Anyone who watches TV with my Ma is more likely to kill her than if they weren't watching TV. The reason for this is because my Ma constantly talks, riffs, jokes, and comments on whatever is on the screen. And the worst part is, over the years, I've started to develop this habit too. Quiet ...
Alright, to tell this story, and all that happened Saturday night, I have to back up a couple of weeks. If ya didn't already know, I am an artist, and over the summer I have been working on a couple of big projects. They are wood cutouts of cartoon characters of my own design, something ...
The question I get most frequently about my work with the paper is, are those Magic Mike stories really true? And the answer is yes, all of them are 100% true. But still, people have trouble believing that, I don't know if these situations are specifically unique to my family because we are ...
My Ma has carried a purse for as long as I can remember, and all that time, her purse has been a thing of legend. Just about anything could be inside it. I often joke that I once saw her take a potted plant out of it, but that's not far off. First of all, the thing is huge. My Ma has gone ...
My dad goes to power shows, and one of his absolute favorite parts is the ropemakers. My father could watch a rope being made for hours. And once, when I was but a boy, my father got it in his head that he too could make a rope. This is that story. I don't remember my father making the ...
It is extremely apparent that one of the things that I inherited from my parents is the predilection to go in waves of things. Today I'm all about this over here, and next week I'm all about that over there, it comes, it goes, it happens. So, about a month or two ago late at night, half ...
Well, here it is, the 50th Magic Mike column. Fifty stories, fifty rants, fifty late nights, thousands of words, one book, and one award. What started as a joke column name has turned into something astounding. Nothing I could have imagined. Writing this column is different than writing ...
The internet is truly an amazing, marvelous, strange thing. The capacities of the internet are boundless. Something the invention of the internet revolutionized was pen pals. Instead of throwing a stamp on your letter to your buddy in fluflekistan, ya just click a button. When used ...
So, I was walking into Monday's council meeting, and I saw a guy I know rocking a ridonculous shirt. I caught up with him and complimented his shirt, and we then talked about shirts, and somewhere along the way, he called me sexy. This was both an odd and delightful accolade that I'd never ...
Alright, last Sunday was Father's Day, so let me tell ya a story of me and The Old One. And yes, throughout this column I will be referring to my father as The Old One. This is for two reasons, one The Old One is a nickname given to my father years ago by my sister, out of affection or ...