Category Archives: Jovial Cynicism

The Ride

The Ride

Here’s another great Christmas wallpaper from Digital Blasphemy (Don’t you just love that name?). This one goes out to all you secular pagans who want Xmas wallpaper rather than Christmas wallpaper… or to those of you, like me, who enjoy the various sundry holiday traditions that have accumulated in lake-effect style (like Frosty and Burl [...]

Church Hopping

Church Hopping

I think I’ve found a new place to worship… Ok, seriously this isn’t a real church sign, but it sure does look good, doesn’t it? It’s courtesy of churchsigngenerator.com. The saying is my choosing, and I think it’s a little diddy I heard… probably at a church business meeting or something. It’s even funnier that [...]

Miami, Groton and Pearl Harbor

Miami, Groton and Pearl Harbor

On this anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor (probably the most infamous day in US Naval history) I am in Groton, CT at the New London Sub Base to welcome my little brother back from his deployment cruise on the USS Miami. It is on a day like this that one, if they have [...]

*Ssshhhhh*

*Ssshhhhh*

*whispering* Beware the “micro-inequities”… they’re everywhere. Yesterday I learned, watching a Lockheed Martin sponsored ethics video, that little tiny critters known as micro-inequities can infiltrate the body of employees and cause them to be sarcastic, dismissive, intolerant and unaccepting of others. After doing a search online I learned that “micro-inequities” were discovered by some PhD [...]

Chardonnay and Lean Pockets

Chardonnay and Lean Pockets

Yesterday afternoon I had a moment… I was sitting on the couch enjoying a Chardonnay and a Lean Pocket while watching news clips of shoppers trampling themselves to finish their Christmas shopping before noon… and I’m thinking to myself that all common sense has gone to pot. Here these people are pushing each other to [...]

It begins…

It begins…

This so-called Black Friday starts the Christmas shopping season… the high-water-mark of post-modern commercialism’s year. I, too, will eventually crawl out of my dank shadows to partake of the great money exchange. I will endure the acrid smell of taxes generated by the friction of bills on palms and plastic in card readers (smells something [...]

Church is for Punks

Church is for Punks

Church is for punks… at least, that’s probably what Jesus would say (and I’d be the first to put it in red). As a shout out to all my homies-of-faith (especially in Terra Nova), I present you with a Fox News clip from a spot they did (19 July 2005) on the Underground Graffiti Church [...]