“Well, at least he died doing something he loved.”
This is a platitude often bandied about when someone dies in some kind of tragic, extreme activity/sports related accident. It is supposed to make people feel better; knowing that while they’ve lost a friend/relative/lover/particularly popular celebrity, at least that person went out at his or her own personal [...]
For the most part, I am an optimist. I like to see the world as a pleasant place, full of goodness and light.
Unfortunately, there are people out there who don’t share my view. Furthermore, they are constantly angered – threatened, even – by my positivity, and seek every opportunity to destroy me.
One of these people [...]
Sometimes there is such a thing as too much media spin.
One of the perks of my job (and I use the term “perks” about as loosely as Ke$ha uses the term “singer”) is the random assortment of media releases I get from the most bizarre of places. I don’t know how my name ended up on [...]
* But not THAT tale of concussion, stupid girls and vampires – this one predates that one by eight years. Also, it is real. The working title of this story was actually “Shut Up, Stephanie Meyer”.
The Conclusion
About a month after I became a teenage swinger for about fifteen seconds, Bella had braces put on. Being [...]
As a young thing growing up in Queensland, I never had to explain anything Queenslanderish, because we were all Queenslanders. We all said the word “pool” with about three ‘o’s too many, we all referred to scho(ooo)ol bags as “ports” which we placed in “portracks” outside our classrooms, and none of us had any concept [...]
I have been single for a long time. My whole life, in fact. A combination of coming out of the closet late, embarking on a career that seriously hindered my ability to date (a career that is thankfully over), and just being a shy, nervous twit are all contributing factors to this.
I bring up my singledom [...]
As I hurtle frighteningly closer to my 29th birthday, I sometimes fear that I may be getting “old”. I don’t know at what point (if there is one) a person suddenly falls out of touch with the youth demographic and becomes a doddering old twit, but it’s probably coming. And the worst part is I [...]
I play a lot of videogames. I would call myself a gamer. I would even, at a pinch, describe myself as a fairly competent gamer. I have enough basic skill to be able to pick up any new game I come across fairly quickly. I am proud of my abilities in this arena.
At least I [...]
Twice now, I have been served my McDonalds drive-thru coffee by the most ridiculously attractive man I have ever seen in a poxy brown sun-visor.
For a lot of people, this would be a good thing. A good perve is considered, by the greater population, to be wonderful. Women can laze away hours staring at a [...]
I’m a simple man, with simple machinations: I am a total sucker for any guilt-based leverage, and I’m far too easily bought. That’s really all there is to me. So, last week, when The Stag discovered that I did not know how to change the oil in my car and, more importantly, had no desire to learn, he [...]