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The Big Twenty-Four

Another year has gone by and I am once again typing to the sweet melodies of Slipknot, with a glass of Jack Daniels to the left and my MacBook at my right. This birthday unfortunately will be plagued with stuffing my nose into a physics book learning about electromagnetism, but I figured I would take [...]

The Month Of September 2009

It has been nearly a month since I have slept a full night on an actual mattress. During Labor Day weekend, about a month ago, the unit above my apartment sprung a leak in the bathroom and an existing problem got worse. A small spot of mold turned into a swarm, spreading from the upper [...]

Envy The Brainsick

There are times that I wish I could be addicted to something. While hanging out with the local chumps I hear the war stories of people that were an addict. There is nothing better than listening to someone recount an experience that led them through the streets of Philadelphia on a path of destruction to [...]

Beating Children Should Not Be Incognito

When living in an apartment it has generally been an acceptable practice to take out the garbage on time, pay the electric and gas bills on time, and generally be a good neighbor to all of your fellow homosapiens. Another general practice is to make sure that the children that you have bore both in [...]

Old Isn’t A Band-Aid For New

As I have gotten older and older there have been less and less on television that interests me to a point where I would call myself a “follower” of a particular television show. While watching some Saturday morning cartoons I ask myself: Were cartoons this horrible when I was watching them years ago? But after [...]

I Am Back

The inner writer inside of me has been dormant for many years now. While in college I wrote a couple of pieces that I would chuckle over, but nothing that will giving my ego something akin to a raging hard-on. I was a columnist for my university’s newspaper, eventually an executive editor without the title, [...]