Year archives: 2004

Superman*

In the midst of your struggles to simply have a normal life death sneaked up from behind you bearing Kryptonite and you breathed your last earth air. It seems wrong that it happened this way – I must have expected a more glorious ending. Sometimes no matter how great our strength or will we must …

One Reason I Don’t Own a Gun

Deep breath in. Deep breath out. Deep breath in. Deep breath out. How much have you personally ever wanted to pull another driver out of his or her vehicle and beat the living shit out of them? I only ask, because that feeling is still lingering with me even though I’m no longer in my …

Curiouser and Curiouser

How sick is it that I sat through half of a concert I wasn’t particularly interested in just because I desperately wanted to read the bassist’s t-shirt? I kept saying, “Stand still for a second,” but the bouncy little thing didn’t hear me because he was in my television.

It’s the Little Things That Get Ya

My daughter is going to be eleven in December, so it’s fast approaching the time when I will be able to look back and laugh at the experiences I had at the hospital on the night she was born. I’m not quite there yet. Give me eleven more years. But, what the hell, I’ll share. …

Allergic to Avril

Far be it for me to criticize anybody’s art but my darling husband has been afflicting me with the radio quite a bit lately, and I feel a strong need to vent a bit. If you disagree with my usage of the word “afflicting”, you obviously haven’t been listening to a station that plays a …

Doctor’s Orders

My crown is a little loose, but the dentist doesn’t want to pull it out just yet and risk breaking it. So, she suggested I eat things like chewing gum and Now and Laters in an attempt to loosen it further. Back off, bud, this Laffy Taffy is prescription. Life is good.