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"Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose.  But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished...

Many years ago, I made a vow to never discuss politics with anyone ever again.  This may seem extreme, but hear me out.  If I agree with you...

Reuters News Service- Portland, Oregon The search for new posts has officially been called off, and blogs were declared dead yesterday.  S...

I play a lot of chess over at Chess.com, and it's fun to compete against people from all over the world.  The internet has caused many d...

Thank you Bukowski for convincing subsequent generations of writers that all they had to do is drink too much and vomit on a page. Desp...

My whole life I have conducted a decades long informal poll about which holiday was a bigger amateur drunk fest, New Year's Eve or St. P...

Every year I do an Oscar recap, but this year it feels more like a post mortem.  What a stinker.  A three hour cure for insomnia. This is t...

What's with all these singers fucking with the national anthem?!?  Just sing the fucking song!!!  It's perfect as is, and not only d...

When I worked at the theater, holidays were a nightmare. The days that everybody else had off were our busiest days of the year. Thanksgiv...

It seems like I'm always defending my love of football. I understand that it's a violent, brutal sport. I understand that it recei...

Did you ever notice…...that when a person dies who was annoying, obnoxious, pretentious, self-centered, and humorless, we're supposed to...

The world population reached 7 billion people this Halloween weekend.  If that's not scary, I don't know what is.  I found out that ...

I saw a funny photo the other day, so I posted it on my facebook page.  My friend JJ said that it should be turned into a motivational poste...

If every breakdance movie cliche ever created had a huge orgy at the UPN studios and spawned a baby that was a bad actor, and that baby took...

I've been venturing into neighboring Brewer, Maine on my days off.  Bangor and Brewer are sometimes referred to as the "Twin Cities...

Bangor is starting to grow on me. Underneath a veneer of seediness, roils a current of content normalcy.  Usually, it's the other way a...

Guess who just won a caption contest??? Did you guess me?!? Good guess. There were only twenty entries, but 1st place is better than 20th...

Thanks to Dr. Pauly for passing along this wonderful, heartfelt public service announcement.....

Holy crap. When I found out about this show, my head exploded.  When I got done duct taping my cranium back together, I immediately tuned i...

After a couple weeks embedded in the second biggest town in Maine, I have made some keen observations. Bangor is the kind of town where: ...