Slightly Mighty IPA

Slightly Mighty IPA

I am on a low-carb diet trying to knock off 10 lbs. This used to mean no beer, but I remembered Michelob Ultra and I would sadly drink it when with friends, wishing I could enjoy the full flavor of regular craft beers. Well I’ve just discovered that many other...

Man, the human

Things that demonstrate that man is still human: using utensils to eat real food. Or using tools of any sorthandwriting and arithmetic, and using them to write a letter to your mother or a friend, or calculate the perimeter of your backyardlocomotion by any organic...

New Beginning

Today marks the first day of my new career as a writer, that is, not as a hobby or something to piddle around with on evenings and weekends. Today, liberated from a traditional American employment model, I now set out to discover what it means to be a professional...

One Observation about Star Wars: The Force Awakens

(This post was written long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, probably in 2016 but not published until 2018) Aside from the title, which was way more auspicious than the film delivered, I was sad for Oscar Isaac, an actor that I like, that he was cast in such a...

On dying

Unacceptable ways of dying: after a long, desperate, nauseated, hairless battle with terminal cancer by withdrawal of sustenance after being kept alive artificially by some silly accident when I am so old and senile I can’t take care of myself, like falling and...

Closer

(written 6/2017) There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen enough pornography that they can watch Closer without getting squeamish, and those who have not and cannot. I am not joking. There are seriously, literally these two categories. Those...