He Was a Great Guy Before He Tronned

I’m starting a new usage for the word Tron. Help me add it to everyday slang. Tron: v. – To disappear into your computer and exist only in a digital world. Tronning: v. – The process of disappearing into your computer world. Tronned, or Tron’d: n. – Congrats, you only exist to other people in [...]

Idea for a New Bar, Pub, Nightclub, Whatever

Somebody please open this bar. I will come to it, or you can even hire me to open it (more on that later). Basically it’s a bar with a social networking spin. No, it’s not a bunch of people drinking and sitting at computers. It’s a way to not only create a fresh and fun [...]

The Internet Devolves in Four Posts

I don’t know if that’s the number for sure. It’s just a guess. But it seems that by about the 4th comment on any Internet article where the thread goes to bad places. Sometimes funny bad places, but often awkward bad places. “Trolling” is the term I believe. But that four post estimation doesn’t count [...]

Nostradamus Was a Movie Buff

What if Nostradamus could watch movies 500 years in the future through his little bowl of water? Would he know what a movie is? Would he think that was the future? I mean, how come he only spoke of New York and never of Los Angeles? Or San Francisco? They have earthquakes and fires which [...]

Gay is the New Black

Why does it seem like every reality show these days has a gay man in it? Most often it’s one, but sometimes two, and rarely three. Yet hardly ever gay women; although if there are gay women, then it’s almost always two. In the sitcom heydays of the 90′s, there was often the token black [...]

The Final Piece of the 80′s Redux

I am now old enough to have seen the 80′s twice. No, not the 1880′s and the 1980′s, which would make me about 130 years old and smell like cabbage, old socks, and milk farts. I mean the 1980′s and the current sequel to them that is being perpetuated by the tweens’ fashion choices, and [...]