Month: January 2006

The pen is mightier

As a young man (this was like twenty minutes ago), I remember reading that Mark Twain’s birth name was Samuel Clemens and thinking, “That’s not a real name! I refuse to call anyone by their non-real name! What a travesty! What does Sammy have to be ashamed of?” Nothing, it turns out. Clemens is a…

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The most important thing

Once, as a child, my pseudo-intellectual uncle gave me the worst piece of advice I’d ever heard: Every time you open a book, find the author and see who he is, for that is the most important thing to tell you how you should read the book. Essentially, he was saying authorship changes text. I…

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Why?

I was reading this comment on this post when I realized something. First the comment, so that you can get my mindframe: Terri Says: Instead of ranting about how all that the Christain believes is false, why don’t you research it for yourself. The sciences and archeology have done a lot of work on this…

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Some things nobody can ever know about guys

Question: If you could live your ideal life right now, ignoring the standards of taste and My mate’s answer: I’d win the lottery so I could still keep working where I work and going to school where I go to school, but not have to worry about all the useless stuff.. Also, my girlfriend and…

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I’m a grown up. Honest!

How old do you have to be to start buying your own clothes? Yesterday my mum came home with three pairs of pants and a vest… for me. Then I realized that in the past three or four years, all of my new clothes have come in the form of gifts. Apparently, I dress in…

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This is going to be a long year…

You know, I just realized something… today may be the first day in years that I haven’t written anything… anywhere! … aww damn it! Related posts: Pixel Q. Styx: Year 0 Whoo! Life. I’ve been waiting for this for months! Life rules! Nothing bad could possibly happen now, I mean: I’m alive, right? No more…

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