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The continuing story of a man fast approaching middle age, armed with a fast wit and bad intentions. Follow me through the Atlanta nightlife, my own sad romantic life, and whatever else crops in my mind.

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  • Merry Christmas

    Posted on Thursday December 25th, 2008 at 07:00 in funny, humor, gift, 2008, zen

    Um...there ain't a whole lot more after that.Sorry.Bad Economy.But it's allowed us all to get back to basics, to understand that the Holiday isn't about what we get, it's about love and family and friends and celebrating another year of health and ha...

  • I voted.

    Posted on Tuesday November 4th, 2008 at 15:06 in politics, thoughts, 2008, Bullshit

    I voted today at 11:55am at my local precinct.I had been in line since just before 8:30am. The line wasn't that long. Or so it seemed.After heavily medicating myself - Airborne, Zicam, and then Comtrex - I arose with only the vestiges of symptoms of ...

  • The Last Weekend Roundup

    Posted on Monday November 3rd, 2008 at 14:21 in women, 2008, party, good, weekend

    Mental Rehab Post #35Sometimes in the course of living, we live just a little too hard. And then comes a reckoning, and then shortly thereafter, nachos. Or is it pie? In either case, as I've told many a folk, most of things that happen to me are my f...

  • The Other Phone Thing

    Posted on Friday October 31st, 2008 at 09:04 in thoughts, women, 2008, crazy theories

    Mental Rehab Post #34Bad habits, annoying traits, things we do that we do and have been doing for ages for no good reason at all. You all do them. Okay, I do them too. And some of them desperately need to be fixed, as some are just not good for conti...

  • Odd Quotes

    Posted on Thursday October 16th, 2008 at 10:15 in 2008, quotes

    Imagine if you will, twelve starving murderous convicts sitting around a table. In middle of that table is steak dinner. Suddenly the lights go out. Me? I'm the onion rings.- Quote from a movie I never watched....

  • Ain't gon' Bump No Mo, with no....

    Posted on Wednesday October 15th, 2008 at 09:11 in 2008, bad, crazy theories, sporty

    Mental Rehab Post #29A lot of things are just that...things. One of the great bits of personal advice in the twenty first century isn't a lyrical concept on wings of gossamer, or even a statement you can live by, but a three word chant that distills ...

  • Odd Quotes

    Posted on Tuesday October 14th, 2008 at 10:56 in 2008, quotes

    The moment we stop chasing our dreams is the moment we stop living and start just going through the motions.- Me at 2:35am. (Sent to Shade and Sporty)...

  • Weekends on the slow and easy

    Posted on Monday October 13th, 2008 at 22:30 in women, 2008, law, changes, crazy theories

    Mental Rehab Post #28And in the beginning, I really wanted to get drunk so I could forget all that had transpired, but then I realized that I couldn't get that drunk or consume that much alcohol in one sitting. And that I really didn't want to forget...

  • Quiet Moments in the Fall

    Posted on Monday October 6th, 2008 at 22:13 in thoughts, friends, 2008, zen

    Mental Rehab Post #27School has been 'berry 'berry good to me. School has done something that I don't think I would have been able to do on my own. Which is for large parts of the day I am able to put a vast number of personal second guesses out of m...

  • A New Kind of Weekend

    Posted on Monday September 29th, 2008 at 16:37 in thoughts, 2008, atlanta, weekend

    Mental Rehab Post #25Sometimes there are no excuses. You have to stand up and do those things that have to be done, make those moves that have to be made, damn the personal cost. And so this weekend when the nightlife was running hot and my alter ego...

  • Late Nights and Books of Gobblety Gook

    Posted on Tuesday September 23rd, 2008 at 21:53 in 2008, drama, scandal, snow, Bullshit, crazy theories

    Mental Rehab Post #24Nothing like real life to get your head out the clouds, or your own ass, and get the new-ish you headed in some direction. It may not be the direction you want to be going, but anyplace other than here might be a better yet. My g...