Throwback Thursday: 1985

Throwback Thursday: 1985 😅😋😍                                                                                                 "Hey," I said to Diana, "if you get a chance while you're in the states... didn't you say your sister kept that newspaper clipping of us in high school, the one of us at the tennis courts with my dog?"

#HireAWriter

#HireAWriter "I was a rocket ship filled with untapped potential.  With Year Up, now the sky is the limit." Dear Marketer, Your transit marketing campaign forces awkward metaphor and leans on tired, old cliche. You probably spent a lot of money on this shit. It should be better. Hire a writer, fer fuck's sake. Yours, SuperLowBudge

God is no longer an explanation of anything,

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.  God used to be the best explanation we'd got, and we've now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. So I don't think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief th…

The Great Purge: The Monday After

The Great Purge: The Monday After Monday. Today I woke up late, ate a buttery English muffin, dropped a whole thing of iced coffee all over the kitchen floor (same floor I'd just washed yesterday, natch) and then I did nothing of any value to anyone the whole rest of the day. Except for cleaning up the spilled iced coffee. If I'd put the coffee into my body instead of onto the floor, maybe I'd have gotten more done today. But here's what I've been doing all …

The Originals: "I Can't Believe I Fell For Another Damn Vampire"

The Originals: "I Can't Believe I Fell For Another Damn Vampire" Jenny and I are both binge-watching  The Originals  on Netflix. I called her today to find out where she's up to in the series. I myself have finished all four seasons in record time. I do not recommend pursuing such specious glory. You will rot your brain, plus your eyeballs might fall out the front of your damn skull. It's just that it's hot out, and I am unemployed at the moment. ( Please hire me. ) "Marcel has just taken over th…

I *need to tweet Hal Sparks that this shit really happened today

I *need to tweet Hal Sparks that this shit really happened today "Small black coffee, please." "We don't have small, we only have medium." "...that's impossible." (blank stare) I tried again, "What's the smallest size? "We just have the one size." "What is happening right now?" For a good three seconds I thought I was on a reality show. Like Hal Sparks was going to come out from the back and give one of his comedy lectures. Hal wrote this material …

Say No To Every Nazi

Say No To Every Nazi Right now in Trump's America, there are Nazi-like mobs marching for their right to rid America of "defectives" and "take back their country." They wear no hoods or cloaks. They fly Confederate flags high, they call for violence and preach freedom. These are people who view the concept of diversity and equal rights as a direct threat to them, personally. "You will not replace us! Jews will not replace us" i…

What Story Will You Tell A 6th Grader? George Washington, Santa, and Jesus

What Story Will You Tell A 6th Grader? George Washington, Santa, and Jesus I'd say that 6th grade was approximately the age when a poor-to-middling American Catholic school began to guide my squad towards current events and how we connect with history. We were but plaid-clad, doe-eyed whelps with brains of soft clay. Big respect for teachers in general, but double for those who steered Gen X ,  and threefold for teaching at a Catholic grade school. It was a wild, windy, sticky affair. I'm still not over it. Here…

Lords of the Ring

Lords of the Ring Joe had the guys over for Lord of the Rings Risk. This game is Jacob's (in the hat). These guys play these kinds of long, complicated games. I can't even hang through the reading-of-the-instructions. Depicted here, Blake appears to be re-reading some portion of the instructions. That's Chris on the right.