At some point recently, I mentioned that I wish I had more time for video games. It was a lie. Well, not a lie, but not really true either. I crave the opportunity for distraction, but I'm ambivalent to offer up yet another hour of my precious breathing time to the unflinching gaze of the big glass ...

EXTRAVAGANCE, LUXURY–those are the words that I always associate with being rich and famous..It was really funny when my “ex-housemates” were talking about how luxurious we could get. and i still laugh hard when my answers cross my mind again. I told them that If were so rich and h...

Rahm Emanuel cannot leave his office without generating a colorful anecdote involving profanity. Today's installment: Rahm went to a movie! He went to see The Wrestler, in DC, at a regular person theater (Obama didn't invite him to the White House screening? We bet Rahm talks over movies all the dam...

Yes, it’s true. I once had a gardener, his name, not important here. It was Frank. He was a good gardener, always kept the posies looking excellent. He found this thing out in the garden last summer. Huddled amidst the rose bushes and half covered with mulch was this animal. It was dead, most ...

No matter where one turns these days, it seems nearly impossible to escape the news of the latest company or industry to unravel.  So to challenge the status quo of doom and gloom,  and to inject a layer of much needed levity, our new series presents satirical articles of different indus...

Aieeeeee! The DVD with "Dead End" (Angel S2) died mid-episode! I may need to replace the entire set. :-( I still haven't taken Duo to an Apple Store to see if there is any easy fix for the optical drive. Although given that it's quit reading both DVDs and CDs, I'm not optimistic. (On the bright side...

Joe, riffling through grocery bag: "Yoon, you got Twinkies?"Me, defensively: "They were there! I wanted some! I haven't had Twinkies in years! Don't hurt me!"Joe: "I don't need to. They will." Me: "Joe, I can't decide what fic to read" (on a fic rec page, for a particular pairing).Joe: "What do you ...

Remember when you were a kid and you used to think that your body was powered by lots of little people inside you, pulling levers to activate your brain or make you move your leg? OK, so maybe that was just me and my strange imagination. But I sometimes still indulge this thought, if only to explain...

Exactly how long the prostitute, unbeknownst to my father, stayed at our house and slept in my bed is hard to gauge. Nowadays time lacks the expansive quality it had when I was eleven years old. But more than three weeks and less than five months elapsed between the day she moved in and the terrible...

A true story of hope and change. Around 4pm on Inauguration Day, I was walking my elderly Corgi about a block from my house in central Austin when I heard a woman’s voice call out, “WHO WANTS TO PARTY?” A middle-aged blonde woman in a robe stepped out onto the front porch of a hous...