Envelope please
I’ve mentioned my buddy’s blog before. I’m sure I’ll mention it again. He writes one of the best military blogs out there. If you read nothing else today, read his story from Iraq: KIDS....
Category: Humanity
In the name of Science
I’m going to do something I thought I never would on this blog. I admit it. I watch American Idol. I don’t know how it happened. First, it was just a way to spend...
A cabbie in Monte Carlo
It’s 7:15am and I’m in the back of a Mercedes in Monte Carlo. I’ve been on no sleep for as long as I can rightly remember. My bags are in the trunk, my seatbelt...
Somebody died
At 5am, I was sitting in a place called the Blue Gin Bar drinking a 1664 beer and wishing I’d never even heard of a place called Monte Carlo. It was a place that...
13-Minute Sex and the DVR
Thank goodness for Science. Bless it. Really. Not even a year ago, Science gave us, ahem, proof that guys prefer hot chicks. That’s why we pay Science. That’s why we drop Science like Galileo...
No joke
In recogition of this most important of days…I offer a snippet of an old post that explains a lot about me… *** I lost my virginity on April Fools Day. Looking back, there was...
Things to read elsewhere
As I type, my entirely family is huddled in the master bedroom. The dog is on a leash, the wife and I are sitting in bed, and the boy is running around on the...
Wil Wheaton recommends, Otis’ son mildly traumatized
My new shirt came in the mail yesterday. I’m wearing it this afternoon. Today at lunch, the boy looked at me with the same, innocent and quizzical eyes. “Who are those guys, Daddy?” I...
Steve Earle Guitar Changes Hands
Frequent readers here might remember a little project I started back in November. If you missed it, I sent one of my guitars over to Iraq to keep a friend occupied until he came...
The marriage bed
My wife and I have a problem in the bedroom. I’ve slept in more places than I can count–from five-star hotels to hammocks, I’ve seen it all. I’ve woken up on the best mattress...
Barack Obama: A different kind of popular vote
I come from a generation of people who immediately disregard anything that gains any popularity among the general public. It’s cool until other people like it. Then, “It’s played, man. Played.” These are the...
Super Tuesday Live Blog
12:42am–Of course, Blogger sticks it to me in the waning moments… 12:27am–CNN gives Missouri to McCain. President McCain…still getting used to that one. 12:25am–CNN gives California to Clinton and McCain. That’s not how I...
TMZ, McDonald’s, Circuit City, and nipple slips
“Schadenfreude is the greatest joy.” Americans, perhaps, caught on late to the concept of schadenfreude. We arrived so deep into the game of reveling in others’ misery that we who speak English don’t even...
Of best chances redux
“We’re not voting for inspirational-speaker-in-chief.” –CJ, in the comments to Of best chances The people who don’t want Barack Obama to be President of the United States are united in their message: He has...