Retirement Sale

My wife and I were walking the main drag of one of the nearby towns last week. Nice day, sun out, no agenda but to get some fresh air pumped into our lungs and clear our heads. The utter lack of enticing things to do post summer and beach weather while trying to keep distance […]

“You’re a Fucking Dumbass”

There….I’ve said it. And I don’t feel bad about saying it because you just are and are probably too fucking stupid to realize you are which reinforces why you need to be told. It’s been more than a few years now and your blind subservience and disregard of reality has buoyed the increasing intensity and […]

Lost in Dreams

This is not some warm and fuzzy recollection of wonderful or surreal activities I participated in while spending my night hours fitfully asleep, but rather about an unsettling pattern of certain things and places not being where they should be, mixed in with the inability to remember where I supposedly left yet other things, both […]

Doctor Pizza

We had some old friends over the other night for nearly appropriately socially-distanced cocktails to be followed by dinner. I say “nearly” because the minimal 6 foot recommended spacing was not being adhered to at all times and the snacks were initially semi-communal and subsequently possibly a bit radioactive once one of my friends stuck […]

Schadenfreude for Beginners

Deriving pleasure from another’s misfortune isn’t necessarily a great look, but sometimes it reaches a point where appearances just don’t fucking matter. Life ain’t a zero-sum game so the fact there might not be anything in that misfortune which directly benefits the person deriving that pleasure except seeing the effect of that misfortune is perfectly […]