Archive for December, 2008

Happy Reclamation Day!

Remember, remember the fifth of December, the day the drink came back again. Prohibition left us with a gangster culture that degraded into cinematic nonsense like Malibu’s Most Wanted and the existential bane that is NASCAR. Proof enough that forcing a nation to go without beer for the better part of 14 years was just [...]

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The Wall and the Well

I went home last night with every intention of doing a great deal of writing. After all, there I was on a Wednesday, the girlfriend at work until late, and I hadn’t put anything up on my site that day. It’s not as if I didn’t have a great long list of material to write. [...]

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Rise of the ZomWii and Tales of a Wannabe Bloodsucker

On Monday I received a text message that had perhaps one of the least welcomed post scripts ever. “No, I had a sandwich, ps the wii is broken.” I’d seen this coming for a while. Why? Our Wii was purchased used. Not “New in Box” used, but rather drug from the backroom of a Gamestop [...]

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How’s Your Waistline? Water Cooler Talking Points

Hopefully you made it through the long weekend without suffering too much of a diet induced coma. Me? I made it through just fine, got a bit of work done, and most importantly, got a fair bit of rest in. So, as you’re rubbing your eyes with fingers perhaps still covered in stuffing and thinking [...]

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