Friday in America
Kucinich is out of the race. I was never a supporter, but I will miss his wife. I think every presidential candidate needs an Amazonian redhead lurking around in the shadows. Which leads to a joke about Hillary’s wife, I’m …
Category: Rants
Wing Ding
Every year since 2000, with an exception in 2006, I’ve found myself reading upwards of 300 manuscripts for a writing awards program. This year, I read 327. My job is an easy one – weed out the obvious shit from …
Anxiety
I have a recurring nightmare that does not involve getting a colonoscopy. If it did, it would make much more sense. Instead, my nightmare is a very basic, very unsurprising anxiety dream. So mundane, in fact, that I hesitate to …
Passive Pursuit
Things I’m interested in but don’t actively pursue: (1) Learning a language (2) Exercise (3) Exploring my home town (4) Women (5) Happiness (6) Stabbing certain people I know in the neck This month is all about my resolutions for …
History
Much to my shame, I spent an enormous amount of money putting my way through college so I could earn a BA in history, which will get me about as far as just leaving all my application forms blank when …
The Hero Falls
I spent a good portion of last night thinking about old British shows where the main character dies early on. Well, actually, I spent much of the night drinking scotch and trying to make my living room as dark as …
SPOT on
In an attempt to fill the dead time between, you know, 9:30am and 6pm, I was reading deep into the news because, once you get past Obama, Iran, and whatever else has hit the fan, you can really ferret out …
Boredom
Two weeks away and now I’m back at work. Clocked in at 9:30am, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Deleted everything in my inbox because anyone who emailed me while I was on vacation is a fucking asshole and not deserving of my …
Holiday Resolutions
Back from two weeks in the UK – Christmas with a group of old friends, together for the first time in about a decade. All grown up and married with kids, so I was the weird bachelor who drunkenly played …
Radiate & Fade Away
The current anti-smoking ad campaign on the Metro not only says second hand smoke causes SIDS, it also notes that cigarette smoke “contains radioactive materials – cancer causing materials that are also found in nuclear bombs.” Holy shit! That changes …