I’m still making adjustments to my new life in Hamilton. The city of Hamilton lies in Southern Ontario in Central Canada. Summers are humid, winters are chilly. Spring and fall are beautiful. I’m surrounded by youth. As if by osmosis, it makes me feel I’m one of them. When you’re on the bus and surrounded […]

If there’s one thing I like, it’s organized chaos, where the face of everything seems deeply messed up but underneath there is semi-strict order. The “pink revelry” is a party that begins when the sun goes down and takes place under artificial illumination. It is shockingly naked, with emotions being expressed freely and taboo thoughts […]

Well, I’ll be a son of a gun of a fact. Today’s fact is that The city slicker beats the country hick 99 times out of 100. It’s a dangerous world to be ignorant in. And the yokel from out in the boonies has a monopoly on true ignorance. He doesn’t read books (all that […]

The portal to another dimension was now open. It swirled in colors: purple, black, and the deepest of blues. A skeletal hand was coming out of the portal, straight at your eyes. It had five rings on its five bony fingers. One ring showed the earth rotating around an onyx backdrop supposed to represent space. […]

The dangers of burnout in the life of a man are very real. It is all too easy to exhaust the supply of oxygen and go flaming out in a burnout that’ll make a minor disaster look like a nuclear strike. We all need time to break and recharge. Without this, we are perilously close […]

Did pinball machines come before arcade games? Was the disastrous “TILT” warning a precursor to “GAME OVER” in all its forms? Be a pinball wizard of life. Shoot balls for the sky. Kiss the balls with your flapping pedals. Only then will you see that you can’t miss. This is a sure thing. I never […]

Illegal immigrants are to be excluded from the new version of the U.S. Census, by fiat order of President Donald J. Trump. It all has a carnival air about it. One half expects a field of white mist to roll out of the sidelines of the stage while martial Laibach music thunders on the industrial-strength […]

“Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you […]