James Joyce Hates You

The last time I updated this neglected site was to report on a trip to Indianapolis….there must be something about the Midwest that inspires...

A chilling Halloween tale. The title there...that's what my wife told me this weekend. See, she has a bit of a unique request for me to ...

This just in – I looked Indy up on Wikipedia last night (hoping to find negative information to support my attacks against it) and guess wha...

A few of you have questioned if Indianapolis could be quite as bad as I've made it seem and the Indy natives of you out there have deman...

Little-known facts about Indianapolis: It has one of the lowest suicide rates of any city over 100,000 people – experts attribute this to th...

More from the heartland! I'm staying at a very pleasant Comfort Suites, but I must mention one odd aspect of this hotel. Like many elev...

I figured I'd give this a boring title since it's such a boring place! What could be more boring about attending a conference in In...

Recently I had lunch with a colleague at the National Museum of the American Indian. One of the great things about the cafeteria here is tha...

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If you remember the old model of renting movies, we wandered around a big store and picked up cases containing DVDs/tapes on which was print...

( Wired magazine has described this web log as "high-brow humor about low-brow topics." Now I'm taking on "the cheerleade...

So even though I have a fairly long history of church attendance and I'm married to a woman who grew up Catholic, for the first time on ...

I'm old, by many standards. I'm not going to euphemistically say "I'm getting old," or "I'm older than I used...

My new nickname for a Mall fixture. Read on.... When I was the manager of a small, indy coffee shop in the District, we gave nicknames to th...

I'll return your registration fees. I'm very sorry.... I had thought about moving it to Washington state, but really, Portland is ...

This is Masters weekend, when a historic golf tournament is played in Georgia, drawing the best golfers from around the world and a huge vie...

I'm changing the name of this feature for a couple of reasons. 1. at the Monday-Thursday service at my church (so called because in th...

Who I hate today, April 9 - This woman hosting a webinar I had to waste an hour on this week. Among other brilliant things to come out of he...

You're pissing me off this week, commuter. What's gotten into you? There are fewer of you right now because most of you is on vaca...

In order to keep this site hip and "rad," as the kids say, I know I need to keep it fresh. That's why I'm rolling out a n...

Ha! Do you get it? Word play about word play! With a capital "S" and an apostrophe (you remember those, right? Our parents used t...

We are entering into a new age of communication and it is a brave, new world, my friends. I suppose we've been continuously making advan...