Category: Stories

Brief Nudity (BN). Noun. Definition: The story of my young adulthood; two words responsible for hours of absent-minded movie watching. The sun shining through the clouds on an otherwise cloudy TV day. Often the only redeeming quality of a low-budget "B movie". The real reason ...

I was almost fired 10 minutes ago. Let me preface this story by saying that I am working on a retainer for a small marketing company with 4 employees. They are great guys, and I get along with them really ...

Freshly showered, it’s time to pick out my wardrobe. I put on my finest polo shirt and my tightest jeans. Pomade in the hair, extra squirt of cologne and I’m looking good. I give myself a final ...

Does turkey really have anything to do with the success of Thanksgiving? My vote is no. In fact, I find the entire turkey component of Thanksgiving to be completely arbitrary. In it's original form, Thanksgiving was held by Pilgrims to celebrate ...

From Wikipedia: Moore's law is the empirical observation that at our rate of technological development, the complexity of an integrated circuit, with respect to minimum component cost will double in about 24 months. This is something I learned in computer science classes, ...

I watched a news story last night on Fox 9 news, exposing underage drinking on the Gophers hockey team. It was so friggin stupid. I decided to write something to them, but I figured they were already getting ...

Do you recall the movie "The Net" starring Sandra Bullock? Remember how crazy it was to have a movie about this big unkown we call "the net". Everything seemed so new and mysterious. Try watching that movie ...

I think that the ethnicity that provides aspiring actors with the least opportunity for success would be Somali. Why, you ask? Well, that’s simple; there are very few roles in American cinema that provide opportunities for Somali ...

From crack to cigarettes, heroin to Hershey kisses, gambling to “girl on girl” action, vices to video games and many stops in between, addictions are as American as apple pie and NASCAR. With the invention of the Internet, newsgroups, and ...

In the country of Lebanon, 23 years ago to this day, the world changed for the better. On February 24, 1982, Nora and Jerry gave birth to a son named "Skaff". When the doctor told them they needed ...