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). E... 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 gre... 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 purch... 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 ba... 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... 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 subjects, I... 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 i... 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 ... Read Full Story

So, first we have to set up some very concise ground rules if anything is going to move in the right direction. I saw three common laws should be good enough to start with. 1. No changing history. 2. Everything starts as it currently is today. 3. There can be minor negativity if it leads to major positivity. Let’s start with number one. Look at all that history behind us? Depending on who you talk to it is anywhere from a few thousand to a few billion years of this, that, and the other ... Read Full Story

So, I decided that I would start with the impossible. That seems logical, right? Utopia, the entire idea of it, is absolutely not possible. Sir Thomas More created the word from the Greek for “not (a) place”, so as to make it as obvious as he could that this is unattainable. So what does that all mean? It means nothing! Because everyone has an imagination and  dreams of what perfection is. Everyone has their own little utopia that exists in the back of their minds and taunts them ... Read Full Story