A couple months ago I wrote a post called top nine things I hate about winter. It was the nine reasons I abhor the cold frozen months. Since I am lazy and people seemed to enjoy my loathing of winter, I decided I would do it seasonally. Last week was the official change from winter […]
Last month, I made a plea to my fellow fat guys to wear their pants in the right place. The one little change makes an incredible impact on how the world sees us. But, my fat friends, it is only the beginning. There are more tricks we can do to make the world see us as […]
I like to think of myself as a Renaissance man with mad skills and endless depths of wisdom. I’m not but I like to think it’s true. I like to pretend I have an endless amount of time, skill, and creativity. But, I don’t. There are only so many hours in a day and my […]
It was a dark time for America. The cultural highs of the 1980s were coming to an end, taking with them the merchandise driven super cartoons. The internet was still in its infancy and only the nerdiest of us could use it to find pornography. And, worst of all cable television was only available in […]
I love television. It is my second favorite medium for story consumption right behind audiobooks. Well-written television shows are masterpieces. But, when they aren’t well written, they are dangerous and destructive garbage leading our society into a dystopian future so mind-numbingly horrible it makes Idiocracy look like a nieve dreamland for tomorrow. Most television is written poorly. […]
I’ve been disgruntled of late. Despite my comforts and personal stability, I can’t stop feeling like I’m staring into the oblivion. I’m constantly anxious. Terrified, really. Terrified or complacent. I bounce back and forth between the two. Neither is good for me. So, I will try something new in my life and go looking for […]
I am a TV junkie. There. I said it. Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery, right? No. I will never recover. Don’t want to. I like television. There’s just too much good storytelling there. Some people even say we’re living in a golden age of television. I can’t speak to that because […]
I’ve never been a fan of winter. When I was a kid, winter was the time you had to go to school. If you weren’t at school, you were indoors. I was a kid back in the dial-up internet days, so I couldn’t just spend hours plugged into Facebook or streaming Netflix. I had to do […]
I read. A lot. According to my Goodreads, I read 112 new books in 2016. I want to point out that emphasis on “new.” Goodreads only lets you count a book once, and I tend to re-read some of my favorites on an annual basis. Unfortunately, I don’t quite have enough to put together that […]
If you’re not from KC and you’ve never been to KC, you might be part of that 90% of the world that thinks of it as “flyover country.” I can’t blame you. For some reason, people hear the “Kansas” part of “Kansas City” and get the image of Dorothy running from a twister at the […]