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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Being a pro football coach is like being a commander on a battlefield, except it pays better.

The Post Apocalyptic Guide to the Good Life

Excerpt from a section on Mutants:
Mutants come in many shapes and sizes and therein lies the tragic crux of their condition. Although certain deformities appear more frequently there is no single trait common to all mutants. Instead it is their rejection from human society which gives them a shared identity.

The main thing hard work has given me is a desire to criticize and punish the lazy.

Growing up is hard. You have to balance work with a personal life, keep your house clean and remember to go the bathroom. Basically it’s just like the Sims but in real life.

When you study philosophy in college people always ask “what kind of a job will you get with that?” But in this economy I have a ready reply which is, “Same thing as you. Nothing.”

Me on the Radio

Today I’m on pirate cat radio at 9am PST, listen here

Spite

If these walls could talk I’d have to kill them too.

I think the appeal of a blank slate is not the fresh possibilities but the fact that you’re no longer staring at your failures.

It’s always fun to go to a music open mic and request your favorite songs… on the jukebox.

Pleasure and pain seem not like distinct entities so much as a single system of Good Cop Bad Cop.

Nevermind: a micro sketch

A room with the living room furniture of the working class. Andy is thin and well dressed, his stocky father, Leo, sits, both hairy arms crossed over his chest, next to Andy’s worried looking mother, Helen.
Andy: Mom, Dad, there’s something I’ve needed to tell you for a long time- jeez this is hard- and you [...]

An ironic t-shirt typically has a double meaning. In addition to whatever the shirt says it usually means you’re an ass.

If someone uses fire to fight fire she will likely end up with just a bigger conflagration. But at least she can say to herself, “I’d like to think my fire won.”

Doctor: I’ll have to listen to your heart.
Patient: It’ll just say “quit the job and burn down the building.”

If there were any words I lived by they would have to form a paradox.

Mario the sexual predator

The desire for sex ruins life.

If a man treats women like objects then the most generous assumption is that he’s too stupid to know the difference.

Dreams, fuel and courage: the three key ingredients of insurance fraud.

Sunday Edition

So I took a week off without warning anyone. Honestly it started as “Oh my god I’m overworked and exhausted; how am I going to catch up on the site?” and then Tuesday evening I just gave up and decided it was a one week vacation (in addition to the two entries I missed the [...]