In Snark Contrast

  • Fingers Crossed

    So this wasn't cool: The other day--Tuesday morning, to be exact--I got caught red-handed by a Starbucks barista, doing... well, I, ah... I guess y...
  • A Day in the Life

    She Came In Through the Bathroom Window, Maggie Mae and Another Girl, pretending it was commonplace, trying to Act Naturally. "Help!", I thought to...
  • The Butterfly Effect and the Infinite Monkey Theorem: Part Two

    A notion is an ethereal thing. It doesn't make the scene, compliments of us sitting pensively, attempting to will it into existence. There is no fo...
  • The Butterfly Effect and the Infinite Monkey Theorem: Part One

    For the record, I've got a monkey in the next room sitting in front of a typewriter. Got some 'splainin' to do, I know... It all started last eveni...
  • Ironic Viking Expeditions

    Gotta say, I was really into explorers when I was a kid. No,not Dora, that obnoxious kids' cartoon. And not Jacques Cousteau, the famous French oce...
  • Hang Time

    "In a word she was 'magic' to be around. Made me feel like we were invincible, like the rest of the world didn't exist."... "These guys have been b...
  • Eats

    "Time to get your grub on!"... "Ain't no better vittles than at a southern barbecue... "What say we go to that French place and check out the cuisi...
  • Stop Making "Sense Of" It All

    The vast majority of us have witnessed or participated in matchmaking dialogue. Typically the person attempting the setup espouses the attributes o...
  • Pull-ese

    Some people have it from the get-go. Born into it, really. The product of being in the right place at the right time, the offspring of parents who ...
  • Timing Issues

    So this could've happened: Almost nineteen years ago two good friends have plans to hook up in Chicago where one of them lives. Luckily, the person...
  • Where'd You Get That Idea?

    It's not that it happens every day in the shower although I shower virtually every day. But yeah, it happens pretty frequently, with some occasions...
  • Hollywood's Walk of Shame

    Say you live smack-dab in the middle of the country. Somewhere in Kansas. Like Mitchell County. Cawker City to be exact. And one day you get a call...