I’m worth something!
My parents must have known something back on that snowy December day. As the flakes drifted around the state capitol dome, my mother took a break from folding towels and, more than a few...
Category: Recreation
Lone survivor
Today was a hike on nearby Paris Mountain. I alternated between leading the charge and lagging behind to look a little closer of the texture of the outdoors. One thing that held my interest...
Bad SEO! Bad!
If you’ve ever sat back and wondered how that guy down the street seems to make so much money with what he calls “Work on his website,” you’re probably not familiar with Search Engine...
Otis’ Boxed Life
I have two lives: In the box and out of the box. My time out of the box is governed by the whims, wishes, and needs of my wife and kid. It’s beautiful, but...
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...
Sharing Books winner
Well, when I offered to re-gift my copy of “Another Roadside Attraction,” I knew I was going to have a tough decision on who finally ended up with the book. I’m happy to announce...
Sharing books
Several months ago, my buddy Pauly sent me a copy of “Another Roadside Attraction.” It was a book that, much to my surprise, I had never read. Pauly enclosed a note indicating that he...
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...
Brought up on Sin City
I’ve managed to make optimism a fault. I don’t know how it happened, but some time in the last decade, I’ve figured out a way to find silver linings in sow’s ears (not to...
Foot fetish
Some people don’t like feet. I have a good friend and former work colleague who would literally shudder at the thought of a bare foot. The day a fan wrote and asked for her...
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...
Air marshals compete with virtual sluts for outrage
Updated below “This is the outrage story of the morning,” CNN anchor Tony Harris said. Let me be clear. I rarely take seriously anything that comes out of Harris’ mouth. In the past quarter-century,...