I don’t like dating. It’s a rotten institution, and one that doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. I like to become friends with women first and then hypnotize or otherwise con them into getting involved with me. Dating someone I don’t actually know seems nightmarish – the petty small talk on the initial … Continue reading
I could list all the things that’s kept me from blogging: the election, GTA 4, work intrigue, home stuff, but the fact is that I’ve been lazy. I said I was going to do a series on Spielberg films, and I’ve screwed the pooch on that too, but I promise to get on the ball … Continue reading
Those Crazy Conservative Activists Again Yesterday’s California Supreme Court ruling, relying on the California state constitution to find unconstitutional the exclusion of gays from the California institution of marriage, is already being (predictably) misunderstood and mischaracterized. For an excellent summary of the opinion and a debunking of the fallacious attacks against it, check out Glenn … Continue reading
Next weekend I depart LA for my biennial trip to my hometown of Louisville to visit family. Actually, it’s Jeffersonville, a tiny hamlet in Southern Indiana. What sucks is that there are no direct flights to Derbytown from LA, so one can either fly to Chicago and then to Louisville, or fly to Indy and … Continue reading
Family Dead Pool… Party. I’ve been scarce around these parts lately due to a West Coast trip and the loss of my Uncle, Walter Scafidi, who passed away after a really long and rollercoaster-esque ride with cancer. As the only close family in Atlanta, we spent a lot of time with my uncle, oftentimes watching … Continue reading
Confused, Spineless Democrats I read an op-ed in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal called “Obama and the Values Question Mark” by a guy named Douglas E. Schoen. It’s an advice piece, and Schoen advises Obama to do nothing but play defense. Attacked for not always wearing a lapel pin? Wear a lapel pin. Attacked about Reverend … Continue reading
Hamas Manipulates Republicans; Republicans Manipulate You On Friday, I called John McCain the Manchurian Candidate because he and other Republicans are trying to tie Obama to Hamas even though Hamas and other Isamacist groups in fact support McCain. On cue, in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, Gabriel Schonenfeld, senior editor of Commentary, wrote an op-ed for … Continue reading
Freakish Proximity to the Perverse. [The following is sexual in nature and contains some minor raunch] People all have their own nuttiness for how they engage in the act of sex and the stuff that precedes and follows it, whether it be reciting dialogue from Midnight Madness to rubbing their knuckles along their partner’s sternum … Continue reading
McCain the Manchurian Candidate John McCain was at it again today, suggesting that Americans shouldn’t vote for Obama because a Hamas spokesman spoke well of McCain’s opponent. As a McCain fundraising email put it recently: Barack Obama’s foreign policy plans have even won him praise from Hamas leaders. Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to the … Continue reading
If you’re at all like me, roughly 98% of all conversations you’ve engaged in over the last week have inevitably led to GTA IV. It’s not something that’s intentional, it just pops up… whether to bother a friend who still doesn’t have it, talk about a mission with someone who does… or when you’re at … Continue reading