News from Green Acres: The house on Renfrew was busted and the guys are in the slammer. There are several dogs chained-up in backyards. The street is quiet and the streetlights are not on. Pat Caputo has a degree in journalism from a major university. He has won awards as a journalist. Pat Caputo is also …
The day after the Super Bowl is a day for NFL fans to wind down, and it’s a day for sports-haters to vent their hot air. I get it, people are sour because NBA players show up to practice with guns, NFL players accidentally shoot themselves, excessively celebrate. All hockey players do is fight. Baseball …
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This is a small batch of films that after watching, you will have a better understanding of why things are as f***ed up as they are. When you connect the dots, the picture becomes clear. Truth is stranger than fiction. 1) Money Masters: While this film is incredibly dry, and monotone, it does the best …
On my way home from work, I stopped for a six pack. I had some celebrating to do. I asked the cashier if they’d been busy tonight. He said “Not really.” Perhaps not all Tigers fans are as convinced the signing of Prince Fielder was the right move. Let’s face it: there was no replacement …
To be honest, I can’t remember it ever panning out. There is always someone striking out in the back of the mind. Always a guy hitting .187 in there. Always a guy letting routine ground balls go past. Always a Billy Buckner. Always a Jim Joyce. Always someone’s fault. Let me give you an example. …
If the United States engages Iran in any way (which is looking like an inevitability) I will have lost all faith in my government, all hope in peace, and all confidence the United Nations. Wait a minute, I never had confidence in the UN. All it has done is looked pretty – been a nice …
I took this phone picture wile waiting for a key to reenter my hotel room. Greektown Casino, Detroit.
I want 2011 back. Matter of fact, I want the last ten years back. Here’s what we’ll do. We will make our own webspaces and use facebook less. We will stop looking into our cell-phones so much. We will cook dinner and invite people over more often. We’ll ask more from our government, instead of letting …
All the peace has been written. There are too many things to sob about and fight over, too many burning trucks and people waving flags and children holding Kalashnikovs for us to sit around and waste our time writing about it. It gets done. The terrible parts of human nature need no writers to encourage them, or …
Drowsiness, diarrhea, vomiting, dry-mouth, fatigue, dizziness, UFO sightings, stomach pains, circus visions, coma, alcoholism, sudden interest in pop-culture, looking at cups of water, upper-leg soreness, abdominal pain, potlucks, mild to moderate amnesia, hypertension, belief in immortality, night-visions (including the appearance of mythological/historical characters such as Thor, Richard Pryor, George Washington and the Loch Ness Monster), dehydration, …