i have lived [and continue to live] a full life… The other day i posted about how my wife organised Black Widow and Hulk costumes so that we could watch the new Avengers: Age of Ultron movie dressed up. i also returned home from my trip to Durban to find that she had discovered an old stack of photos from my life with some really crazy hairstyles and some crazier life moments documented right there [...]
Oh sure, you type LOL, but not while you are ever actually laughing out loud - you wouldn't have the stability... But in the meantime let's take some time out to appreciate five more quotes from my favourite actual LOL guy, Jack Handey: 'Don't ever get your speedometer confused with your clock, like I did once, because the faster you go the later you think you are.' [Jack Handey] 'One thing that a computer can [...]
It started with great timing and a Facebook status i stumbled upon: Skillet play at Freedom Festival 27 april, Cape Town Ostrich farm. Want to win tickets from me?? Now to give this some perspective, Skillet have for the longest time been my bonus favourite band... for many years of my life i listed four bands as my top 4: U2, Coldplay, R.E.M., Tree63 and then Skillet was next in line. So understudy in case any of [...]
[And now, without further ado, our prompt (optional as always) for Day Eight: today I challenge you to write a palinode. And what’s that? It’s a poem in which the poet retracts a statement made in an earlier poem.] It has always been you It has been claimed This by myself In previous Aubade, That coffee was The thing i dreamt of When in bed i laid However, when my wife it read She was [...]
Two steps forward and then one to the right. I stand and wait, watching... guarding... carefully listening to my own heavy breathing... I try to remain focused completely on the spaces around me, watching for you, zoning out of the chatter and in on any nearby movement that may be about to occur. This time you will not get by me. I am ready, alert, prepared for the inevitability of your attack. One thing in mind, [...]
So sometimes when i'm not myself i become this guy Brad Fish who has a whole series of videos warning people about Dangerous Things You Can Least Expect [DTYCLE] which were either funny or not, depending on whether you found them funny or not. And then today, i discovered that sometimes when i'm not Brad Fish, i might end up becoming Erik [with a K] Erik loves poetry and the soothing effect it has on him [...]
You know how this works. We write LOL, but we barely ever really mean it... but Jack Handey is one of the guys who i know have made people LOL best and for real... so take a look at these offerings and see if any of them do it for you: 'It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.' [Jack Handey] 'I guess of all [...]
Let me begin with a disclaimer: What follow is not true of all smokers. In fact, most of the smokers I know are very much not like this. But I strongly suspect we will all know exactly who these particular offenders are. The signs will be your head nodding along as you read this, or your fingers starting to, on their own accord, clench into the angriest of fists if you're actually shouting out loud, "Yes! [...]
i love being serious. i love engaging with difficult topics and even difficult people sometimes in the hope that we can find some mutual understanding and maybe even each learn something from each other. but sometimes, i also think we need to CALM THE FLIP DOWN PEOPLE and just be able to take a moment to sigh or smile or eye-roll or laugh or even write LOL even though we didn't actually LOL but just [...]
i hate white people! i know, i know, i could barely believe it myself when i found out, but having heard so many people suggest it on my blog the past week or two [some in comments i chose not to print due to their not-fit-to-be-read-by-other-humans content] it really must be true. It started when i started suggesting that i don't think white people are better than black people [if i had a dollar for [...]