It's no secret that my principle and primary purpose for having a livejournal rests entirely on the shoulders of my own entertainment and the entertainment of others. While from time to time I drop extremely heavy content on here I am not someone who maintains a livejournal because he needs to write...

Where else but the Irish Blog Awards? I’ve stuck up an overdue thank you post on the Awards blog to say thanks. I’m totally biased here but seriously, what a fun event. Got some great emails from people saying it was in a different league or a different world to most awards shows. I gues...

I'm slightly concerned that brunettes with very dark hair wearing very dark clothes are replacing my all encompassing love for redheads. It's very strange, but they catch my eye more than the auburn-be-locked sort these days. That couldn't happen forever, could it? At least I'll still make passes at...

Tom and David’s big night out from Tom and David on Vimeo. A while back, those cats at Gawker busted out a mini-clip from Tom Cruise’s 40th birthday party hosted by his best little buddy and dictator at the Church of Scientology, David Miscavige. Lucky for you, we got the full clip. I kn...

In the lexicon of the English language, failure may no longer be an option. Instead, we English-speakers bring you fail. Not as to fail, but simply fail. (If you aren’t tracking with this, Slate has a fine article explaining this latest twist in the mother tongue.) Of course, being the the lov...

"...we reject as false the choice between safety and our ideals..." - President Barack Obama Now THAT'S something I can get behind.I didn't go through hell and I don't put on this uniform every god-damn morning for anything less than the ability to see the ideals of good and freedom and decency and ...

Today a nice big package arrived for me from two people I've never met, yet consider extremely close friends - oh thank you, internet, for that. I haven't opened it all, because I'm enjoying all the neat little surprises...but I got real scotch, real scotch glasses and a ton of other neat things. To...

Tagged by cordilleran2 1. Post about something that made you happy today even if it's just a small thing.2. Do this everyday for a week without fail.3. Tag 8 of your friends to do the same. My Piece of Happy for today is: Strongbow cider, my vice of choice! Tagged: evilvillan_1 , chikken_butt , kill...

I am currently trying to drive my roommate to kill me by playing "I Wanna be in the Cavalry" by Corb Lund over and over again as loud as my stereo will allow. I am currently on play 20 and his eyes are beginning to glaze over. I'm doing this because I want to get a smile out of pyroclasticgrub ... t...

I just found 5 years worth of notes, maps, drawings, musings, snippets, writings, and crap from the novel I've been working on. All this stuff I thought was lost, but I've got it back now.Whoa......