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Close Your Eyes For a Second…and Sleep Forever: A Thing About a Movie Called The Slumber Party Massacre

There's no sense in keepin this thing around if I'm not gonna write, right? So here I am, and maybe there you are, too. Let's find out where this goes together, why don't we? I'm currently…

When Tired Is the Entire Sum, That Shit Just Makes You Tiresome

Hello! In case you're new here, there's this band called Drug Church that I've been obsessed with for somewhere in the neighborhood of two years now. I've written about them quite a bit before, and I suspect I'll continue to do so,…

I Wanna Disconnect Myself: A Thing About the First Time I Met Henry Rollins (Slight Return) In the interest of posting somewhat regularly, I’m gonna share a thing here that was previously published on my old blog, Stay Heavy. I think it’s pretty funny, and maybe you will too. …

Get some go again already why dontcha? #rollinsband #meetingyourheroes

Went to the Five and Dime, Bought Myself a Copy of Time: A Thing About a Band Called Clutch (Part Two) I’m finally here to write more about Clutch. There’s a pretty good chance I’ll go on about a few things only marginally related to Clutch, as well, but I don’t know where th…

Keep on keepin on the low road, because on the higher ground you will find... #clutch #clutchtheband #theelephantriders

Cook As Needed for Pain, Volume 3: That Black Bean Sweet Potato Thing The Bouncing Souls saved my life. I’ll just go ahead and get that outta the way right now. They are one of the top three or four reasons I survived the second half of 1999 and the entirety of…

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An Unforeseen Future Nestled Somewhere in Time: A Louder Than Life-Related Update I work too much and I don’t write enough. It’s a tale as old as time. To be clear, I don’t work an exorbitant amount, but it’s still too much, because human beings cannot po…

A new post just went up, if anyone gives a shit. #louderthanlife #louderthanlife2025

Oops! I Did It Again: Adventures in People-Pleasing I had a complicated, confusing relationship with religion growing up. That doesn’t make me special, but it’s a fact about me nonetheless. That’ll be discussed here someday, or maybe it won’t. What’…

Here's a new thing. #universallifechurch #ULC #peoplepleaser

Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith stands firm against cannabis legalization at Muncie town hall Beckwith said he agrees with other state lawmakers that want to wait until cannabis is legalized at the federal level.

Get a load of this dumbfuck piece of shit.

I hope you shit your pants on live television, you fucking scumbag.

Even the Losers Get Lucky Sometimes You know what I’d really like to sit in right now? My homeboy Jim’s old green-and-beige plaid swivel rocking chair, that’s where. That was a perfect chair. I don’t know wher…

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Close Your Eyes and Then It's Past (An Exercise in Self-Indulgence) On high school, memories, and the meaninglessness of time

Here's another way to read it. It's the same, but different.

Close Your Eyes and Then It’s Past (An Exercise in Self-Indulgence) “Life goes by so fastYou only wanna do what you think is rightClose your eyes and then it’s pastStory of my life” Mike Ness wrote those words, and Social Distortion made that song. Ther…

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Here’s What I Learned Living Under My Rock: A Thing About Working, Writing, and Getting By My friend Ryan gave me a book a couple of years ago called Several Short Sentences About Writing, by a dude named Verlyn Klinkenborg. I may’ve mentioned it on this blog before, but that was m…

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Variations on a Theme, Nothing Works: A Thing About a Band Called Drug Church, a Sitcom Called Corner Gas, and Baked Potatoes I’ve mentioned this many times over the past few months, both on this “esteemed” blog and out loud, with my mouth, but I am currently in the throes of a full-bodied, months-long o…

In case you missed it: #drugchurch #cornergas #bakedpotatoes

Variations on a Theme, Nothing Works: A Thing About a Band Called Drug Church, a Sitcom Called Corner Gas, and Baked Potatoes I’ve mentioned this many times over the past few months, both on this “esteemed” blog and out loud, with my mouth, but I am currently in the throes of a full-bodied, months-long o…

I wrote something today! Well, I technically wrote most of it yesterday, but I finished it today, and now you get to reap the benefits. #drugchurch #cornergas #bakedpotatoes

What isn't wrong with him?

The ass-to-mouth, especially, is bigger in Texas.

Something Often Lost, Life is Process Not Product: A Thing About Life, and a Thing About a Band Called Drug Church Coffee poured, water refreshed, bladder emptied, I was seconds away from putting on my Drug Church playlist and opening up my laptop to see what came out of me. Business as usual many a solo day of…

Look, I wrote something! #drugchurch

If you wanna be a doctor, go to medical school

if you wanna be a spin doctor, just go ahead now

Wayback Wednesday: An Old Thing I Wrote About TV Theme Songs Note: I wrote this on June 17, 2013, and originally posted it on an old music-related blog that I kept with my homeboy Travis (from back in the day). Neither of us posted anything else on that blog…

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My 100th birthday... in prison? - This is abuse.

Sometimes I Catch Your Scent in the Breeze, But It’s a Little Bit Salty: A Thing About a Band Called Boxer NOTE: I started writing this on my old heavy-music-themed blog, Stay Heavy, back in 2018. I abandoned it for reasons unknown, and today I was reminded of its existence. I sat down to tackle Volume …

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I love beans!

Liz Cheney hands JD Vance his own ass on a platter. Fuck JD Vance.

The one in our townhouse on Adams. I wish I could've seen it, because I'm sure it was hilarious.

Extract My Brain and Flush It I think a lot about the two times in elementary school when I allegedly peed my pants. Here’s more information about those incidents. Also, hello! I went out for the basketball team in fifth …

Here's a thing.

Seriously, the word "drawers" can set me off into an absolute fit when I think of it in Brak's voice.

@amerrill2.bsky.social I just have to let you know: Brak is responsible for some of the biggest belly laughs I've experienced in my almost 48 years on this rock. Thank you for that.