Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

“Who I am.”
There is a fan belt breaking through its skin, a moth cutting through its chrysalis, and a fetus developing eyelashes in a womb. Wednesday. There are worms suckling sidewalks and men tripping switches in basements. We are standing here — in the middle of the day — thinking of who we are while […]

Jake liked his women how he liked his kiwi fruit; firm yet yielding, sweet yet tart, and covered with short fuzzy brown hair.

“We had sex in a bathtub.”
She is biting off her hangnail, staring at her feet, giggling nervously and sniffling.
“Oh?”
She seems awkward, asexual, too bored for sex in a bathtub. Her hip-bones would touch either side of the porcelain. He would lay like a straight sardine. He: skinny and freckled with quick fingers and knobby knees. […]

JCPToday: Discount Engine for JCP

JCPenney just released a new application called “JCPToday.”
Interesting concept, I suppose. Is anyone using this?
According to JCP, JCPToday provides up-to-the-minute information on shopping news and special offers direct from the source.
I could see how this could be useful to identify sales, etc. I wish they would provide this stuff in an RSS feed […]

Boxing is a lot like ballet, except that they don’t dance, there isn’t any music, and they hit each other.

I recently had the pleasure of meeting William Friedkin at a pre-screening of his new film Bug. He’s quite the character to say the least, it was interesting to note he carried himself with the confidence of a director with 31 films behind him.
Friedkin is the mind behind The Exorcist. Now, I’m too […]

Drive carefully. 90% of the people in the world are caused by accidents.

Over the last.. eh, 5 or 6 years I’ve periodically read and followed the blog ktheory. This is a strange activity of mine, and it’s worth noting:
I don’t know Aaron Suggs. I’ve never met him, nor had any relation to him and yet I’ve followed his life — at least via his […]

Money is truthful. When a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.

I’ve been trailed along in the past with promises of favorable compensation that never seemed to materialize..
Lessons learned:
a) Get it in writing.
b) Don’t let people bait you. Don’t let your own ambition or greed hamstring you.
With these lessons in mind, we’ll see what happens in the future, eh? Should be an interesting week.

A sucking chest wound is just nature’s way of telling you to slow down.

Been a while.. ..couple updates:
a) Bought a new bike, w00t! Decided it was time to buy another street bike — my last one was stolen — ended up with a 2007 Black/Silver Yamaha R6. Oh-so-sexah, yay!
b) Not a week after purchasing aforementioned bike — broke my collarbone so that I’m unable […]

Goodbye Ireland. Hello England.

It’s been fun. Moving from Dublin, Ireland to London, England on Saturday.
I’ve:
..had blood pudding, white and black, without any instance of projectile vomit. It’s actually not too bad..
..discovered that American-style breakfast in Ireland is scarce to non-existant. Bacon is called rashers, and it’s just not the same, but I’ve finally come to appreciate it none […]

Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earthbound misfit, I.

Sappy, true or otherwise, I dig this:
Five lessons to make you think about the way we treat people.
1 - First Important Lesson - Cleaning Lady.
During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions until I read the last one:
“What is […]

Monday is an awful way to spend one-seventh of your life.

Blehhhhhhhhhhh.. …hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…
Yesterday was one of the best days of my life. (pictures forthcoming)
Today could best be described as: the unfortunate side effect of experiencing one of the best days of my life directly prior to a work day — a Monday, no less.
Or, in summation: “Blehhhhhhhhhhhhh.”