The Days the Earth stood still

Bored out of my skull today and contemplating the death of my biological father I was at a loss of what to do with my early afternoon. So I got in the car and drove hoping to have some bit of geography spark my interest. I landed in downtown Tampa. My impromptu [...]

I suppose I should feel something…

David V Walles, born 1938 died in 2005 in Maine. I found that out tonight while surfing the net. My real father, the bastard that was the source of so much anger and pain is dead. Has been dead. I never really wanted resolution, never wanted to ask him ‘why’. [...]

Somewhere there’s a landfill full of old skin.

I saw a commercial for Athlete’s Foot that has that football announcer guy (the one that does Ace Hardware commercials too). In the commercial he stands next to 4 cartoon football players with burning feet. The players are drawn in this weird stretched out way, their faces look large and creepy. Then [...]

My kinda town, baby.

The wife and I are quickly approaching our 10th wedding anniversary. Oy. There are rules for the gifts you are suppose to give for this type of thing, but the wife and I are not big on tradition. So, for our 10 year celebration we get Apples. Or Apple. Or [...]

So simple even a caveman could send a valentine

I am watching Caveman’s Valentine, a movie starring Samuel Jackson. Its a little indie film with a weird but powerful punch. Samuel Jackson plays the role of a nutty ex-piano master now schizo homeless dude that is fighting the forces that reside in the Chrysler building (while trying to solve a murder mystery [...]

There’s creepy and then there’s CREEPY

I was watching a commercial for the movie ‘Adam’s Family Values’ for one of the cable channels. This was the first time they were showing this movie and they were quite proud. Christina Ricci appears prominently in the various commercials advertising the movie. And As I saw her doing the Wednesday Adams [...]

Does it hurt when I do this? Tales from the land of the Gimp Hand.

I have a broken wrist. It has been broken since I was 16. It will never heal, only get worse, and as it gets worse will have complications, like arthritis. Sometimes I overwork it and it ‘flares up’ and hurts like hell. Sometimes I sit in a slightly different way while doing [...]

They say you can never go home again, but with a computer and a satellite you can see what color your old house was painted.

Using this site (Big Brother meet Little Brother) I went back to my old haunts in Massachusetts. First I went to Hopkinton, site of all the abuse, but also the source of many fine memories. Using the down-loadable 3-d features its like you are right there (much better then Google’s version). There’s [...]

Reality shows are Realy addictive

Playing in the background today was Bravo’s Top Chef, a reality competitive show were chefs go toe to toe in challenges so that one may claim to be… dum Dum dummmmm the Top Chef! The background quickly became the foreground and copious amounts of drool followed. Now, why Bravo, at one time [...]

Melancholy baby

You know, for someone who like to think he’s in tune with the emotional things floating around the world, I have come to understand that with the exception of my dysfunction related abuse I really don’t know much about my own emotions. The wife and kid went off on vacation with the wife’s mom [...]