This past weekend the in-laws were in town. My missus and step-mom went shopping for porcelain kitties in the quaint shops of Old St. Charles. I have not been down there in a decade. The bastards went and doubled the effective length of the commercial district. I remember it being a healthy walk. The reality […]
Yeah, this is a hate post. I hate these two muddy foyers. I really do. As a matter of fact, I hated them as an abstract concept long before I hated them as specific human (mostly) beings. For a year I’ve had an image folder on my USB drive titled “Asshole Marketing Clickbait Images.” Every […]
I was bummed that the Supreme Court ruled against Aereo this summer. Aereo had not yet expanded to my town, and now it never will. I’m a cord cutter. I don’t have cable TV, but I do have a big internet pipe. The internet pipe feeds Internet-available television content to my Roku. I also have […]
I am eaten up by seasonal depression at the moment. I am a writer and I don’t have words to express how vehemently I hate October. I despise October more than I loathe December, mostly because we are as far away from spring as we can be at this moment. As far away from the high […]
WARNING: This is one of my trademark epically-long loopback posts, with abrupt, Runaway Mine Train jostles and jerks. If you stay with me long enough, I’ll get you back to the loading platform from which we depart… Now. [Cue the hiss of the pneumatic lowering the coaster onto the tracks.] Walter O’Brien is a […]
