Rants

  • I Still Hate My Neighbors

    I admit, we’re not the ideal neighbors.  Our yard isn’t lush and immaculate, our bushes aren’t trimmed into lovely little topiaries, sometimes our vines climb over our fence and we’re not the sort to hang holiday appropriate decorations on our door.  However, we’re great if you like people who keep to themselves and won’t insert…

  • OMG SRSLY! Go Get Laid, Dude!

    ** WARNING** Potentially offensive and crass material.  Read at your own risk. Let’s start with a couple of simple statements to get this story started: First, there are a slew of phrases I can’t stand. Among those are any sayings that try to dismissively explain a person’s behavior by mentioning either their menstrual cycle or…

  • Go Suck It, Goth Girl

    Warning: For the usual stuff – content/language/general offensiveness.  It’s a rant.  In other words, I can guarantee many of you won’t enjoy it, but it’s the June Creativity Challenge which means there will probably be something less ranty tomorrow. You’ve been warned. *** Today I planned to write about BBQ and what I did yesterday…

  • Death, Please!

    Earlier this week, an acquaintance of mine blind copied me on a note she’d sent to her co-workers who sit in her immediate work area.  The note started off like many work emails do: “Earlier this morning, someone left half of a cake on the table in our area.” YAY! CAKE!  CAKE IS YUMMY! I…

  • The Show!

    As you may have heard, I was in my first improv show on Friday.  It was FANTASTIC!  (Yes, an all caps worthy kind of performance.)  I must admit, I am in complete and total awe of my classmates who got up there and created an amazingly fun and entertaining show along with the help of some super…

  • Holiday Mugs

    Jay came in the other day and asked, “is there anything I can shoot on Saturday?”  This was in preparation for a day out with his brother and friends where they’re allowed to shoot something other than paper targets.  We’re Texans.  Sometimes inanimate objects find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. The first…

  • Being Human

    Let me start by saying that I have no taste when it comes to television and it’s a rare day that I fess up to what is being recorded on our DVR.  There’s the good stuff that comes on a few weeks out of the year like Dexter or Shameless, which I’m really enjoying at…

  • We Broke Our Waitress: A Christmas Tale

    I had a different idea for my holiday post, but last night my wishes for writing about glad tidings and world peace were unceremoniously slapped aside by a story – a sweet little birthday story. I was born on Christmas Day.  Yes, the day.  And since I was born on Christmas day, the day, I…

  • Geeks Hate Gold Farmers

    I’m a geek.  This is neither exciting nor particularly news.  It’s just a statement of fact and almost all of you who read this site are completely unphased by this revelation.  Here’s my story: I’m one of those socially retarded (oh, I’m sorry if that’s offensive, it was clearly an attack on some woman’s child in Alaska,…

  • And I’m Not Particularly Fond of…

    Last week in Improv a few of us were joking about how lately the focus of the blog has been on things I hate and we agreed that if there could be a blog devoted entirely to things that were “awesome” then there definitely could be room for the not so awesome.  I mulled this over…