Brevity is the soul of wit.
Yep.
I’ve been thinking about immigrants and the way they assimilate into American society. It used to be that groups would come here, live in abhorrent conditions and work their way up. I’m thinking of the Italians and Irish living in Four Points, African Americans in Brooklyn, Asians in a variety of Chinatowns and gold mining…
We have a neighbor we call Creepy Indian Guy. Not because he’s Indian. It’s because he’s creepy. He’s a starer. He spends a good part of the day hanging out in front of his house just staring at whatever apparently needs staring at. Like a super hero with laser eye powers that are on the…
I usually spend a couple minutes each day cruising around the net to stay up on the zeitgeist. Sometimes I find something really intriguing, creative, or useful. More often I find things that are the equivalent of a song you hate and can’t get out of your head. The thing is, headline writing has become…
Being a child of the 80’s, it was hard to miss out on the hair metal scene. I had my black leather jacket, spiky bracelets, and t-shirts with scary band logos on them. We’d all wake up on Sunday morning with no voice and a sore neck. But, as is usual with me, I was…
It’s that time of year again where stores open for longer hours and people go to great depths of debt and sleeplessness to create “joy”. And to accompany all that strfesstivity? (I made up a word! Yay!) The constant trickle of badly covered Christmas songs. Back when I worked in grocery stores, I had to…
When they finally come up with the pill that will let us eat anything we want without gaining weight, lettuce can fuck right off. Those weeds and lawn clippings shall never touch these lips again. Because really, nobody actually likes leafy greens. You know how I know? Because nobody gets stoned and goes “Dude… Leeeeettuuuuce…” Waking…