Jun 08
The elusive Ryan Oakley spotted in the wild. Is it evidence of the creature’s existence? A few days ago, I made a joke about this article. I threatened to do a “How to Be Ryan Oakley” theme week. But it was just a joke. Later that day, on my way to work, I saw a …
Oct 26
And that does it for another theme week. I honestly never realized how many of my heroes had been murdered. (All of them except for Lydon and, frankly, he’d be the first overboard.) And most of them didn’t even deserve it. So this week failed in one of its goals. I’m still in hate with …
Oct 25
Malcolm X didn’t hate white people. And that frankly amazes me. Not only because he had every right to but because it’s a lot better than I do on most days. He did, however, understand that it was ridiculous to ask people who had stolen your freedom to give it back. You need to take …
Oct 25
Last year, as a birthday present to myself, I bought a replica of Julius Caesar’s sword. It was to serve as a reminder to me. When Caesar was 38, he had nothing except a lot of debt and was head-man in a tiny little shit-hole somewhere in Spain. Although he had said that: “I would …
Oct 24
I thought it may be amusing to write about Wilde without quoting him. But that would be impossible. So let’s start off with one: “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” Sometimes they’ll kill you anyway. They certainly killed him. He’s a complicated figure and I’ve always …
Oct 23
Make no mistake, although some people still hate the fellow, and however HBO’s Rome chose to portray him, Cicero was a great man. He was a very rare thing: an attorney and politician with integrity. As a lawyer, he thought that no lawyer should ever turn down a just case on the basis of money, …
Oct 22
Let’s get this fucker out the way first. I said some time ago that there’s two things that relax me when I’m miserable. Owls and John Lydon. The owls are easy enough to explain. Owls are great. But what is it that I like about John Lydon? It’s certainly not his celebrity. And I can’t …
Oct 22
It’s been a really long time since my last theme week. So long, in fact, that I forgot I even did theme weeks. (One of these days I need to figure out how to organize all of those into the side-bar.) So I’m doing another one. About my heroes. There’s a couple reasons for this. …
Aug 11
As you can see, my impeccable fashion sense is developing. Funny enough, so is my disdain for school. I hated grade four. Just fucking hated it. I was getting dragged out of classes for speech therapy, which was going nowhere, getting the shit kicked out of me at recess while teachers watched and just having …
Aug 11
Looking at my report cards from grade three, I realize that I’ve always had it and grade four confused. This was my first year in another new school. (Grade one was Orono Public, grade two was Lochart and grade 3 was Newcastle Public.) I can hardly remember Mrs. Tuttle. I do remember that she complimented …
