I’d Like To Thank All The Crazy People
“We all go a little mad sometimes,” Norman Bates This old world is a crazy place, and it has been ever since the first brute stood erect on two legs and bashed his buddy’s brains out with a rock, but...
View ArticleThe Election and Man-eating Dogs
African painted dogs aren’t much to look at. Neither imposingly large nor possessing an impressive bearing, the wild dogs resemble stringy, mangy mutts that have worked their way through the shelter...
View ArticleComing Down A Chimney Near You: My Night As Santa
Maureen began her retail career, younger and prettier, behind the Le Metier De Beaute counter at Neiman Marcus. She moved on several years later to sell pricey dresses in one of the designer boutiques...
View ArticleAsk Alexios: A Christmas Surprise
Alexios, I have been going out with Mora for 3 years. Things are going good and we get along and everything. We always go to Midnight Mass with her family on Christmas Eve then over to her Aunt June’s...
View ArticleTV Time: Finding Bigfoot. Something To Believe In
I have never worn my hair in a mullet, nor have I danced the Macarena. When the Romans went crazy over Isis, I shook my head with derision and ignored the foolishness just as I would do thousands of...
View Articlemartyrs
Martyrs are venerated above all other saints. Piety and a talent for a few convincing magic tricks or a familiar manner with animals pale in comparison to an agonizing execution carried out before a...
View ArticleTrue Love
Love. You love your children and your husband, too… but you also love pizza. Which do you love most? Who do you love more, your wife or your mistress, or is your love of football greater than the...
View ArticleReal Life/Real Death
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players…” –William Shakespeare The Bard of Avon’s wry perception was certainly more astute than the words of any politician, prophet or...
View ArticleParallel Lines
I’m not a nostalgic creature who pines for yesteryear or a by-gone day. I don’t look back on any particular age with maudlin longing, but even a heartless fiend such as myself isn’t completely immune...
View ArticleHere Today, Gone Tomorrow
I’ve been away, gone, AWOL, hiding out, undetectable, secreted off to an undisclosed location, POOF! vanished without a trace. Here today, gone tomorrow. Fact is often much more mundane than fiction,...
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