Single-handedly solving nothing
A catch-all for my random silly, funny, and/or thoughtful posts about life and the crazy world around us. I try not to rant or insult. If I make you smile or contemplate, I’ll consider it a success.
You crazy, paranoid Americans and your walls. Always with the walls. Usually you’re yapping semi-coherently about wanting one along the Mexican border, or more accurately finishing that one, but now some of the looniest in your midst, hello Republicans, have openly fantasized about erecting a wall along the Canadian border. A 2015 survey found an … Read more
“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” I was all prepared to use that famous quote as an opening for a new catty blog post I was writing about community volunteers and hockey parents. Shakespeare’s famous quote seemed the perfect launching point for my rant with hockey parents, especially, being regularly associated with fury … Read more
Three weeks past release and audiences continue flooding into movie theatres like flies to a corpse to watch the long anticipated seventh chapter of the Star Wars franchise. I am still not one of them. I prefer picked over bones to fresh flesh, not to mention a cheaper price tag and fewer people, so I’ll … Read more
Ever since Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012 and green-lit a sequel trilogy, not a week has passed where something Star Wars wasn’t blowing up my social media. This year it’s become a daily irritant as the orgasmically anticipated The Force Awakens inches ever closer to its December 18, 2015 release date. Star Wars this and … Read more
Last week while my kids played after school at the school playground, I had my first ever genuine hipster sighting. I’ve heard about and read about these peculiar creatures for a couple years now but had never actually seen one in real life, this despite living in what you’d call a large, modern, and demographically … Read more