Category: Words
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We Get What We Deserve
Today’s Denver Post dot com had this as a BREAKING headline: BREAKING: People: Britney and beau skip to Big Apple They hate us for our freedoms.
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The Wire
As reported on The Gawker, AP news has pretty much set the standard for us as a nation of dumb asses. YeeHah.
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That Sucking Sound
The USA Dollar is worth nothing these days and one of the consequences is pricey travel costs to Europe. I like to travel to Europe yearly if I can swing it work-ways. However, I was pricing tickets to Amsterdam for an early 2008 trip and was blown away by airline ticket prices. Last time I…
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Adios Evel
Evel Knievel dead at 69. Back in the 1970s, when I could actually skateboard, Evel was killing it on the motorcycle daredevil circuit. A mainstay on ABC’s Wild World of Sports, Mr. Knievel jumped stuff on his motorcycle. Very cool, indeed.
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Happy Buy Nothing Day
Today is International Buy Nothing Day I’ll be participating…well, I might buy a few pints later during happy hour. It’ll be at a local dive bar, so I’m not a hypocrite. Really. I’m standing by that. Black Friday my ass. Why would anyone submit themselves to crowds of greeded out “bargain” hunters…I shudder thinking of…
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RIP Joe Nuxhall
When I was a kid I lived in Lexington, Ky. Our closest MLB team was the Cincinnati Reds. I grew up with the great Big Red Machine and their radio announcer Joe Nuxhall. I was always a fan of Joe. I always enjoyed his gin soaked delivery. Joe Nuxhall, the youngest player in major league…
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A Good Sunday Morning
I woke up on this Sunday to the usual prodding of my fuck-head cat. Of course he wanted food, his modus-operandi being – wake the asshole human up, get fed, go back to sleep. Which he did. So, I made some coffee and opened my front window curtains to an excellent snow fall happening. I…
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1978
In 1978 I lived on a farm, I had a religiously insane mother who made my life a living hell, and all I wanted to do was skateboard and get the fuck out the house. One night I was watching Saturday Night Live and this came on, it changed my life.
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Home of the Free, My Ass
Recently a video producer from the Netherlands sent me some footage on DVD via the mail. I received the package yesterday. The envelope was delivered open. Luckily the DVD’s were intact, but it is still disturbing that the envelope was open. Then on the inside flap, written in obviously not the senders hand writing was…
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R.I.P. Michael Jackson
Beer Hunter. Died a few days ago at 65 of a heart attack. His books, tee vee shows and love of beer and whisky was both inspiring and infectious. Cheers, Michael.