One of the problematic things about blogging is the weird balancing act between how seriously you take yourself, how seriously your readers take you, how seriously you take your readers taking you seriously, and so on. My last post is a good example. I knocked that stupid thing out in about 10 minutes, […]

Technical advice please:
1. What is the best video editing software I can get for free or for under $100? I want to be able to add music, basic effects, and most of all, slo-mo. I have the lame version of PowerDirector that came on my laptop but it won’t do slo-mo and […]

No, not spring, my birthday! (On Monday.) The only time of the whole year I don’t feel like an ass for cajoling people into helping me be a capitalist pig, and it is incredibly liberating. Besides, it’s totally voluntary on your part so I don’t know why I should feel like an […]

Friend and regular commenter Carbo got cocky a few weeks ago and dared me to make a new header/banner featuring myself in the retard helmet and the tagline “artistry with a blunt instrument.” He sweetened the deal by betting me a primo farewell dinner for Rupert, and who am I to deny Rupert fine […]

By “free”, I mean help. She’s one of my favorite bloggers (Five Feet of Fury), is Canadian, and is being sued by one of the biggest assholes in Canada for “defamation”. It’s kind of a complicated story and I had to spend most of my free time today following link after link on […]

In my ongoing effort to get in touch with the capitalist pig inside me, I have made some stuff that you need to buy. It’s a quality of life issue, the way I see it. Are you really getting everything you can out of your time on Earth if you don’t have a […]

I mentioned last night how awed I am by how civil and decent my commenters are, even in debate. And it reminds me of something I’ve wanted to blog about for a long time: my observations about how full of shit liberals are when they say conservatives, especially the religious ones, are generally intolerant […]

You’d think by now I’d learn to stop being afraid, but every single time I post about a subject like my last post (such as abortion and religion, your classic “untouchables”), I wait for the Flame Hammer to fall.
I follow several other blogs that get a lot of comments like mine does, and […]

Okay, I know it’s borderline totally narcissistic to actually put a post on your own blog about something awesome written about you on another blog, but…wait for it…tough shit. I’m doing it.
Not for myself, for you. Because you need me to take over functional oversight of Earth one day, and in order […]

I have finally found some genuine potential money-makers for this blog that don’t involve you simply giving me cash. (Which by the way, thanks to those of you who have. You paid for the battery, charger, and memory card I needed for my new/old camera.)
One is BlogAds, which I at long […]

Sometimes I worry that if I respond to specific comments in a thread, it won’t get seen before I put a new post up, so this time I’m just gonna make the new post the response, to ensure it gets the widest possible readership because this is extremely important material right here and I’m sure […]

A couple of wacky Brits saved up all the dog fur in their carpets and brushes and made sweaters out of them. Which, yeah I can see it. Sunny’s fur is like satin when I give her fish oil, and it would make a fine sweater. But I’m grossed out at the […]

Rupert and I are flying to Illinois on Sunday morning to visit his parents for a few days, so I can meet them for the first time before he goes to Baghdad for a year. Meeting the folks is an extremely relaxing and stress-free thing to do, right? I have to actually behave […]

I was on a roll all week churning out the posts and now it’s Friday afternoon when everybody wants something amusing and I ain’t got shit. Don’t judge me; I’m lazy. Actually I’ve been looking all over the internet for something interesting to post about but it’s all Spitzer, all the time, […]

My Technorati tracker led me to this post by Amused Cynic about whether or not women are funny, the last line of which he’s going to have to change now because I deign to comment.
His post is about some Christopher Hitchens essay that I tried to read but didn’t finish because I was […]