I Was a Bitcoin for the FBI!

When I first heard about Bitcoin, I had to laugh… then, I had to stop because I was bothering the other parishioners; to be fair, decentralized crypto-currencies always make me laugh. I remember when I heard about Zcash, I laughed so hard, I broke a blood vessel in my inner ear. It was worth it, […]

Lessons Learned from the Movie Desperado

Never run drugs for men who have house payments. The bartender sometimes never gets killed. If you ask a bar full of armed men about a man who calls himself “Bucho”, prepare for an emotional response. Sometimes a man is most dangerous when his ankle is shattered and he is lying in the dirt. Pretty […]

Why Popeye is Better Than Spiderman

Popeye got his strength from touching the head of a wiffle hen… and, later from eating spinach, the finest of the leafy vegetables; Peter Parker got his strength from a lousy bug-bite. Popeye goes by his birth name, “Popeye”. Peter Parker invented the persona of Spiderman to keep from complicating his personal life. How’d that […]

Valentines Advice (Part One): For Men

An intelligent, well-made and romantic movie is often just the thing no matter how excruciatingly awful the ordeal of sitting through it is… Why buy your beloved candy when you can make it? Nothing says, “I love you” better than a paper plate covered with oozing, crystallized chocolate abortions. And, don’t say that flowers are […]

Random Thoughts, Part the Third

Turns out, The Vagina Monologues is NOT a ventriloquist act. ֎֎֎ They called it a “Wake” but by the end, I could barely keep my eyes open. ֎֎֎ You always sound smarter if you use the words “Crimean” or “Symbiotic”. ֎֎֎ If you named your son “Jeff”, you weren’t really trying very hard. ֎֎֎ There […]