(Title stolen from, but unrelated to, Angel Dust) Do you know who you are? Of course you do. You can look around at your life and see the answer as plain as day. Your job, your home, your (sex) toys, the people you choose to be stuck with, it’s all kinda just a physical manifestation, or representation …
(Title stolen from but unrelated to the Misfits) I’m not one of those who thinks, ‘back in my day things were better; men were men, women were women, and music was music.’ Mostly, the only folks who think ‘those were the good old days’ are white, heterosexual, males who’re pouting that now it’s their turn to let …
(Tidal Stolen From FireWater) In spite of all the shit talking I do about how much better life would be if we’d just get over our hand-me-down hang-ups I always try and avoid thinking in terms of our lower-selves vs. higher-selves or our animal-nature vs. human-nature, or any of that insufferable out-dated black-and-white-thinking bullshit. Those …
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. …
People Suck – or at least that’s what I hear from; friends, coworkers, folks I randomly eavesdrop on in public, and of course, Bill Hicks. It makes me wonder, is this some original-sin type of self-loathing, or a me-against-the-world kinda hyper-elitism? Are these men, woman, and children admitting they too are a people, and that they …