So I just got back from a stretch in the pen. Hard time, as they call it. By which, of course, I mean three hours wandering around inside a Washington State Correctional Facility, and having the following myths about prison violently dispelled ( Read more... )

( It's been a good sports week for me. )

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People just don't want to accept trade offs anymore. Lately I've seen a rash of articles pointing an angry finger at God over the Asian tsunami disaster, as in "Where have you been?" What exactly was God doing when tidal waves struck without warning, killing 100,000 people and leaving their orphaned children to be "claimed" by pedophiles and ( Read more... )

Well, the future, immediate and not so immediate, is guaranteed to hold some interesting prospects for yours truly. In keeping with tradition they will probably be mostly unpleasant, or at least mildly disconcerting, but there are some bright lights along the way ( Read more... )

Me: Check out these new Nike shoes I got for half price at Gart's going-out-of-business sale!
My Dad: Yeah they were probably made by some guy in Malaysia who's now belly up in the river.
Then, after seeing the look of horror on my face, adds: Well, let's hope he was hard at work at the factory and not hanging out at the beach.

I've been having trouble sleeping lately; you know, that weird feeling where you're tired all day and the minute you get into bed your body's like "let's go run around!" And when this happens, because I refuse to move my carcass, my mind starts going off in all kinds of wild directions ( Read more... )

I, like many others, was embarassingly hoodwinked by the "isLove Generator." While it seemed to be reaching into my deepest soul and tapping into the Mookie Mystique, it was in fact reaching into my interests block and selecting randomly. However, I maintain that this is as clear an indication of the Mookie Mystique's metaphysical marvel as any ( Read more... )

      mookie blaylock is lovebrought to you by the isLove Generator

This thing is uncanny! I mean, are you kidding me? Mookie Blaylock is my #1 homey! I'm serious, maybe I haven't told you all the history of The Mookie Mystique. But another time. I have to sleep now.

So I've noticed this tendency to begin my entries with the word "so." I guess the reason I do this is to sound conversational, congenial, to invite you into this little cosmos in a way that implies that we are friends (which we most certainly are not) or at the very least equals. Ha! Anyway, I will try not to do this anymore, as I'm afraid I'm ( Read more... )