You step into a murky casino filled with smoke of many colors. Expensive cigars, cheep cigarettes, pipes, hashish, cloves, marijuana, incense, opium, and then some. The combination of scents isn’t over-all not displeasing, just vivid. As people walk by, the swiftly moving ones leave trails of cleaner fresh air in their wake. Along with smoke …
Anyone who tries to tell you that humans have descended from apes is full of shit! Humans are still apes. We’re just slightly more evolves chimps who’ve domesticated themselves out of convenience. In fact, genetically people are closer to Chimpanzees/Bonobos than the Indian elephant is to an African elephant. Our particular branch of evolution started …
Picture it: It’s the end of the month, around the end of the year, and all your bills come due; rent, phone, holidays, heat… that embarrassing trip to the Emergency Room to have that thing dislodged. And to top it all off your stuffed animal decoupaging business has yet to take off. You’re strapped for …
(Title stolen from, and yet unrelated to, the Mountain Goats) Now that I am middle aged – the summer of life, I like to think – I have finally figured out what I want to be when I grow… Upper. I wanna be a heretic. I am not saying this to sound cool or shocking. …
As you can imagine, my last post inspired a few folks with differing opinions to pose some counterpoints. Some threats, some propositions, and a few that with enough lube could fit snugly into either category. To paraphrase one sent by someone backing around Germany, “If people are capable of so much, why don’t they use their …