There are two kinds of men in this world: Those who have cut down a tree, and those who are smart enough to pay some other poor bastard to do it. This weekend I traveled to The Eleven Acre Wood, new homestead of my Father-in-Law. His house is under construction. There are a line of […]

I have absolutely no plans for the weekend. Not one. That’s sad. Maybe I’ll go to the gun range and send 30 cent nuggets of my paycheck sailing downrange into papers adorned with concentric circles. I haven’t bought any of my bridge building materials yet, so that’s a no-go. I guess I could gas up […]

On the old blog, Thursday was Hot Chick Thursday: Celebrity crushes. Page Six girls. Photoplays of the flavor-of-the-week in a bikini. Hot Chick Thursday blogs wrote themselves. Alas. Half of Selfie is the story of Neal, a young man who is trying to be a better man. He’s trying to move past his obsession with […]

First order of business: Dear Fuzzy’s Taco Shop in St. Louis. You knew you were being cute when you filled out the name of your restaurant on the paperwork to register your business with the Missouri AG. You signed off on the lascivious tongue-shaped jalapeno logo. Fine. Sure. Go with God. Perhaps one day I […]

We have a movie theater in the basement. The Scotsman Theater. It’s a very nice thing to have a theater in your basement. For the most part, we don’t see movies at conventional theaters any more. We live and die by the DVD release schedule. Remember how there were no good movies released between February […]