I think the problem in situations like this is that you can manage your expectations (none), modify your actions (less is good) and do your best to keep yourself happy, but you will never be able to prevent him from pulling your feet out from under you and putting you in your place, just because he can.

Hypothetically, today would have been decidedly average until I got an IM from a colleague alerting me to the discovery of her middle-aged client’s MySpace page, featuring his full name, location, blinky icons and assless chaps. And lots and lots of gay erotica. Again, purely speculation…but if I were to see such a page, the tears would have ( Read more... )

Inconsiderate people are damn annoying. My upstairs neighbor has either the world's largest vibrator or she rides a lawnmower in her living room. 11 PM, every night without fail, the low and incessant buzzing begins. I would willingly pay for sex for her for a month if it meant I'd sleep better. Also on my shit list: people that don't hold doors, ( Read more... )

In case you don't believe that I am a lightning rod for weird shit, enjoy the following. I even have a witness ( Read more... )

This year has brought me so much luck and happiness that I felt guilty asking for anything. And I didn't ( Read more... )

The days of traveling have run together and I'm sitting next to Patrick Swayze in a gorilla suit. Physically it truly could be, plus some cheap-looking pimp fur, a can of Jeri curl grease and 10 lbs. since the "Nobody puts Baby in a corner"/Dirty Dancing years. It is my third hour on this airplane, which may be unremarkable except that we've left ( Read more... )

Q101 Block Party Makes New Ale Tale ( Read more... )

"Ezra" is "Better Than" Ever ( Read more... )

Better Than Ezra "Sublime" in Chi-Town ( Read more... )

Velvet Revolver Goes Balls Out ( Read more... )