Hubris
One thing about women I’ve really come to hate is when they say they’re good in the bedroom. Because they never are, are they? Every woman I’ve been with has playfully told me this but, once I get them in …
Category: Rants
False Starts
In college, studying history, I took a class on Nazi propaganda. An entire semester, three and a half hours a week, sitting in a darkened room watching the entire collection of the Goebbels newsreels, from the mid 1930’s right up …
Quakers
Someone told me over the weekend that the Quakers were one of the few religions that don’t have blood on their hands. This came up in a weird conversation at 1am on Saturday at the tail-end of a Jewish wedding …
Words of Mass Destruction
When the webpage changed over from Dirtyfreaks.com to Greatsociety, we added a primitive little forums module. Since then, the forums have been home to a small group of, well, deeply crazy people. Considering that there are only a handful of …
Season’s Greetings!
Christmas. I hate Christmas. I always have. And I don’t mean in that Seasonal Affective Disorder way. I mean, here I am in March and I’m dreading December. It consumes me. I’m always thinking: Oh…god. Christmas. Again. Why doesn’t it …
Miyagi
You know who had the perfect life? Mr. Miyagi. The original one. He works in that weird maintenance shed by the Dumpsters, hidden away from all the other apartments. He never seems to have anything to do during the day except work …
Social Animals
I have a rare free weekend coming up and, as Monday dawns harsh and merciless, I find that I’m irrationally excited about the idea that, come Friday, I’ll be able to come home, take off my pants, go nowhere, do …
Cult Culture Archive: Planet of the Apes: The Series
From about five years ago, before box sets of crappy TV shows were all the rage…
On Dating…
People think I need a girlfriend. Friends say it’s unhealthy to roll into my 37th year without a girl on board. Despite countless train wrecks, they’re probably right. I’ll soon be moving into an age where it’s oddly creepy for …
The Holiday Writing Challenge
I’ll post this in the afternoon on Thursday so as not to take away from my desperate plea that someone, somewhere, help me get my Amazon Wishlist down to a manageable level. Nacho needs books and Dr. Who DVD’s and …