If you read me, you know that I hate censorship of any kind. I sympathize with what parents have to deal with raising kids in today’s environment but I don’t want that to encroach on good and ok even bad art. But here is where I draw the line: What in the world is That …
Every time I’m in the bathroom – 10 times a day at least – I have to run water for Blue to drink. She doesn’t even get this excited about food. In general the cats here aren’t nearly as excited about wet food as Bailey was. The second I opened a can Bailey would be …
My newly 28 ex-little league charge Nick Figone wrote me back. I was almost expecting him to write – don’t you have a life? I haven’t seen you in 17 years, but he wrote me the nicest note which I’ll except. It’s one of the nicest things anyone has ever sent me. Brad! I’ve never …
I had a wonderful Algebra II teacher named Louis Gmeindl. He was the Dr. Gregory House of West Geauga High School. People were terrified of his class. Me, I thought everything he ever did was hilarious. Then again, he rarely picked on me. Perhaps the only time I sort of felt the brunt of his …
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Not only am I older than both Elvis and John Lennon when they died, but today is the 28th birthday of one of my first and favorite little league kids, Nick Figone. In this photo, I am more than likely, regaling my team with something that had little to do with baseball. “You guys don’t …
So this is what it’s come to. LeBron James just took his talents to South Beach amid tons of hoopla and plenty of Benjamins. Me? I can’t even give mine away. How pathetic are you when someone doesn’t want you for free? I now feel like a dank ragged homeless man so desperate for work …
I’d like to think it was true love. Getting paid to do something you love is a good idea, but the reason the call it fuck you money is that perhaps the secret is to be able to tell as many people as you can to fuck off and not face any serious repercussions to …
