Conversations with my Dad: The Hollow Earth

I was spending time with my Dad on Saturday (to make up for not seeing him on Father’s Day) and we spent most of the afternoon talking about our favourite things: Conspiracy Theories.  This week’s item: The Hollow Earth. Not many people believe in the possibility of the Earth being hollow but after listening to [...]

It was more like a restoration in the art of filmmaking…

All right, we’ve all heard that Kodak is discontinuing Kodachrome film. Honestly, the first thing that came to mind was Kodachrome by Paul Simon. It wasn’t my way of doing a sort of sad face because a film medium I don’t think I’ve ever used is going away, but because that song has always stuck [...]

And now a scene from “Hipster Theatre – Alpharetta Edition”

*Curtain* Girl: “Hey, boyfriend! Let me try on your fedora! Aren’t I cute?” Boy: “Wow girlfriend! You look rad! Here, try my nerd glasses too!” Girl: “OMG! We’re, like, the cutest couple EVAR!” Boy: “I know! We’re FUN! Now let’s go to Barnes&Noble and loiter!” Girl: “The kids still do that, right? If not, we’re [...]

Thank You.

I made an announcement to the Universe yesterday concerning my current situation with my former arch nemesis. On the advice of my really good friends W & B, Double D and my Mom, I finally figured out what to do. It has been 11 years since we had stopped speaking and what she did was [...]

Hooking up with NPR

As I do every weekday morning on my commute, I listen to NPR. This morning I was lucky enough to catch the story I heard about hooking up. According to the teenager I stay with sometimes while her mom is out of town, hooking up means making out but according to NPR, hooking up means [...]

The past never really goes away…

My family moved to Georgia around 1990.  I was in the 4th grade and I didn’t know anybody.  Then I met this girl in my class that nobody else liked.  I just wanted to be nice and it turned out she was nice too.  (It wasn’t exactly Grover Goes to School or anything but it [...]