Granted, morality is not always black and white, and plenty of people prefer to not “conform” to society’s standards and expectations. However, being a non-conformist does not absolve a person from being a “decent” human being.
Like many of my fellow Gen X’ers, I once watched the 1996 film “Swingers,” starring Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau, with religious fervor.
About a month ago, my son officially moved to Rhode Island to attend the Providence Fire Academy, making it the first time in the 24 years that my wife and I have been together that we don’t have a child living in the house with us.
For the uninitiated, the premise of this dazzling 2019 short film is deceptively simple: a bunch of kittens dressed in Christmas sweaters and scintillating cocktail outfits are making quite merry at a gathering in an affluent, modernly-decorated loft.
As many of us have already started mentally circling the wagons, waiting to attack Thursday’s Thanksgiving plate with a ferocity borne only from our own gluttony, the game of asking people about their favorite Thanksgiving dish has begun.
One of the most loathsome forms of the human species—in my estimation, at least—is the craven Keyboard Warrior, and any person who has ever surfed around on social media or perused a comments section knows exactly who I am talking about.
So imagine my surprise when I actually did publish a book of stories in 2002, albeit with a small press, and realized there were more people in the bathroom stalls at the bookstores than there were sitting in the audience to hear me read from my book.
I’ve never been in the habit of endorsing specific candidates, nor am I deluded into believing that my endorsement is going to carry any clout. However, as a resident of Ward 6 in Manchester, I strongly believe there is only one right choice for the Alderman position on Tuesday, Nov. 4.
My wife and I went out for drinks with some friends at Chelbys last Saturday night. As our tab grew in girth, Liz looked at me across the table and grinned. “Are we going to have band practice when we get home?” she asked.
It is also an irrefutable fact that the serial killer Ed Gein was one of the worst human beings to ever inhabit this planet, which makes him juicy content for “American Horror Story” creator, writer and producer Ryan Murphy’s series “Monster,” which has featured fictionalized tales of some of the most demented and depraved killers in the annals of American crime.
Did I mention Chelbys is closed for renovations?
On Sunday, when it was finalized that the Red Sox would be playing the New York Yankees in a three-game AL Wild Card series this week, I put on my game face, and the game face will remain plastered to my mug until Thursday, at the latest.
Personally, I’ve never been a big fan of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, but that is “for me to poop on,” not the government to dictate.
We walked into the gymnasium, grabbed our ballots, dodged a piece of tumbleweed, and voted in less than five minutes. This begs the question: Where was everyone?
Social media was aflame this week with sanctimonious posts from both sides of the political spectrum.
My wife was communicating with angels.
There is a John Prine song titled “Summer’s End” that I listened to repeatedly this past Labor Day weekend. It’s a beautiful, haunting song, and also depressing as hell. But when I’m looking to wallow in self-pity, depressing songs are my magic elixir.
Here is a basic truism that I’m guessing anyone who has ever been married to another human being already knows: Marriage is hard.
We were somewhere in Oklahoma in a cheap motel off I-40 in the middle of nowhere, the type of nowhere place that most people from the East Coast don’t know about unless they’ve been to nowhere.
In case you missed it, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the Comedy Central cartoon television show “South Park,” have opened up with both barrels parodying the Trump Administration and the MAGA movement in the first two episodes of Season 27.