Remember the day your teacher, parents, or grammar-snob friend told you that most of America uses the word hopefully wrong? They told you it does not mean “it is to be hoped that,” but rather, “while full of hope” — the adverb form. You looked at them, confused, and they met your gaze with a […]

My mother forwarded this to me. I am too lazy to check validity of it, but it did give me a good chuckle:
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Mouse Balls & Mouse Ball inspector..

I don’t know how they wrote this  with a straight face. This was a real memo sent out by IBM to its employees in all […]

“Those who gossip to you will gossip about you,” — Somebody.
Don’t learn the hard way.
My name is Stephen and I approve this message.

Breaking News: Series Of Concentric Circles Emanating From Glowing Red Dot

A little too short for a full Go-To Guy Column, but worth a blog entry I suppose:
 
Dear Stephen,
My girlfriend and I had the masturbation talk a while back, and she was actually shocked to learn that I masturbate. I told her that a man has needs, and since she and I only have sex once […]

Tonight was the spring semester’s first BYOC. And I had a coffee pot of bourbon and Coke. Granted, it was bottom-shelf bourbon, but it was tolerable.
Please come to BYOC. I will be there. I’ll even sign your issue of TW for you. The one with the horrible, horrible headline error on my Go-To Guy column.

It’s just funny… At least listen til the end of the chorus if you can.

I think the drummer is ok.

It’s a big awkward monster that smashes up Manhattan and drops down some mini spider-like monsters that run around the city and attack people. It’s filmed from the perspective of a group of people among the chaos — vague, weak romantic subplot ensues. Military attacks the shit out of it. The camera is shaky the […]

But I hate/suck at math, chemistry, science, physics, biology, etc. I also don’t really like literature. I like creative writing, I like to help people through writing, and I enjoy observational writing. So what is the deal?
Left-brainers are supposed to be logical, sequential, rational, analytical, objective, and so on. It’s those right-brained folks who […]