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  • WordPress prompt. Also, another video on another auspicious day.

    WordPress prompt. Also, another video on another auspicious day.

    I know my instinct was to turn that gourd above into a hand-carved object of terror. See? My instincts were correct! It could not have been any other way! I haven’t done a writing prompt in ages, but figured that today might be a good day to tackle one; I’m ultra-busy with other tasks, but…

  • Ninety days until I’m 50, which is the new 40, but 40 was actually awful for me, so I’m okay with 50.

    Ninety days until I’m 50, which is the new 40, but 40 was actually awful for me, so I’m okay with 50.

    Now see here: my DNA wants me to look like a perogie-gnawing Russian peasant, and I have indeed looked that way many times, but I will continue to Winston Churchill my way against that genetic insistence. So yes, here’s another rare selfie that’ll be a collector’s item by 2125!  Deal with it!  And for the record,…

  • Self care? DON’T care!

    Self care? DON’T care!

    I’m being good to myself. One thing I’ve been told for as long as I can remember is that I’m really, really hard on myself. And it’s easy to be hard.  But I actually just think I’m strong enough and ambitious enough to navigate life, which is a battlefield.  Didn’t Pat Benatar say that?  Or…

  • The Grand Misconceptions of Alcoholics Anonymous

    The Grand Misconceptions of Alcoholics Anonymous

    Happy New Year!   (Obligatory Justin Trudeau grumblings ahead…I must get them out of the way) 2025 sure has gotten out of the gate with an attention-seeking ruckus.  Apart from horrible plane crashes and terrifying natural disasters, the nelly little prisspot we call a Prime Minister has finally decided to step down as leader of Canada’s…

  • Jon Favreau Is A Cinematic Genius

    Jon Favreau Is A Cinematic Genius

    No, really.  Hear me out.  Jon, if you’re reading this–and I assume everyone in Hollywood receives Google alerts for anything containing their name–you outdid yourself with this flick.  Consider this my ode to “Chef.” So, for the rest of us armpit-scratching plebeians: Never heard of this movie?  That’s a shame.  I think it’s on Netflix…

  • nobody loves me like i do

    nobody loves me like i do

    Hello, fellow proles!   Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome.  Now let us just sprint earnestly towards straight-up business: here’s where I do the obligatory, can’t-help-muhself introduction where I talk about how I used to write blogs, how I’ve started a brand–new blog, what this blog’s purpose is, and of most self-aggrandizing importance, who I am and why I…