I’m prone to motion sickness. I come from a long line of backseat booters. Anymore, the only time I get motion sickness is on a plane or on an ocean-going vessel. I don’t worry so much about the boats because I’ve only been on an ocean-going vessel in choppy seas four times in my life.  […]

A lot of folks don’t know there is more than one internet. What we know as “The Internet” was invented as a way for university wonks to log into each other’s mainframes. Much of the propagation of the backbone infrastructure was the result of the US Military creating a failsafe way to exchange redundantly packeted […]

First, a couple items of business. The sucktastic part of a blog is the writer knows he’s going to spend X number of weeks or months writing for absolutely no one. I’ve been to this rodeo a time-or-two. It takes a long time to seed a steady readership. Given how out-of-practice I was at shitting […]

My Beautiful Wife watches Rocky movies the way old ladies watch the 700  Club.  If one of the six Rocky movies is on cable, channel surfing will cease and desist. She will—WE will watch that goddamn movie from whatever point we pick it up until the credits finish rolling. I love my wife. The Rocky Thing™ […]

I am ridiculously self-destructive. The nature of the scorpion. Why? That is a hundred other blog posts. See yesterday’s post on the Hail Query if you have any doubt. Which, if you know me, you shouldn’t. I’m not a fan of Russell Brand, but I’m fascinated. He’s bizarre looking. I’m not on his comedy frequency […]