I went golfing a couple days ago, and an unprecedented thing happened to me. You may think hole in one, eagle, or, heaven forbid, broke a club over my knee through a cloud of obscenities. But no, I was hit by a ball. Out of nowhere, a ball flies over the trees like some kind …

I’m always mystified by excess punctuation.:”-+=\,/? I have a friend who sent out an email one time where every single sentence ended with an exclamation point. It wasn’t a joke either. If she was meaning to convey her excitement, I’d have to give her five stars!!!! There’s a retail store near my apartment called “Draperies, …

So I just wasted an hour of my life watching “Next Action Star” which, much like “Last Comic Standing,” they picked the worst people to move on. All the contestants talked about how they just want to act and they have the talent to do it, and then I thought “Since when do you need …

So I filled up my gas tank the other day when the gas price was $2.15 a gallon, making it the most expensive in my lifetime, which is perfect because I have so much money I’ve been wanting to get rid of. At the same time, I’ve seen several commercials on TV sponsored by our …

A friend of mine is in a class where they do a section on the movie “Rocky.” Discussing that movie could take a whole book. However, here’s a snippit from an article she had to read about Rocky called “The Rhetoric of ‘Rocky’”: “The social value model has five dimensions. First, societal values exist in …

Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone! By the way, that’s spanish for the Fifth of Mayo! I celebrated by eating at Q’doba. I know it wasn’t much, but it was probably the most I’ve done to celebrate Cinco de Mayo ever. Anyway, that’s not the point. As a few friends and I sat around eating burritos, …

There’s a local radio station here in Grand Rapids, MI that is called WGRD. My wonderful co-workers choose to play this crap almost every day (at 6 in the morning no less). The station promotes itself as “New Rock” although every morning I hear at least 9 or 10 songs that came out when I …

I tell ya. The beer I’m drinking right now is cold-filtered smooth, and I can taste it. You can just tell. It’s not all hot and bothered like those other beers.

I wonder sometimes why I get such satisfaction out of putting these random thoughts or essays up on this website. What’s the point of having my own website? I put these random thoughts up and I have no real direct way of knowing that anyone is actually reading them. Or if anyone actually is affected. …

So I went to the ballet a couple nights ago, and I’ve got to tell you, I’m glad to see that woman-tossing hasn’t gone out of style yet.