Category Archives: Rants
The Obesity Non-Crisis
It seems all that’s plastered over the news these days is the obesity crisis. Granted, I don’t watch or read news, but that’s my general sense as I flick past these channels in search of SportsCenter. Michelle Obama is up … Continue reading
Pro Bowl: List or Flag, Period
Everything about the Pro Bowl is wrong. The entire rationale for it, aside from one more opportunity to squeeze cash out of the American viewing public like were all a collective $9B sponge, is flawed and stupid. The Pro Bowl, … Continue reading
Baldness and Other White People Problems
Last night I Netflixed a film called HappyThankYouMorePlease, a pretty heavy-handed and overdone piece of work presumably intended to be Josh Radnor’s Garden State. While I could devote an entire post to what amounts in my mind to a pseudo-indie … Continue reading
Doomsday Possibly the Worst Thing to Happen to the World
Bold, I know. From what I gather from theorists, it could come in any form, but it is coming. Black hole, geomagnetic reversal, aliens, solar flares, something. And by the end of it we’ll all be dead. Or enslaved, or … Continue reading
Headshots for a Satan Audition
I am by no means a professional photographer. I don’t own an expensive camera or any professional editing software. It has been years since I developed my own film. So we can all definitively establish that I am by no … Continue reading
I Hope People Tailgate My Funeral
A lot of people consider the idea of thinking about your own death to be morbid. I don’t really spend time thinking about how I might one day die, and certainly don’t want to be dead. But the funeral, I … Continue reading
One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap…for Michael Bay
Yup, today we’re talking about moon landing conspiracies. Why these things exist or are so pervasive amongst a percentage of the population I’ll never know. It’s a nice story I guess, a nice example of the government screwing over America … Continue reading
Resolutions
For many, New Year’s is a very special time. A time for celebration, hope renewed, and the annual realization that absolutely nobody knows the words to Auld Lang Syne. Still, it’s the sentiment of this particular time I’d like to … Continue reading
Enough Already with the Goddamn Robot
Honestly, I don’t have too much more to say about this issue than the title suggests. I’m not one who often rips up dance floors, or even occupies them. But I do notice, during the times that I do find … Continue reading