which it’s been reported. Here’s the CNN clip on the verdict: You know, you think we’ve evolved past this – both the callousness of the crime, and […]
March 17, 2013
Time Once Again For: The Ruinin’ O’ The Festivities
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 […]
The Byronic Man 
April 1, 2013
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