Dear Reader, To begin with, can we stop using the word Dear. Dear means beloved, precious, priceless, or rare. I don’t have that kind of relationship with my phone company, nor do I want one. We can still be friends,…
Yearly Archives: 2013
Greetings and Salutations (and Other Insincere Forms of Expression)
Tagged with: annoyed, comedy, complaining, culture, Happy New Year, humor, lose weight now, miscellaneous, random nonsense, silliness, snarkiness, truth, whining
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting, Word Nerd
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting, Word Nerd
Bathroom Humour (or Sanitized For Your Protection)
I’ve found a new low in etiquette, and it’s people who put others on speakerphone in public washrooms. Yes, that has happened to me on more than one occasion. Thank you, kind sir, for putting me in the embarrassing position…
Tagged with: annoyed, Bathroom, comedy, complaining, humor, miscellaneous, Public toilet, random nonsense, silliness, Sink, Skynet, Toilet, whining
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting
Expressing Yourself in the Age of Consumerism
With a computer in nearly every home in the industrialized world, instant access to a worldwide repository of visual images, and freely available software to manipulate those pictures, it was only a matter of time before people started making dumb…
Tagged with: Felicia Day, Folk art, Guild, humor, miscellaneous, opinion, photoshop, random nonsense, silliness, Wil Wheaton
Posted in Blog, Things I know less about than I think
Posted in Blog, Things I know less about than I think
Divide and Conquer: A NaNoWriMo Alternative
Originally posted on Foil & Phaser:
I know a lot of people would like to take part in NaNoWriMo but find the concept of writing an entire novel to be too daunting. What I would like to propose is a…
Tagged with: Fantasy, NaNoWriMo, random nonsense, science fiction, short story, writing
Posted in Blog, Word Nerd
Posted in Blog, Word Nerd
Putin vs. Poutine (or The Gentrification of Fast Food and the Third World War)
So, you can tell a lot about a person by the kind of cheese they eat. If you look in the average person’s fridge, you’re going to find some mozzarella and cheddar, maybe some swiss or parmesan. Perhaps you live…
Tagged with: comedy, fast food, geek, humor, lose weight now, miscellaneous, nerd, random nonsense, silliness, technology
Posted in Blog, Things I know less about than I think
Posted in Blog, Things I know less about than I think
We Appreciate Your Feedback (or No Experience Needed)
So, I haven’t had a good rant in a while, so here goes. I recently took to the web in search of a new job, and I came across some corporate pages that made me want to chuck my mouse…
Tagged with: annoyed, complaining, Human resources, humor, miscellaneous, Pop-up ad, random nonsense, Résumé, silliness, snarkiness, technology, Website, whining
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting
Posted in Blog, Whine Tasting
Putting the Argument to Rest
Originally posted on Foil & Phaser:
Since I helped create this site in part as a home for leftover stories from The Sword Laser Anthology submissions, it would be a little hypocritical if I didn’t put one of my own…
Tagged with: Fantasy, horror, humor, random nonsense, science fiction, short story
Posted in Blog, Fiction
Posted in Blog, Fiction
Still Not Dead Yet (or If Anyone Were Reading This Blog, They Must Have Given Up Waiting By Now)
So, hey… it’s been a while. I thought I should make up for my long absence with something amazingly funny or insightful or inspirational. And then I wrote this instead. No, seriously I’ve been spending all my blogging time setting…
Tagged with: Fantasy, Online Writing, random nonsense, science fiction, short story
Posted in Blog, Word Nerd
Posted in Blog, Word Nerd
One Page at a Time: The Cellar Door, Page 3
Originally posted on Foil & Phaser:
This is a collaborative story in which you write the next page of the story. Fill out the form below and I’ll publish the best response each week. Please send in page 4 by…
Posted in Blog, Uncategorized
Verbatim Gibberish 