Subtle Bluntness

It’s cold and snowing outside.  This is my kind of weather.  There’s a brisk north wind, the snow is practically blowing sideways, and it’s just cold and sharp and definitively winter outside.  It’s days like today I wish I could have my life narrated by The Voice of God himself, John Facenda. Walking in slow [...]

I was sitting in the break room at work today, enjoying a salad.  One of the people I work with came in, and the first thing she said to me was this: “Ron, you look more and more like Jesus every day.” I glanced up at her, gave her my most beatific smile, and said [...]

Sometimes I feel like NaBloPoMo is a great thing, because it’s making me flex my creative muscles in a way that isn’t related to gadgets, sports, geekery, or cats riding vacuums.  Other times, I feel like it’s a terrible thing because by the time I get done with gadgets, sports, unusual stuff, and this, I [...]

When I left my place of employment today, what did I see fluttering and flying about in the air?  Snow, of course.  It looked like an explosion in a candy factory, and little white clumps of confectioner’s sugar and gel ignite were raining down everywhere. Somehow, I managed to resist the urge to careen through [...]

It’s kind of amazing to me when you write something and it affects people.  Whether it affects them in a deep and emotional way, like yesterday’s post, or if it irritates them by criticizing their favorite game, like that time all those people told me I suck and should die in a fire. I’m kind [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about bloggers and blogging.  I read something somewhere about how our little writing hobby is becoming Serious Business for companies, and I know personally some of the folks I’ve worked with have had the goal of turning blogs into cash via social media and the like.  That’s all well and [...]

I have a new band I’ve recently added to the list of bands I want to see live before I die.  Sadly, they’ve been in town several times (usually with The Rev. Horton Heat or Hank III) and for some reason or another I never got to check them out.  I will next time.   I [...]

Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be a post about the great coffee and prunes debacle of 2008.  I’ve completely learned my lesson when it comes to that shit (sorry).  No, this is a post about the complicated and unpleasant process of transferring this blog from WordPress to the Dot Com. When I’d try to [...]

Here’s the podcast.  Like I said, it’s a bit rambly, but it’s funnier than the Tony Rock Project, which is quite possibly the worst show I’ve ever seen (and I watched Cavemen).  I’m proud of all the vomiting celebrity/sports figure references in this one, spurred on by Donovan McNabb’s tendency to suck and barf under [...]

Rich and I did the SportsBastards podcast tonight.  I don’t know why, but we seem to have a better, sharper show when there’s a third person involved.  There was no StatGirl tonight, sadly, so it was just us, and the thing seemed to ramble a bit.  Kind of like the blog, but worse, because there’s [...]