Britain ground to a halt this morning as the transport systems lack of operational competence and depth was once again cruelly exposed. Speaking at a press conference in Downing Street, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: "We are doing everything in our power to ensure services, road, rail and airport...

I wrote the original draft of this essay in a podunk motel in Nowheresville, Oklahoma—literally, I had no idea where it was, apart from it being two hours outside Oklahoma City. There were none of the amenities that we take for granted—no Wi-Fi, intermittent power, no working phone, no cell serv...

Fall Out Boy's attempt to set a world record by performing on all seven continents has failed. The band spent the last few days in Chile, waiting for air conditions over Antarctica to improve and debating renting a boat for a brief acoustic set in the Antarctic Circle. (Oh, how I wish they had dared...

Still feeling my Chicago/Mississippi roots right about now. It's been raining like a busted pipe all weak... before that it was raging forest fires and home fires... All that's missing now is the ground opening up and little gargoyles and bats from the lower depths of hell flying up screaming "...

Those were the words uttered by Carpool Buddy after a near miss with the snowplow on Centre St. (near Faulkner Hospital) as he took his turn cleaning the ice off my windshield wipers. It took us 3 1/2 hours to make what is normally a 45 minute drive from work to JP. Someone abandoned a perfectly nic...

Note:  It was kinda hard to make out everything he was saying, so some of it I ad-libbed.   "Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but inside it's warm and delightful, and Kevin's got nowhere to go, Let it--wait, what am I saying? Never mind."   hehehe  :p   TheFallenAngel...