Deadwood Walking
If you are ever feeling fat and old, go to Deadwood, South Dakota in the summer. Look around the casino, walk the streets. It’s better than time travel.
If you are ever feeling fat and old, go to Deadwood, South Dakota in the summer. Look around the casino, walk the streets. It’s better than time travel.
To give the poor souls some rest from my bullshit words, I have grudgingly added pictures to these rants for the past 4 years.
It’s not going well.
During news coverage of the white nationalists shouting in Charlotte, I heard one really good idea. Yeah, surprised me too.
Of course it was coming from a mouth-breathing racist, so it’s taken me a long time to reconsider if I really agreed with him.
He was standing near a confederate statue and screaming: “This is my heritage. My family fought to save our farm.”
Originally posted on Stephen Metcalfe:
A review on Amazon of my new novel, Attachment Patterns, starts like this – “This book is all that it says it is, well-written, emotionally charged, and a really good read” – and ends like this – “However, the cover is an absolute…
I’ve been hearing how smart artificial intelligence and machine learning “is” since 2008. It seems to be on everybody’s lips 15 years later with chats and pictures coming from a machine that are as good or better than people.
I still wince at the claims.
Grown-ass men tell me to “watch my language” when kids are around. Fuck that.
Ironing is fucking stupid and dangerous, and we should all stop it.
I have a whole category of rants about how bad “Pickleball Sucks,” but I must confess (like Katy Perry) I played a pickleball game, and I liked it.
If another adult “disciplines” your kid, the right response is embarassment — you are raising a little fucker who did something wrong. Just apologize and then shut your mouth.
My tiger-striped chiweenie may not be the only chihuahua-mix named Carol Baskin. The devastating news came as I was picking her up at the groomer.
Originally posted on Stephen Metcalfe:
Promotion. Look it up. “An activity that supports or provides active encouragement for the furtherance of a cause, venture, or aim.” Or more to the point – “the publicization of a product so as to increase sales or public awareness”. In this case,…
The worst part of road biking: flat tires. Fat guys get a shit ton of flat tires. The last two were annoying little piss ant slow leaks
I believe my friends have entered in a conspiracy with my wife and the Lord… to kill me.
I can usually have a good night if I can just get my drugs right. It’s not as easy as it sounds.
I got a new job this year, but I still kinda suck at it. Maybe I will get better with age.
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