A Life Less Ordinary

Okay, this is quite disturbing. A guy in Des Moins, IA is selling the following on eBay: “Want to reach a large audience in a unique fashion. Advertise on my scalp. I am currently attending Iowa State University and I am willing to put a tattoo advertisement on my head. My head is already shaved,…

What’s the deal with all these companies wanting to approve people with bad credit for loans and such? Oh sure, it sounds like a great deal. “Bad credit? No credit? No problem! We want to approve you for a new car!” How is that a deal? Oh wait! I understand now! You start out with…

It’s amazing how, even now, something so innocuous as Her handwriting can bring the pain flooding back.

“We always hear “the rules” from the female side. Now here are the rules from the MALE perspective. Learn to work the toilet seat. You’re a big girl. If it’s up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don’t hear us bitching about you leaving it down. Sometimes we are…

I wish the shows on Food TV would agree with one another. Good Eats and Food 911 offered vastly differing methods of preparing artichoke, which isn’t a problem. It’s just that Food 911 made it seem like certain steps are required (and ended up with some pretty ugly artichoke), whereas Good Eats proved they weren’t…

You know, Spy TV would be a much more interesting show if they had cameras hidden in girls’ locker rooms and showers.

So there’s this mile-wide asteroid that’s headed for earth and could potentially kill us all. But it’s seventeen years away, so I’m not sweating it.

I was driving home today and I saw a homeless man on the side of the road. There was nothing terribly special about this guy, he looked scrubby, he was standing where homeless people often do, and he had the obligatory cardboard sign that requested food and funds. In fact, it was his sign that…

Wow, what a night. Some guy with a gun took his seven year old son hostage over a domestic dispute which ended up causing the police to close off a ten block area. Two cars and a motorcycle got into a crash which killed at least one person so far. There was an E. coli…

There’s a stuttering clinic at EWU that takes place during the summer. Supposedly it’s the only one of its kind in the United States. One of the things the people who enroll in this clinic have to do is approach a complete stranger and talk to them. Yesterday, one of them approached me. It was…