First of all, yeah, I get it. I'm old. You kids get off my damn lawn blah-blah-blah. Tastes are subjective and everyone likes different things and I know I am not the age group being targeted by today's musicians of any genre ( Read more... )

Lately I have been in a bad place, mentally. I've struggled with depression for as long as I can remember. I can remember feeling like this as a very young child, with the inability to even begin to express what I was feeling. Perhaps that's why words are so important to me. I remember feeling something so large and consuming inside me, and being ( Read more... )

I don’t know which customers bug me more, the ones who don’t have any idea what they want when they come into the store (a specialty store, btw, not a general whatever-the-hell you need store) or the ones who obviously don’t have another soul in their life and who are desperately craving human contact like a heroin addict in the third day of ( Read more... )

Give yourself a cookie if you know where I got that title. If you guessed country music, get yourself another cookie. If I haven’t completely turned you off yet, keep reading. There’s some good stuff ahead, I promise ( Read more... )

I’m a very easily entertained mammal. When I was young, my mom used to put Scotch tape on my hands on car trips to keep me occupied. It’s not much different now. Little things amuse me. I’ve been known to lose myself a couple of hours just watching a fish tank. With one fish in it.

The idea for this blog came a couple of weeks ago. I was on an ( Read more... )

Being a writer, words are my game. I gotta know ‘em. Not only do I have to know every permutation of, say, the word night, I have to be able to bust out just the right one at just the right time. So needless to say, I’m a nerd as quick with a dictionary as an Old West sharpshooter with a six iron.

That being said, there are some words I’ve grown to ( Read more... )