Category: Random

  • Writing is like asking a girl out

    [NOTE: this blog post is an assignment for my online Grammar 101 course]

    Writing is like asking a girl out

    There are many parallels to draw between writing and asking a girl out. Actually not really, but since I couldn’t think of what to compare it to, I just took the first thing that came to mind. Let’s see how I can forcefully marry the two activities together.
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  • Starker (this post contains a lot of Wikipedia links)

    Remember that bar, Overtime? The beer which served this overpriced, German-branded, beer called ‘Starker’?
    I recently discovered that it wasn’t so German after all.

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  • Life Tax

    Sometimes life hits you hard.
    Then you take the blow like Dorothy Gale.
    And fly away.
    End up somewhere magical.
    Or plummet to the ground.
    RIP in peace old wheels and savings.
    It’s time to rebuild.