Category: 2001-2007

I long ago accepted that Rapid Eye Reality would not turn into one of those blogs that get quoted in news stories or become part of of the in crowd. As it started off...

I don’t write on Sundays. It’s not a religious thing, or even a rule. I just typically have no desire nor need to write on this particular day. What’s more, most people don’t read...

Antonella Barba, at a glance, is a pixie. She’s the girl from your home room class that is pretty and knows it, but doesn’t act like it. She’s the girl that your mother believes...

So, I wasn’t going to live up to my promise to report back on February by the Numbers. Failure is a bitch. Fortunately, it wasn’t failure across the board. Nonetheless, I didn’t do as...

I’ve been cooking with swiss cheese a lot recently. You know, a little cordon bleu, a little casserole, a little this and that. Cheese fetishes run in cylces, I think, and recently I’ve been...

To be opened only in the event you have not heard from me in the next 30 days To whom it may concern: If you are reading this, it’s because I have not returned...

I’m not sick. I’m not. I mean, yeah, I have some issues I should be dealing with, but who doesn’t? At least I’m not sick. In fact, I’ve been fortunate this cold and flu...

The appeal bond is one of the greatest tricks of white collar crime trade. Generally, because the white collar crooks are not violent, they are allowed to stay out of jail and/or prison while...

Last year, I made a last-minute decision to sell my gas grill at the annual neighborhood yard sale. It’s taken me until this very second to realize that the grill pre-dated my marriage. My...

I’m sad. I’ve had this idea for a book for a long time. It would be funny if I could just sit down and write it. The working title of the book was “Gollywood.”...

I don’t know how much has changed on my outside or inside. Something about these four years of pictures, though, makes me wonder. I’ll leave it to you to decide. All I know is...

As it happens, I’m currently sitting at #1 in the Google search rankings for “jimmy crack corn commercial.” It’s all based on a comment from a wandering and lost post I wrote some time...

Whether it was marketing genius or the product of some unfortunate related-term contextual advertising algorithm, this pretty much is the alpha and omega of my daily reminder that I live in a very tiresome...