Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution

When I first contemplated taking the National Blog Posting Month challenge I figured that it would be much easier than taking the Slim Fast challenge or the Pepsi challenge. And it was. Because blogging is fun AND easy.
So, here we are, 30 days later. Let’s recap the month one last time (by category):
Music Essays
It takes [...]

How to Stay Famous

One of the problems with today’s hyper-speed news cycle is that people barely get their full 15 minutes of fame anymore. One minute you’re surrounded by the paparazzo everywhere you go and before you know it – poof! – nobody cares about you anymore and you’re forced to rush out a bad memoir named after [...]

NaBloPoMo Week 4 Recap

Well, the month of November – and the silly game of NaBloPoMo – is almost over and I, for one, am looking forward to returning to a lax posting schedule.
The 4th week of National Blog Posting Month featured a mix of new and classic essays that were sure to please and/or offend everyone, including Brits, [...]

Getting Old Ain’t Hard to Do

While many people will scratch and fight and basically do anything they can to avoid getting old, there is a small minority of individuals (okay, just me) that actually enjoys aging. I’m guessing it’s because as a child I was blessed with three glorious old men in my life – my two dearly departed grandfathers [...]

Go Shopping Already, People!

When former President Chucklehead instructed us to go shopping in the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks he was rightfully derided for suggesting such an insignificant response to the most horrific event of most of our lifetimes.
More than 8 years later, I find myself in the awkward position of echoing the advice of the dunderhead-in-chief. Now, [...]

A Beard’s Life

One of the best things about being a man is having facial hair. Not only is growing a beard totally fun but it also allows a guy to completely change his look. Unlike women who can color and cut their hair to mix things up, most adult men just don’t have enough head hair to [...]

Having a Fine Time Doing Time

I’ve always thought that I could really succeed at prison life. And I don’t mean the local lock-up or even the county jail. I’m talking medium-to-maximum security prison-prison. Now, I’m not saying that I want to go to prison, nor am I implying that I accidentally killed a man in Boise and deserve to go [...]

Strangers I Love: Old Man Jogger

Dear Old Man Jogger,
Please know that today and forevermore I love you.
I love how you jog up and down my street every day. Well, I suspect that you run every day but I don’t actually see you every day. Perhaps you take a day or two off a week. You probably should. You don’t want [...]

Cross-Cultural Intellectual Relativity Theory (C.C.I.R.T.)

I’ve been hard at work in the lab lately doing some landmark research on cross-cultural intellectual relativity theory (C.C.I.R.T.) and wanted to share some of my initial findings just in case any readers had valuable insights to share before I submitted my final report to the appropriate scientific journals.
I believe that I have proven, beyond [...]

NaBloPoMo Week 3 Recap

It’s hard to believe that we’ve already finished 3 weeks of the exciting National Blog Posting Month contest! We put forth another Herculean effort this week, delivering a lethal combination of laughs, intrigue and snark.
The week commenced with a brief celebration of real food, by which I mean, fake foods, in the essay called In [...]