We've got a thread about this on the site, but I hadn't updated in a while (for a very good reason, which I'll mention later) so I figured I'd do it here ( Read more... )

I'm really growing to appreciate my friends this season, and not just because they're giving me stuff. It's still almost a week before Christmas and I'm already getting the best gifts ever, including...


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There have been a couple of cosmetic changes in the last week to the Progressive Boink staff, and as a contributing editor to America's number one magazine TV Guide I offer up my "Cheers" and "Jeers."

Jeers! to B


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So I've started taking calls at work, which is nice. When I moved back down to Bristol I didn't have the opportunity to transfer from Circuit or get my job back at our local Best Buy because we have neither of those things. We have a shoe store where the sign is a gigantic shoe and a burger joint made to look like a big hamburger. Bristol is ( Read more... )

You know, when I was a little boy and a teenager I heard "you're weird" a lot. The kids in southern Virginia and the surrounding toilet houses tend to think anything involving thought, opinion, or creativity is weird. I learned to take a step back and say, "Okay, I'm not REALLY weird. They're just ignorant ( Read more... )

It's come to my attention that I should've been doing this all along. Maintaining a journal of some kind that will allow me a place to write without feeling like I've got to write necessarily to "please" and alternately where I don't have to curb the wrestling jokes. Like I do that anyway ( Read more... )