New Year’s Top Ten

I’ve been thinking a lot about my New Year’s Resolution this year. Like most of the rest of the planet, annually I vow to change some aspect of my life for the better. One year it was complaining. I wanted to reduce how much I bitched about everything. Clearly you can all [...]

Bummer of a picture, dude

Seriously. You’re all stoked that you performed really well in a sport, and the local paper shows up and snaps your moment of glory, and it appears in print and online for all of posterity.
And this is your shining moment: Someone’s butt on your head while you wonder, curiously, what that vrrrrp noise you just [...]

Totally wants me

I got another e-mail from Al today. You know, Al Gore.

Yeah. I just got a note from him telling me of his great news- that he won the Nobel Prize. Seriously! I know, I’m totally stoked for him. It’s a prize, you know? Prizes are, like, good. I mean, you probably didn’t know yet because [...]

It finally happened.

I have been overwhelmed– underwhelmed?– by a distinct lack of seasonal spirit since the arrival of the “holiday” decorations at my local Walgreen’s the day before Halloween. Whatever hopes I had of celebrating the season all cheery and bright died before I even hit the streets with my kids to beg for candy the following [...]

Hermitage

Sometimes I think becoming a hermit woud be an awesome thing.

The upside:
Total solitude.
Living in nature.

The downside:

No showers.
Bad dental hygiene.
Bland food.

It could balance out. I draw the line at no pillow.