I owe a major shout-out to majesticarky on this one, whose Pokemon post from Week 9 and subsequent goofball comment thread dragged this particular screwball war story to the surface of my brain.I was that annoying little 13-year-old kid who'd hang out in arcades by the Mortal Kombat machine waiting for people to come along and meet their downfall at my hands ( Read more... )

So I was a brainiac in high school. And by "brainiac", I mean "shameless, unapologetic geek." Not a whole lot has changed really, but one thing that always simultaneously intrigued, annoyed, and baffled me about the high school social pecking order was how certain individuals felt entitled to use and exploit the heck out of geeks when computer ( Read more... )

{WARNING: Adult content ahoy! Immature adult content. But adult content none the less!My other two entries this week have been fairly serious minded compared to the usual zaniness I tend to fling around this place, so I figure the best way to restore balance to the Force is to make sure this post is naught but a heavy dose of good ol' fashioned ( Read more... )

I'm sure this will come as a great surprise to many of you, but I was a bit of a prankster in high school.

( Okay, I'll wait a second while you recover from the shock. )

{written for therealljidol topic "Food Memories"}

[The story you are about to read may or may not be true. Names have been changed to protect the guilty. And besides, I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations on this shit has long since expired. Kind of like the milk and tomatoes...]

iDuring my freshman year of college, my best friend Amy worked as a ( Read more... )