Oh my. Less than two weeks before Christmas. My son just wrote Santa a letter this morning alerting him to the “fact” that he’s been a good boy this year. as such his letter had about 9 desired toys. I read the letter twice (well, actually I wrote […]
Chicken meth is what’s for dinner while wife swapping: wackiness abounds As I write this, my eyes are laboring to stay open. The two passionfruit mojitos really hit me with a one, two sucker punch. So what it’s only 2pm. It’s been a rough long week. It seems […]
Happy wacky holidays to all and to all a good week. Apparently, because there is ostensibly one less week of holiday shopping –you know that sacrilegious time between thanksgiving and Christmas-people must rush to the stores on thanksgiving day to get those big screen televisions that are likely […]
Do you remember that Loverboy’s song “working for the weekend”? I wished that applied to me. Instead I work all weekend long. So, I work during the workweek so that I can keep working on the weekend. Such is life in the non-profit understaffed, bleed-you-to-death world. Besides working […]
Kicking it old-school style gratitude Every morning on my way in to work I pass a huge billboard that says “gratitude.” I have not quite bothered to figure out what the billboard is trying to sell -I recognize that sounds a bit jaded-but the phrase has been on […]
Another week, another soggy diaper and salty trail of tears. Such is life. Wackiness abounds in great big buckets of slop. Not only are politicians their usual two-faced selves but we have a slew of apocalyptic behavior and my own private wacked-out hell. Enjoy the weekend folks. The […]
The year is 2013 and tongue lashings are all the rage. Thanks in large part to a Ms. Miley Cyrus. You may have heard of her. She has literally been pushing her tongue to and fro and side to side. I bet she did well as a teenage girl […]
The Hellmouth rises as sinkholes appear. A call to arms against sinkholes From beneath you, it devours you –Buffy the Vampire Slayer Have you noticed lately that the media has been reporting about more and more sinkholes? Or as I would like to argue “hellmouths”. But I will […]
When I was younger, I was a storytelling champion. I loved imagining and constructing new worlds, in part because I was an only child. I also needed an escape from my “Bronx is burning” surroundings. One special Christmas, my aunt gave me a typewriter and I joyfully wrote […]
I have been in a bit of haze. Will the government shut down? I am not too sure that many people care as to whether the government shuts down. It is not like they do much anyway. 1. Duct-tape bandits. Do you remember when US Homeland Security Secretary […]