Jan 18th, 2010
A decade ago, I was a wee lad just entering the age where you throw social gatherings in order to injest massive amounts of alcohol. As one might expect of a group of very-early-20s gentlemen, we were not the most tidy individuals on the face of the planet.
Put plainly, we were filthy. We were men [...]
Jan 14th, 2010
So, we’re going to Vegas.
It is a decent indication of my current mindset that I didn’t immediately set out to recreate any portion of the Hunter Thompson “Vegas book,” as he called it. I will not be getting locked into a serious drug collection, nor will I be deferring to the tendency is to push [...]
The other day on the Tweetyspaces, as all the year-end Best Of X and Worst of Y and Decade Roundup of Z and all that jazz. I realized to the world and to myself simultaneously, that I haven’t created one single damned end-of-year list. So, like the contrarian that I am, I have created a [...]
Dec 14th, 2009
I’ve been writing for a long time now. I might have mentioned this somewhere else, but when I was about 11 years old, I wrote my first book of short stories. Okay, so they were all about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and none of them exactly had what we’ll call “accurate punctuation” or “coherent [...]
Sep 22nd, 2009
Over the past few weeks, months, perhaps years, the constant cry from the internet audience towards bloggers everywhere has been: “We want more cat coverage! Write about your cats! Cat Cat Cat Cat Caaaaaaaaaaaaaat.”
Who am I to stand in the way of such overwhelming interest in a small grey ball of fluff and meat that [...]
Aug 12th, 2009
I have been informed that I recently crossed the threshold of “30.” This is apparently where one can choose between “acting immature” (read: still believing you’re 22) or becoming an “old crank.” Considering the fact that I’ve been the aforementioned “old crank” since I was about 22, I haven’t noticed much change.
But the things that [...]