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You know those little flaps of lip skin you get in the winter? The ones that when you insist on tugging on them finally come off with a chunk of healthy skin? So how stupid does it make me that I do this every single day all winter? / Digg… Continue Reading More Stupid Human Bits
Nick
From behind, which is how I first see her, she looks like any teenage girl. Dressed in pink fuzzy pajama pants with a striped hooded sweater, her hair curled up into a casual loose bun. She is the epitome of adolescent girl. But her face, oh my god, her face.… Continue Reading Faces of Strangers
Velvet Verbosity thinks this blog is dope yo! Eco Chick Speaking of blog kudos, I’ve received two blog awards in the last couple of months, and I still have yet to put them up. Someday I’ll get around to tooting my own horn. / Digg this / Stumble this
Nick
Well folks, in anticipation of wild fame and fortune, I’ve decided to move this site to its own domain with hosting and everything. Trouble is, now I need to actually know something about how websites make it to being live, and how templates work, and how to FTP, and how… Continue Reading Velvet Verbosity is Moving OR Velvet Verbosity is Moving if I Can Figure This Crap Out!
From the BBC comedy Man Stroke Woman. / Digg this / Stumble this
Nick
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912 From the dog’s point of view, his master is an elongated and… Continue Reading A Man and His Dog
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This is one political post I will make no apologies for. In all of our distraction with the very good cause of Haiti, somehow this law got passed by the Supreme Court right under our noses, with so few mentions in the press as to be suspiciously negligible, and…well, just… Continue Reading America Has Made an Official Deal with the Devil – Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
A couple of recent conversations got me thinking. I have a lot of male friends, and among the range of men I know they fall all across the spectrum in their ideas of women, their level of comfort with their own masculinity, and their level of what I will unabashedly… Continue Reading Double-D Standards, Double-D Irony
Nick
Another week has slipped by, sucked into the vortex of “past”. This past week for me was heavy, in a good way, like moving a box of beloved books and then reveling in that sore muscle haze while blowing the dust off the bindings, and rediscovering cherished stories and philosophical… Continue Reading 100 Words on Nervous
I’m here. I’m alive. And kicking. I’ll be back soon with something of actual substance. Send me some love. Tell me what you want to hear about. Give me a writing prompt. / Digg this / Stumble this
