I like turkey bacon, she says. And turns to tell Facebook. The whole world tunes in. There is the requisite group sigh. So *that’s* what it’s all about.
Though you wouldn’t know it by looking at me, I know some things. Admittedly, some of these things I only know because I messed up real bad and now I’m learning the inevitable lesson that hindsight brings. Oy, to the regret! Don’t believe me? Check this out: Some Stuff I Know So-called “Life Coaches” should [...]
I’ve got a bit of a girl crush on Zooey Deschanel. She’s cute as a bug’s ear and has an amazing singing voice. She’s teamed up with the lovely M. Ward to form a group called She & Him and I just bought Volumes 1 and 2 because they’re awesome and they rock my face [...]
Christopher Hitchens, for those who don’t know, is an author and a journalist of ill repute. He’s said and done some rather scandalous things in his career. He’s a bit controversial. Here is the guy who supports the Iraq war, but was water boarded for Vanity Fair and declared it –without a doubt — torture. [...]
I feel like a total maroon. I didn’t even know about this. 1892 “I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands: one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.” 1892 to 1923 “I pledge allegiance to my flag and to the republic for which it stands: one nation indivisible [...]
This article over on The Bookseller website is really interesting to me and I certainly hope it’s not a harbinger of things to come. Some literary bigwigs are frothing at the mouth about it though, so perhaps it will come to nothing in the end. Let me sum up: Basically, The Wylie Agency has decided [...]
Know what I totally hate? And it’s not jealousy talking either. I promise. Cause if I was given the opportunity I might end up doing the same exact thing. Maybe. Still, it’s depressing and I don’t like it. I hate it when there’s a blog I really like to read and I go there on [...]
A boy who went to school with my boys died this weekend. This is new for us. I’ve been blessed in that the most significant death the boys have had to deal with thus far was our beloved Roofie Doo. That was hard enough. Jacob found out about it first, but he didn’t really know [...]

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters; that's our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time's horrible burden; one which breaks your shoulders and bows you down, you must get drunk without cease.
But with what? With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.
And if, at some time, on steps of a palace, in the green grass of a ditch, in the bleak solitude of your room, you are waking and the drunkenness has already abated, ask the wind, the wave, the stars, the clock, all that which flees, all that which groans, all that which rolls, all that which sings, all that which speaks, ask them, what time it is; and the wind, the wave, the stars, the birds, and the clock, they will all reply:
"It is time to get drunk!
So that you may not be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk, get drunk, and never pause for rest! With wine, poetry, or virtue, as you choose!"
Charles Baudelaire























