Random Brain Droppings

  At the start of the 2000s and the 2010s some assholes published books saying that those decades would bring unprecedented prosperity for t...

 For me anything that falls under the umbrella of “popular culture” is something I usually try and ignore. Whatever popular culture once was...

  There was once a time when the serving in the Army National Guard was fun. But that was largely before my first enlistment in 1984 when th...

  Got hit with a toothache this morning and I've given up on trying to post anything this weekend. Going to take a long nap and hope my ...

  "Hyperpig" by Ducard84 on Deviantart . Check out his other work   My winter-induced inactivity is still a problem. Spent Friday ...

  How do you explain the existence of something like Donald Trump? I admit that I am bias but to the best of my knowledge he has no redeemab...

     As usual for me, August brings nothing but endless yard work and long, hot humid days with me dreaming of cooler weather. That was the ...

Giving myself a little credit here but my imagination is one of my few developed talents. So much that my creativity even extends to the dr...

One of my repeated topics for my mental offal is how I have seriously doubts as to whether human beings are an intelligent species. I...

Like most dreams it didn't have a beginning, at least one that I remember. How and why my subconscious chose to build that partic...

 For the obvious selfish and foolish reasons, I had begun to convince myself the South Carolina coast just might avoid any issues this ...

Philosophically speaking, I'm not big on the concept of free will right now. It's a long story and quite frankly my knowled...

Just finished up a week playing Mr. Mom while the wife was away on a business trip. While no metaphorical monkey wrench flew into the...

The smell of the freshly brewed coffee in my cup was already weaving together the synapses in my brain as I plopped into the chai...

Been one of those weekends where I wasn't exactly sick but doing anything requiring movement or any real thinking was just to much tr...

Thinking back on it now, I find it astonishing that my dysfunctional parents somehow found it in themselves to cooperate enough to ...

Not to get weird, because that ship sailed long ago, but as I was surfing the YouTube channels Sunday afternoon one of the guys I watc...

Sunday morning began with me looking out my kitchen window and struggling to convince myself that my backyard didn't need cutti...

 (Author's note: This story is true, although I had to go creative-nonfiction to stretch it out and alter it enough so I wouldn't...