The Echo archives are currently unavailable but I've posted this week's column from my personal file. I hope this edition helps anyone currently stressed out over finals week. I don't have an exact date because as I stated earlier the archives are down but it originally ran this time of year three years past. As soon as the archives are up I'll ( Read more... )

What a wonderful form of therapy writing has proven to be for me, therapy free of charge. It's a sensational release on a variety of levels and I've experienced few things in this life that leave me feeling more content and peaceful than finalizing any given piece of writing. With that said it stands as a crying shame that I don't do it more often ( Read more... )

providence [pra-ve-dens] - noun: divine guidance or care, the quality or state of being provident. 

This entry was the third column I wrote for the Eastern Echo and originally ran on January 23, 2004. The column focuses on space exploration, one of my varied interests.

Space is sweet @ the Echo

Space exploration key to future life, technology

Space exploration key to future life, technology

It has been awhile since any real interest has been ( Read more... )

Another week, another word. Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'...
lexicon [lek-se-kan] - noun: the vocabulary of a language, speaker, or subject.

This column ran just over two years ago, spilling that Echo ink on Thursday, November 10, 2005. I do imagine I had some fun writing it. Bastards.

The GOP is pathetic @ the Echo

GOP approval ratings in tailspin

GOP approval ratings in tailspin

The GOP is crumbling under the weight of its own arrogant incompetence. And as the crack in the facade ( Read more... )

It must be a tragic state of affairs when duck and cover begins to seem like a viable option. Afterbirth? Forget the afterbirth. I shiver at what hideous a whore it must have taken to birth such an unholy monstrosity. I'd happily beat a river dance into the placental rot if it meant being spared the view of New World Jenova. I heard a dirge once or ( Read more... )

One Mr. Cikalo recently suggested that words selected for this column should be accompanied with a pronunciation. Well, that I think is well enough but don't expect me to include all those funky accents marks and upside down letters. Any further suggestions may or may not be appreciated. Submit at your own risk.
genesis [je-ne-ses] - noun: the ( Read more... )

Here's a fun, little column I wrote that hit the Echo Wednesday, March 22, 2006.

Scientologists look stupid at the Echo:

Show 'South Park' about laughs, not religion

Show 'South Park; about laughs, not religion

I believe in God. It's important that I state this at the onset of this column because if it were not to be so expressly stated after ( Read more... )

Don't be a douche bag, don't be santimonious, don't be Sean Hannity...he's a douche bag.
sanctimonious-adjective: hypocritically pious.