Category: General

Kilimanjaro and the Fletchers

Categories Friends What did you do this summer? Well Austri and her mother did something very few people did. They climbed to the summit Mount Kilimanjaro. She’s my age (41) and her mother is 72 and has a new knee. This is an amazingly inspiring story considering what they did to make this trip happen. […]

Health Alert: Acid Reflux, Aciphex, Nexium, and Vocal Cords

Five weeks ago I reported about my health problems and the lesion found on my vocal chords — we named him Fred in the previous post. Just in case some of you actually give a flying fuck, I have an update. Fred was supposed to be entirely gone now. Then I’d be happy and tell […]

Naked Teens On Parade (Solved)

Previously in the Quagmire I discussed Naked Teens On Parade which didn’t generate a lot of traffic. Yet here I am motivated to post a follow up story. Apparently, and I think it’s a good decision, the tiny town has decided to let nature be in charge. If the kids want to be naked, the […]

My Space

Um, yeah, okay. I have a MySpace page . The direct URL is http://www.myspace.com/darsys I made this page because my friend Maury invited me to do it. I’ve made a little profile which is far less cluttered and offensive than most. So, I’ll probably leave my account there — though I doubt it’ll get much […]

Firefox Fan Ruins Microsoft’s Day

Any bad day for Microsoft is a good day for me. The worse the day they have, the better my day. I hate ’em — and not just ’cause Windoze sucks more than a high-priced hooker. My dislike for Microsoft started before Windows*, I believe. So some fan of Firefox knew Internet Explorer 7 was […]

The Return and Death of Crazy Frog

I’ve blogged about him before in my post Crazy Frog or Coldplay? and now I shall kill him — for he’s responsible for some 20,000 of my blog hits — visitors who come and leave without nary a glance at the rest of this blog. View this 28 second clip and then read on: (Link […]

Naked Teens On Parade

Amazingly, this is not a shameless ploy to get people to read my blog. With such a title you might actually imagine such a thing. This post is as sexually titillating as a visit to the nude beach with Nancy Reagan. I saw this post in Rob’s blog, followed it to the article, and read […]

Rats in the Attic

I have rats in my attic. That really, really, really, really, sucks. Why do I have rats in the attic? Because I went so long without an actual roof, that some rats decided to move in. The exterminator was here, and he’s set some traps which he hopes will work. However, my attic is so […]

Another Mac Story, of a sort….

Yes, I’m always going on about why PCs suck. It’s true. Or more accurately, at least PCs that are running Microsoft Windows. Sometimes I blog about people who switch away from the PC to the Mac — I am, after all, on a mission to convert the world one person at a time. Well here’s […]

So what is this “Emo Boy” thing?

Emo Boys: this term has come up a lot lately online, and I never heard it until very recently. So, being the inquisitive type, I’ve read a bit online at Wikipedia and also at the Urban Dictionary. I have a definition, but knowing what word means technically doesn’t always mean you really know what it […]