Excerpt from Dead Rooster’s Mediocre Guide to Women: Sometimes, trying to be nice—even if it’s totally sincere—can get you into trouble. Avoid extraneous phrases that can lead your girl to reconstruct a derogatory meaning to what you’ve actually said: Girlfriend: Angelina Jolie is hot You: She’s not THAT hot Girlfriend: She’s pretty hot You: You’re [...]

This morning I was practically frothing-at-the-mouth with excitement to write a useful article illustrating the dangers of using certain accelerants—such as gunpowder—to ignite stubborn charcoal briquettes in backyard barbecue grills, when I opened my email program and discovered this: You may think I used some kind of Photoshop trickery to falsely inflate the size of [...]

Last night during a fun conversation in BlogCatalog‘s forum involving NASA and how they lost the original footage of the moon landing, the 1980′s TV show, Full House, naturally became part of the conversation. For me, this brought back a flood of traumatic teen-age memories such as shark attacks, police shootouts, and going to high-school [...]

Today is my brother David’s birthday so I thought I’d bake him a cake. I used a Teddy Bear shaped cake pan (because that’s how I roll–only the finest novelty cake pans are used in my kitchen). But after I applied frosting and placed the Junior Mints for the eyes and nose, it turned out [...]