Author Archives: DAK

We all know that St. Patrick’s Day is just an excuse to drink for those of age, and an excuse to pinch the hell out of people when you’re not (though that does carry on into the teen years when … Continue reading →

Due to “popular” (read: narcissistic) demand, I have added a site feed (see the link on the left) for those of you without three seconds to waste in clicking bookmarks.

Watched the Lakers play like the Showtime Lakers (eventually) last night as the beat the Magic in overtime. My excitement was tempered somewhat when I realized that Orlando is in second-to-last place in the Eastern Conference. But, in the words … Continue reading →

Verbatim excerpt from an e-mail sent to me from American Express: Dear , This e-mail is designed exclusively for you, to help you get the most value from your American Express(R) Card membership.We hope you enjoy it. It’s the personal … Continue reading →

Caution: Mullets may become entangled during ball retrieval. 80’s hipsters proceed with extreme care.

The end of an era El Vuato has driven off into the sunset. Here he is after safely driving ADG and me some 2177 miles to Baja and back. Which is where the appellation came from, the truck being un … Continue reading →

This entire war on “indecency” predicated by the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction makes me ill. The wardrobe malfunction inciting an avalanche of criticism in the form of 200,000 complaints to the FCC. There were 140 million Super Bowl viewers. >200,000 … Continue reading →

Skipping breakfast is one kind of sin. Having half a dozen Samoas Girl Scout cookies is a whole other kind of wrong entirely.

In 1974 President Nixon resigned the U.S. presidency in a reverberating cloud of scandal. Embarrassingly unknown-to-me-writer, Harry Martinson, won 1/2 the Nobel Prize in Literature “for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos”; I’ll have to check him … Continue reading →