From the monthly archives:

March 2010

A Formal Proposal – “Hands On” Groping Experience

March 31, 2010

Most of the time that I lived in Phoenix (the first time) I didn’t have a car. I did have a piece of shit Yamaha for a little while – maybe six months – before that bit the dust. It did beat walking while that lasted, and once I was run over on my bicycle [...]

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Smashing Cast, Drinking Wine. A Fishing Sory

March 12, 2010

One of my jobs with the demolition company was breaking up cast iron. This is beyond a doubt the most boring job in the world. It is not anything to think about. There was a building once upon a time, and it had a basement. By the time I got there, the building was gone [...]

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Losing Virginity and Other Tales of Early Life

March 9, 2010

I haven’t really written much about my background, and growing up and all that sort of thing, so today’s entry is a bit of background to my oddness. I was born the fifth of six children into a military family. By the time I was four, my father had retired from that, after thirty plus [...]

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You’re Fired. And Moving on With My Life

March 2, 2010

Toward the end of my stay in Chicago (in 1984) things were getting a bit sticky. We decided (and by we I mean Tommy) to move out of the one bedroom apartment off of Rush and Division and move into this living area above the company’s downtown headquarters. That probably would have been Ok if [...]

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