I have a car. It’s a wonderful little car, and I like it. It’s also old. And kind of falling apart. And kind of held together by duct tape… I inherited my little gold sedan from my father who drove it to and from work everyday. It’s been a good car over the years, despite [...]
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Everybody needs a good wingman. Someone to help you get in the door. Someone to help you look cool. Someone to fill in any awkward pauses in conversation, or to distract your date’s friend so you can have a little alone time. As long as there were men there were wingmen. Even before there were airplanes, there [...]
For some time I have been thinking about the post I would write with today’s comic strip. For weeks I have been formulating various thoughts in my mind, trying desperately to piece them together into some kind of written structure. So many different topics came forward: true friendship, inner beauty, social anxieties, objectification, self worth, [...]
Once upon a time, I dated a girl. She was quite attractive, despite the fact that I have since decided she was most assuredly the spawn of Satan. At the time, men were constantly drooling over her and showering her with compliments of how attractive she was. One day while spending an afternoon together talking, she [...]
e·piph·a·ny [ih-pif-uh-nee] a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. Who are your friends? Your true friends? People you can really count on through thick and thin? Maybe I use the term too narrowly, but in my [...]
I have discovered that I am becoming less and less of an extrovert as I become older. Perhaps maturity brings with it less of a need to be “cool” and fit in. Maybe I don’t have the time I once had to devote to being popular and extroverted. Or maybe I’m just being lazy. Young [...]
“Your boyfriend is such a tool. Seriously. Just look at the guy. That stupid face. That stupid hair. I bet he pops up the collars on his polo shirts. Who does he think he is? Anyone with half a brain can see that the guy is a total tool. But then I guess you don’t [...]
Self control is important. We all need to have self control. Take your job for example. There you are, sitting at your super enticing desk, with your super enticing paperwork piling up around you. That paperwork can be oh so enticing. I know you’re just DYING to jump right in with reckless abandon and get [...]
Throughout all ages, beautiful women have had the power to cause men to become helpless and stupefied. They literally remove thoughts and words from our mouth and leave us with nothing but the most clueless expressions. I know this from personal experience. Once upon a time, in a far away land called junior high school, there was [...]