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42 to Las Vegas
If you follow me on Twitter or Tumblr or Facebook or Four Square (there might be too many of these social networking sites) you probably already know what I did for my birthday trip. If you don’t you can find out here, even those of you that think you know what all I did might want to read along as I didn’t get to express everything in photos and hashtags. This summer I had asked…
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Marvel Now – More of the Same
No matter what Marvel comics may say, “Marvel Now” is a direct response to DC’s new 52. DC’s new 52 was and continues to be very controversial with decisions to radically change characters, history and relationships. When DC did its big relaunch I decided to buy the first few issues of all the comics and give them a fair share. Today, over a year later, I still regularly get about 10 issues and once in a…
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Meditation
Back when I was still a stoner I used to “meditate” with my friend Ted to the Rush songs on the 2112 and Hemispheres albums. Sometimes this involved pot, sometimes alcohol and once in a while candles – lots of hand movements and singing along. Very serious business that increased the presence of the 12 gods in my life. When I got sober a few years later I learned about Step 11 Sought through prayer and…
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Responsible
I want to talk about Tradition 3: “The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.” All you need to become a member of A.A. is a desire to not drink anymore, that’s it. The long form of this Tradition goes on to say: Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism. Hence we may refuse none who wish to recover. Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon money or conformity.…
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You Kept Your Promise
I recently had a story published on aagrapevine.org which makes me quite happy. This is the second time the Grapevine has published one of my stories, the first time was in the magazine back in May 1998 Issue. I’ve reprinted the story below: “You Kept Your Promise I work the graveyard shift at the local treatment center. It’s a laid-back job with not a lot to do, and there are times when I wish something…
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For the Love of Baseball… well Baseball Fans
I get the impression that it’s very un-American to not care much for baseball. Back in school I think we played softball and I was usually one of the last kids picked – I never got that dad who wanted to play catch in the back yard, mine always wanted to drink or beat the shit out of our mom whenever he wasn’t in jail or running from the cops. When I went out to…
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Why Don't We Just Leave
I’ve been thinking it a long while before the most current riots by Islamist that have led to destruction and death – Why don’t we just leave. Instead of having our young men and women scattered all over the world in military bases and embassies – I’d rather we had them here and we rebuilt our failing infrastructure and became better educators and students. I’d rather we spent the money we spend on wars and…
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Why We Should Vote
I’m going to try to write this without expressing my desires for you to vote for any particular candidate, yes it would be nice if you voted for the correct person, but it’s really just important to vote. In 2008: 56% of the population (eligible voters) actually went out and voted. 49% of eligible young people (18 – 24) voted 69% of people 45 and older voted You should also know that: almost half of…
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