When my brother, David, went into Marine Boot Camp, he joined with a friend of his, Ryan Burgess. They both came from small towns in Michigan - David from Midland and Ryan from Hope - and, together, endured the hell of becoming a Marine, completing a huge rite of passage of which both should be extremely proud. During camp, they each made lists of ( Read more... )

Just the other night, I rewatched the brilliant 1986 film THE FLY with everyone's favorite 6'4" bug-eyed, eccentric actor Jeff Goldblum. If you haven't seen it - please put it near the top of your queue now - Goldblum plays a scientist who accidentally fuses his DNA with that of a housefly, and subsequently morphs slowly into a giant, Goldblum- ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago, I came into work on a Friday morning looking rather forward to the weekend. I had worked all of the previous weekend so I had a lot of productive plans prepared for this coming weekend. It was about ten am that I received the fateful news from my boss, Chuck, that I'd be "getting a truck to help Martha move an 11-foot table ( Read more... )

If you don't know already, I usually go sing karaoke at my favorite LA haunt, Sports Harbour, nearly every Tuesday night. It's almost aways a rockin time, and occasionally an amazingly memorable evening. This past Tuesday was a bday celebration of sorts for Lance and myself. It was a small crowd - turns out that when it rains in LA, NO ONE ( Read more... )

I had half of a blog written out last week after an unfortunate discussion ended up being hurtful to a good friend of mine - but now I just don't know that I have the energy to delve into this topic again. I think one good thing did come of the ordeal in that I now feel much less heated about the topic and I feel that it opened my eyes to my own ( Read more... )

Leave it to one of the most forgotten states (I dare you to think of its capital without Googling it) to be on the leading edge of a growing Conservative moment trying to overturn Roe v. Wade. This state is so backwards - sorry, I meant to say, obsessed with "fundamental family values" - that even the Democratic party is in favor of outlawing ( Read more... )

I'm sure most of you have heard about outrage from the Muslim community over a series of cartoons published in a Danish newspaper, one being a depiction of the Prophet Mohammad with a bomb in his turban. There has been rioting all over the world in protest of these cartoons. Danish Embassies in many Muslim countries have been attacked by protests ( Read more... )

When I got into my accident, the police arrived. I kind of had an idea of what would take place, but most of what I figured would happen didn't. They never made a report. Turns out they only do reports if there are injuries or if someone was drinking. Thankfully, neither of those pertained to my situation, so they just exchanged information for ( Read more... )

Just when I thought things were looking up for once...

( ...this had to happen )

Kudos to anyone who can figure out where my subject movie quote is from ( Read more... )