The sanctity of marriage

Last week North Carolina took a giant step back in denying same-sex couples the right to marry or enter into civil unions. Voters there cast their “yes” votes for a variety of reasons, but the most troubling to me was the notion that allowing gay and lesbian couples the right to get married would somehow [...]

Hey, Joe, whaddya know?

How to run for Congress, apparently. Yes, Samuel Wurzelbacher, who played the part of “Joe the Plumber” on the 2008 sitcom “The Presidential Election,” has filed papers to run as a Republican in Ohio’s Ninth Congressional District. In the interest of capitalizing on the “Name, followed by the definite article ‘the,’ followed by an occupation” [...]

Booooooooooo!

Suggestive Halloween costumes that may never see the light of day… 1. Sexy IRS agent. Spoiler alert…you’re gonna get screwed! 2. Naughty Wet Nurse. Not as fun as it sounds. 3. Oedipus Rex. Complete with temporary “I Heart Mom” tattoo, “MILF Hunter” T-shirt and Jules’ “Bad Motherf—er” wallet from Pulp Fiction. “Hey, Josephus!” 4. Hunky [...]

Performance anxiety…

Thursday night I got up on a stage for the first time in years. It wasn’t great, but it didn’t suck and I was invited back to sing with Swingstreet, the group that so graciously allowed me to crash the stage tonight during the pre-Festival of the Horse activities in downtown Georgetown. Truly, it was [...]

No lead in my pencil

In an attempt to bitchslap myself back to life, literarily speaking, I’m going to lay bare my insecurities and deficiencies as a writer. At this moment I am experiencing what we in the writing biz call “writer’s block.” It’s like performance anxiety, only there’s no woman sitting next to you telling you that “it happens [...]

Let’s talk about sex

It’s gold nuggets like this that remind me why I love NPR News. Scientists at the University of Indiana have determined that having sex is what keeps us an evolutionary step ahead of those repressed, puritanical prudes that reproduce asexually. I’m looking at you, liverworts! The study postulates that “parasites, including bacteria and viruses, are [...]

Nothing to see here

If you notice things changing here, I’m just experimenting with different themes. These aren’t the droids you’re looking for. Move along.

Fiddle-dee-dee

This summer marks the fifteenth anniversary of my association with Morehead Theatre Guild’s production of Fiddler on the Roof. I have never forgotten the experience, but I had lost track of the years until the recent addition of a Facebook friend who had been in the cast, too. For me the experience was significant because [...]

To the [insert name of high school here] Class of 2011

I was going to write about the practice at Scott County High School, and other high schools, of awarding a bajillion valedictorian honors to its graduating seniors, but I think I can sum up my thoughts on the matter pretty succinctly: SCHS please grow a pair. This is not T-ball where we don’t keep score [...]

Late breaking news

This just in, racing canceled today at York racecourse in England. On the plus side, racing from York has been moved to Sargent Downs. The course looks nothing like York, but racetrack officials hope fans will be polite enough not to point out the difference.