Why do the good die young? To get to the other side!

It’s often been noted that great artists and poets and scientists and that ‘creative’ lot seem to do their best work early in life.  (When John Keats was my age, for example, he’d been dead for 14 years.)  This was hammered home to me this morning as I cooked bacon and eggs for SOBUMD, the […]

Harry Potter and the Reproductive Organs

So there I was, minding my own business, when Number-One Son ordered me to listen to him read from the book that SOBUMD and I got him when we were in NYC this weekend. First thing to note is that when I walk downstairs and find him watching TV, he’s usually watching the Discovery Health […]

The Little Red Recovering Co-Dependant Hen

This needs some work, but…. One day as the Little Red Hen was scratching in a field, she found a grain of wheat.   "This wheat should be planted," she said. "Who will help me plant this grain of wheat?"   "Can’t you even plant a freaking grain of wheat by yourself?" said her asshole […]

Your New Year’s Resolution

Should be to read Jasper Fforde, if you haven’t.  It is without doubt possible, though my more staunch fans will scarce believe it, that the man is funnier than I am.  You simply must try him, before the year is out.  You only have 358 days to go!

Plans for the next year

I’m looking forward to having 2008 over and done with.  Right now, I’ve decided that next year I will gather some of my larger friends and, with myself, create a pictoral manual of 300 yoga poses for fat guys drinking beer.  Folks like us need exercise and stretching as well, but we need poses that […]