Author Archives: stevenvinson

Here’s a funny joke we heard the other night at Crackers. It’s the worst when you’ve been drinking and you fall asleep on the sofa and you wake up there the next day.  Fully clothed.  You know the feeling.  Sunlight … Continue reading →

Put your personal feelings about Josh Groban aside for a moment.  That song about someone raising someone else up is great. It’s a love song, actually.  A love song to you.  Every one of your friends is more because of … Continue reading →

Moisturizer.  Use it.  It works. Our friend Larry is a good ole boy from Iowa.  Raised on a farm and has plenty of farm in him.  His haircut is farm. His mustache is farm.  He rides his bicycle 80 miles … Continue reading →

I sat down on the wet, hard cement.  The place smelled of chlorine and piss.  How long would I have to choke back the tears before this would all be over?  The damn string broke on my swim trunks.  I … Continue reading →

My new obsession is Battle: Los Angeles. It’s Independence Day meets Blackhawk Down. Act I: Marine Staff Sergeant… “My men should have lived. I should have died in the sand.  I’m going to retire and stew in my regret.”  Old … Continue reading →

Travelling Jesus Look at him.  Look at that face.  Not approving.  But not judging. But He still has His beads.  Not only has He forgiven you, but He is giving a subtle nod to the good time you had last … Continue reading →

For those of you who missed it, I was a suspect in an alleged kidnapping yesterday.  Actually, there was no kidnapping.  And I’m not even sure it was alleged.  I was briefly suspected though, of trying to kidnap Simone.  I … Continue reading →

Let’s be honest.  After my 90 day run of 90 posts in 90 days, I will not worry about “catching up”.  If I miss 2 days as I did this weekend, I will simply write on the third.  For it … Continue reading →

1 play the [fill in the blank] card 2 create straw men 3 pick off the weakest arguments; ignore the strong ones 4 generalize 5 create guilt by association

1. Carrots are the roots of young Queen Anne’s lace. 2. Some people ski without an ACL. 3. The people of Easter Island cut down all of their trees. Rats ate all the seeds. Without trees, they couldn’t make canoes. … Continue reading →