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Another Thing I’m Way More Proud Of Than I Deserve

Here’s another thing I’m way more proud of than I deserve. I was seeing a bunch of people posting that tweet about park rangers leading the resistance.

This led me to think, and then post: I’m imagining a bunch of park rangers racing around in a jeep with the top down screaming “WOLVERINES!”

Of course, it didn’t stop there. This led to a meme:

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I’ve been posting this all over Facebook whenever the park service comes up in relation to the above ideas. All over.

There is no way of describing how much fun I found this. Obviously it was at least enough that I was going to subject all of you to it now too. Sorry about that. Though, if that sort of thing bugged you, I doubt you’d be a reader here. I do this kind of thing a lot.

You Know What I Miss? The Brothers Grunt

You know what I miss? The Brothers Grunt.

I think I’m the only one. It lasted such a short time because everyone else seemed to hate it, but that grotesque, surreal humor was right up my alley. I could go for more episodes of that.

Have You Liked My Facebook Author Page Yet?

Have you liked my facebook author page yet? How about the facebook page for Apocalypse All the Time? The one for Not Quite so Stories? They could all use a few likes.

Then again, so could this monkey:

Remember? Remember?

Remember?

Remember?

Can You Believe There Was A Serious Product Involving Spray Painting Your Head?

Can you believe there was a serious product that involved you spray painting your head? I can understand that baldness bothers some people and they’d go to some (perhaps deluded) extremes to deal with it, but basically spray painting their head? Maybe if they were some sort of punk-style person or something, but run of the mill people?

Remember that?

Worse, there are still a ton of products like that on the market. It’s still around. Just like the Flowbee.

The Art of Storytelling Returns This Saturday!

The Art of Storytelling reading series returns this Saturday! I’m pretty excited about this and hope you will be too. It’s a great reading series in the Denver area and things have been on hiatus in the last few months as they pinned down a new regular venue, but it’s all back on again!

Saturday January 28th 3PM Prodigy Coffeehouse 3801 E 40th Ave, Denver, Colorado 80205. The features this month will be Monique Antonette Lewis and Traci L. Jones. I’m excited about that, and hoping to have a chance read at the open mic portion. Should be fun, and it’s a chance to support community youth and local business by supporting Prodigy Coffeehouse.

Here’s a link to the Facebook page so you can let them know you’re coming and/or check out more details.

Dear “Independent Brokerage Firm” That Called Me At Work Today

Dear “independent brokerage firm” that called me at work today: Ha! Do you know what makes me mistrust a business? A cold call. When that business is something as supposedly solid as financial services, a cold call is even more alarming. You are literally making it less likely that I will want to do business with you by calling. Combine that with the fact that you are bothering me at work? Now I trust you even less than before AND I have a reason to like you less.

Why even bother?

I know you do this because some people end up talking to you and even end up paying you to do something…but not me. A cold call from an “independent brokerage firm?” This is what I think of:

Save your breath and don’t call me. It’s not even worth your time, much less mine.

I’ll Eat Vegetables Just Because They Are Purple

I do not generally care for yams or sweet potatoes. I especially don’t care for them candied or canned or in any way preserved. I can dig them steamed/baked fresh with a little butter once in a while, but not much and only once in a long while. That canned candied stuff with marshmallows on top is right out. However, I will try most any vegetable if it is purple.

For example, I got a bunch of purple potatoes when these were at Sprouts recently:

That’s why my wife and I bought a purple yam. We don’t even know how to cook a yam and have no idea what we’ll do with this one. We just wanted to try it. We’ll probably just bake it, toss on some butter, and hope for the best.

Wish us luck.

Huh?

Huh?

Mushroom! Mushroom!

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