So, my special lady (which I say with all the fervor of a stank, dance-fighting greaser with a 4th grade sensibility but the know-how to build a chopper - with my alcoholic father who smells like Tom Waits’ voice sounds - that will take me as far as Flagstaff, where I subsequently find myself, get [...]

Once upon a time, I had a queen-sized bed. It belies my current sleeping arrangement. I was the only “only child” I knew who had a bunk bed with an imaginary spaceship captain named Lobo occupying the lower bunk. I had a twin in college - which is deceiving because the word “twin” leads you [...]

Written by a retainer, who not only failed to engage in battle but was also the guy you’d hang out with to make yourself look better by comparison (like Boner from Growing Pains or the kid in your 7th grade English class who smelled like croutons and Civil War photography), Hagakure: The Book of the [...]