In the 1996 cult classic Happy Gilmore our hockey-obsessed eponymous hero gets a date with the girl of his dreams, the PGA PR director Virginia Bennett portrayed by Julie Bowen and decides to take her on a romantic ice skating date. This is a very, very young Julie Bowen (above), presumably before she was defiledContinue reading “Talk about your all-time backfires”
Author Archives: Brian
¡Ay, it’s a pirate’s life for me!
It’s probably never wise to admit publicly to committing a crime, but there’s only like 10 or 15 people or so reading these posts and like old Red riding the bus down to Zihuatanejo to meet back up with Andy, it’s hard to imagine the US or Mexican government sending in the federales to dealContinue reading “¡Ay, it’s a pirate’s life for me!”
We’re heading back to the US
Well, sort of. Just as we were putting the final touches on packing our belongings to head to Mexico I received word from my host at The D Casino that I had been selected as one of the finalists in the drawing for a 2020 Corvette Stingray ZR1. The only catch being that the drawingContinue reading “We’re heading back to the US”
On being the villain of your own story
Got high for the first time in a long time today. I’ve been abstaining for awhile for the most part for a variety of reasons, some practical though some simply because I’ve known for awhile I’m not going to be able to smoke weed here as much as I used to at home and itContinue reading “On being the villain of your own story”
¡Bienvenidos a Mexico!
Well, that was an eventful day and a half. Wait, I was talking about our move to Puerto Vallarta; what were you thinking of? Unfortunately, the seditionist and insurrectionist acts of pro-Trump right-wing terrorists is not a laughing matter of course, but if you can’t laugh you gotta cry and I intend to do neither,Continue reading “¡Bienvenidos a Mexico!”
A trip along I-94 and Memory Lane
We visited Battle Creek for the first time in 16 months on Sunday, spent some time with my lifelong friend Chad, and said goodbye to my mother for awhile. The drive back to metro Detroit was spent mostly in silence, accidentally giving me a chance to reflect on the drive between Detroit and Battle CreekContinue reading “A trip along I-94 and Memory Lane”
Feliz Navidad!
In the regular phone calls with my mother during this pandemic I remind her that the cliche “no news is good news” has never been more true. With that in mind, this update is largely in the same vein. We’ve been staying at Tanya’s mother’s house since Dec. 13 and have literally not left theContinue reading “Feliz Navidad!”
Without a home during a pandemic
It’s been a tumultuous several weeks, but we closed the sale of our house Friday and have been spending the last several days bouncing from hotel to hotel here in Las Vegas before we fly back to Michigan to spend the holidays. Were it not for COVID, this would much more fun of an adventure,Continue reading “Without a home during a pandemic”
Our plans are finalized!
With the closing on the house now two weeks out and hopefully nothing standing in its way, we spent some time yesterday booking all of our travel arrangements and lodging in Puerto Vallarta for January and February. “Finalized” in the headline is doing a lot of work in the age of COVID, where nothing isContinue reading “Our plans are finalized!”
Why societies fail
Came across this fascinating article in The Atlantic about a UConn professor who has a model that can predict the decline and ascendance of a society. Seems like something that might be useful in the hellscape that has been and continues to be the year of our Lord, 2020. You can read the article forContinue reading “Why societies fail”
