College

Burger Time (OR: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The MIRVburger)

Here’s a secret to getting people to do things: offer them food. Not money, food. I don’t know why it is that people will do things for food that they won’t do for cash, but it works. People won’t help you move heavy furniture for less than fifty bucks, but they will do it for about five bucks worth of pizza and beer. It’s one of the mysteries of life. Continue reading →

The Tale of The Teenagers Who Don’t Read Because They Ain’t Nerds And Shit

“That’s why I think all kids should be put into cages until they turn 21,” Rico said, as we waited at the intersection for the light to turn green.

“Would this be in addition to your plan to forcibly sterilize everyone until they learn calculus?”

“No excuse not to learn calculus,” Rico said. “It was the most important class I ever took in college.”

“I never took calculus.”

“Really?”

“You were a bio-chem major. I was history.” I pointed out.

“And see how that worked out for you?” Rico smirked.

“Touche.” The light turned green, and we proceeded up the on-ramp and onto the freeway. “Let’s compromise. Everyone gets forcibly sterilized until they can pass a class on ethics and sex ed. No one gets let out of their cages until they graduate college or get a GED.”

“What, you want high school kids to read?” Rico asked sarcastically.

“Of course not,” I quipped back. “We don’t read. We ain’t nerds and shit.”

Continue reading →

The Tale of Grout and the Flaming Muleskin Cape

Call me Themocaw. This is my blog.

I’m mostly creating it to encourage me to write more. I’m an aspiring writer (that and two bucks will get you a hamburger in this town). So yeah. This is where I write.

Since this is the internets, and I am a nerd, I’m gonna start by talking about a very nerdy subject indeed: Dungeons and Dragons.

Continue reading →