Culture and (in)Appropriateness

Sometimes my sense of humor can bite me in the @ss.

But at least it doesn't charge me extra...

See?

I make no qualms about having a very crass, mean, juvenile sense of humor. I sometimes tart it up (!) with a well-endowed vocabulary, but it's still just a bad attitude with good grammar.

Then again, it makes me laugh, and that's what I'm after. If others laugh, that's just whipped cream.

I don't think I'm a bad person, but I know I can be abrasive, confrontati...Read more

Saturday Night's All Right For Subtitling

Couldn't resist the Elton John reference.

After all, it's the one song of his that doesn't have an emetic effect on me...

But I thought you might like to know how I spent my evening, since I didn't spend tonight OR last night at an AnD event

Dammit.

I spent my evening watching AV. With a friend. A male friend.

Creepy, huh?

Don't worry, it's for work.

I teach Media, Sex, and Violence, and I always want my students to see something int...Read more

50k

I just noticed... 50,000 visits.I want to thank everyone who visited my page. If this continues, my chronic and voluminous self-deprecation may no longer have as much basis in truth.

But fear not, I am certain that it will continue apace.

As will this ongoing lunacy that from the outside probably looks like you're seeing it through a fun-house mirror.

To be honest, that's how the world and the vast majority of humans appear to me from in here...

Make you a deal: You keep showing up, and I will keep trying to make ...Read more

Yes, Etchy, It's Him. Errr, Her... Errrr...

In my previous post I included this photo of my friend Angie and her daughter Winsome.The photo was taken by Sidney, who is Angie's husband and Winsome's father and my good friend. Winsome is my goddaughter.

In a comment, Etchy asked, rather un-rhetorically, "Holy crap, is that Angie?" I'll assume he is referencing the fact that for most of us, Angie...Read more

Hot Bodies and a Babe

The professor locked himself out tonight in yet another incident showing that education and stupidity are not incapable of residing in the same skull. So his friends had to come let him into his own house.But he got to see his goddaughter, so it was good.I drive lots of women to drink when I touch them.Read more

Watching Porn in Hong Kong

I heard recently, and I don't doubt, that in Hong Kong men like to watch pornographic video backwards.

That way, the climax of the film is the 'chicken' giving the money back.

For Kerryh91

The city of Newcastle is a British historical/cultural site of great significance since David 'Ginger' Walls, lead singer and rhythm guitarist of The Wildhearts is from there. He takes great pride in being a 'Geordie,' as does someone else we know...

Geordie in Wonderland - The Wildhearts

Now that I’ve changed and the rest have all stayed Well, why do I feel so confused? Some of the best of me plans have been laid And some of me best moments used I’ve been out for the count in a Mexican bar-o Stranded in nowhere w...Read more

Telecasters...

"I wanted to call the record . But my label, Music for Lap Dances, thought that it would be objectifying Telecasters. We didn't want to offend Nashville, so we called it Strippers & Methinstead.

" -  Hugh Jass, The Buck FunniesThis week was a 'fun mail' double feature.

No, I didn't gettwin Laotian mail-order brides.

I got the next best thing: guitar parts!

(It appears Grandpa is slowing down, eh?)

First up: A package from Athens Ohio, home of Stewart McDonald Guitar Sh...Read more

Oh All Right...

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!! I hope everyone has a wonderful day and gets to spend it however they choose to or hope to. While this holiday has been less notable for me than Christmas was, I nevertheless can't complain and thus won't.

I offer to all of you the gift of knowing (as if you didn't already) that I am obviously struggling mightily to make this holiday wish light, cheerful and devoid of the crass, miserable vituperation (at which I sadly seem to excel, for an excess of practice if nothing else) I am always spewi...Read more

What's Wrong With This Picture???

I swear I don't look for things to complain about... I just find them.

Now, I am not a fan of Dragonforceexcept on a conceptual level; it's like listening to a regular CD at 2x speed. It makes me giggle to think about how they have stuffed more notes into a song than anyone could otherwise do.

If the 80s were the decade of guitar gymnastics, these guys are a doping scandal with drums.

I admit, I admire Herman Li for being a good guitarist, and for being the first international guitar her...Read more