Monthly Archives: May 2011

Aggregate Saturday I am actually so tired I can not think so well. Late, long NASCAR night and more of the same today. – Plus we are probably going to buy a car today. Rah. – My history with buying … Continue reading →

It’s not very often that I feel the need to stick up for my gender. Lord knows that most of the ridicule that we guys receive is richly deserved. But when a national ad campaign shows men as pigs I … Continue reading →

I have been a professional columnist for quite a while now. Writing for the WEEKENDER once a week. I say professional in the sense that I get paid. I certainly don’t think of my self as particularly accomplished or anything. … Continue reading →

In 17 days I will do something I have never done before. I wish I could say I will do it with a joyful heart. I wish I could I could say I will do it with the spirit of … Continue reading →

Radio DaZe: Selections from the forthcoming book will be published here every Thursday. There are right ways and wrong ways to fire people in this business. I learned not to do it over the phone. I guess the most important … Continue reading →

It must have been like a dream come true to the sweat-palmed short-eyed excuses for men who chatted her up. A conversation that gets steamy real fast in an internet chat room is nothing out of the ordinary I guess. … Continue reading →

I have mentioned here that we are car shopping. The long-suffering wife’s 2001 Pontiac Grand Am with 108,000 miles on it and no encumbrances blew up in an an expensive, not worth it to repair way. Stopped dead in her … Continue reading →

The critters are back at the Rising Ranch. Actually I am sure they have been here all along but now they are showing themselves. Most of them are reasonably welcome to share our little highly taxed patch of ground. The … Continue reading →

Tuesday Morning Review: The Triplets of Belleville (2003) Les triplettes de Belleville (original title) PG-13 80 min This is a review of The Triplets of Belleville but we also have to look at how I got to see it which … Continue reading →

I am a card carrying Star trek Geek. I have seen all Ten of the movies several times and I have watched every episode of every spin-off series. The spin-off series. and there were five in all, including the original … Continue reading →