This essay was originally written in 2001, and can be found on my personal website. Feel free to poke around the stories, essays, and other weirdness collected therein. […]
Grumpy Comedians
I remember hearing George Carlin on a cassette tape, at a friend’s house. We were teenagers, and only vaguely delinquent. We laughed as we smoked and listened; a […]
Taking Veggie Tales waaaaay too seriously.
The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything is a cute Veggie Tales movie, with plenty of intentional funny moments (and quite a few unintentional ones if you’re feeling sarcastic). […]
The New Pharisees
Let me make this clear: My problems with Christianity (and in particular, the Roman Catholic Church, which I nominally belong to) are problems not so much with the […]
Gifts – A Flash Fiction
(As a brief aside, I’ve been writing a flash fiction or essay each year for our holiday cards. If you didn’t get one, it’s either because you moved […]
Of Families and Kites
This time of year – even moreso than Thanksgiving – has people talking about and thinking about "family". In my experience (both personally and talking to others), family […]