Regular Life

It was just Ben and me. A man and his boy. Father and son. The bond that can be neither understood nor broken. Or something like that.
Now, on to complete sentences. Well, mostly.
Ben and I headed out at about 6:00 Friday evening, and finally got to my mom and dad’s at 1:15 a.m. At the [...]

Here’s a history of how swallowing live goldfish began (at Harvard), including a back-and-forth battle between schools and the records set throughout the years. See? The highly educated can be just as stupid as everybody else. Sheesh.
No doubt most of you (that’s two?) have heard that an Assembly of God Church actually included swallowing live [...]

A friend sent me a link to SNL’s Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy, and I had to share this one, considering my previous post.
If aliens from outerspace ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just kidding, that this isn’t really our civilization, but [...]

I’ve been reading a lot of science fiction lately, but stay with me on this.
What if we’re it? What if the creatures of Earth are the only living things in the universe? Authors and scientists long have fantasized that we are not, but we have yet to find any proof otherwise. I think.
Given time, we [...]

If you are a grown person and can help it, do not take an extended ride in the backseat of a Ford Explorer with another adult, a two-year-old, and a dog. By “extended ride,” I mean any time whatsoever. Regardless of who’s driving, your mother, brother, father in-law, best friend, just do not do it.
I’m [...]

Go to a science fiction convention, have your words and deeds spread to every continent.
Now, I’m not new to the Internet. I got my first dialup account and made my first meager Web page in 1995 (the one I have still is pretty meager). Viewership of my online content was few and far between, rarely [...]

There was no way I was buying a magazine.
His name was Antjuan, an African-American young man who told me he was 19 and had lived in a Syntaxis Youth Home. He wore a denim jacket over a long-sleeved pink shirt. His jeans matched his jacket, and the tops of his pink boots were folded down [...]

Adam Baldwin talks to fans in the main auditorium.
First, here is the page that has my pics and videos of the event.
I did it. Although I do not own any clothing or costumes resembling famous sci-fi characters in movies or TV, I went to the Dallas Comic Con this weekend. I went only Sunday, but [...]

In the past month or so, I have had at least 10 dreams featuring the same people. The content of the dreams is nothing unusual, which is very unusual for me. I rarely ever dream of actual people or places in my life, and the subject matter is just shy of “too strange to describe [...]

Playing tonight on American Movie Classics (AMC):
Pet Sematary 2
Oh my. What has this channel come to? Has Turner Classic Movies (TCM) really cornered the market so much that AMC can’t show a decent flick anymore? I remember when AMC had the great Hitchcock festival, in which they showed the restored, letterbox versions of some of [...]