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I like to say that I am a writer. I guess I am, in some capacity. Maybe I just do not understand what it means to give that moniker to yourself. I know that I should be writing every day and reading just as much but I…don’t. I just don’t. It isn’t that I don’t have the time or energy, really, it is simply that my drive seems to be consistently and completely evaporated. I like to say that I know a thing or two about emotion. I probably do not. It is one of the fundamental building blocks of... Read Full Story

NOTE: changed the title, not the link itself, because I realized I wasn’t talking about the economy at all. If someone walked up to me on the street and told me that they were going to give me 500 million dollars, I would have no idea what to do with that kind of money in my wildest dreams. Even if it was a fraction of that (say, 50 million), I’d still be flabbergasted and confused. Breaking it down, that is around 20,000 bucks a week for 49 years (or working from age 16 to 65). Even if... Read Full Story

It is perhaps, looking back on the last 8 years of my life, the one thing I wish I would have paid closer attention to. Part of the problem might be that I never left home to go to college (campus was four blocks away) and I took little notice about all the little things in life - like laundry, dirty dishes, and etc. Anyone can clean a room, and some people can easily clean a whole house. I think I can “clean a house”, but things like laundry and dishes drive me up the wall. I grew up with... Read Full Story

I hate to say it, but nobody cares about advertising anymore. It is all garbage. Coca-Cola shouldn’t advertise. Pepsi shouldn’t advertise. Most restaurants shouldn’t advertise. Most retail chains - forget it. M&Ms? EL Fudge? Pillsbury? Does anyone really need to see a commercial at this point? Even the Super Bowl, the mecca of television commercials, is basically more about how goofy they can be rather than the actual product being thrown out there for the world to purchase. I can say... Read Full Story

There are days where my brain reacts to almost any subject like a thesaurus rather than a dictionary or encyclopedia. It takes the subject and says “okay, that links to this and that, and those two link to these four,” and so on and so forth. It is a psychological test, really. “What does _____ make you think of first?” and what comes out could be anything. It takes something ’special’ to go from slide rules to Pete Rose’s penchant for sliding into bases head-first instead of feet-first... Read Full Story

So, the fine people at WordPress have a way to tell me if someone found this blog by way of a search engine. They are also able to tell me what keywords the person used. Someone yesterday (or possibly the day before thanks to their wacky time-coding) searched for “food court landscape themes” and happened upon my post about Mystic Falls. Seriously. I have yet to figure out exactly what one would be searching for if they searched for that. I am not sure there are any websites based around... Read Full Story

I pride myself on being an idea man. I pride myself on being able to just pump them out no matter what the reasoning. They might not all be perfect, and most will be downright horrible, but I at least like having that ability to find them somewhere in the deep recesses of my mind. Today, I have none. I have things I *could* do, sure, but nothing I really want to step up and commit to. Most of them, like more stuff on Mystic Falls and my ever-expanding list of hacky stand-up comedy... Read Full Story

I felt like I should back of all the crazy touchy subjects, at least for a day or two, and talk about my own Utopian vision. In reality it is not exactly a better world, or even a better country, state, or even city. Well, it might be about the size of a small city by the time my mind is wrapping around it. To those that know me on a personal level, they know my love of Disney, specifically Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. I know almost everything there is to know about the place that... Read Full Story

After yesterday’s posts, a few people said “ooh, racism, that is a touchy subject.”  So what? Isn’t that the point? We can talk about another touchy subject - abortion. Pro-life, pro-choice, whatever. It is not a blanket yes or no issue. It never will be. Stop dreaming. Abortion, just like the death penalty, should always be looked at on a case-by-case basis. I can hear the people now, “it’s murder, someone could raise that child if the mother didn’t want to.” While that is a good point, it... Read Full Story