Recent Entries

• Exploring the Statute of Limitations

  July 31, 2006

  At the (sensible) urging of Bridget Jonesing, I’m going to pen another entry. That way, you can all resume being the glib, inappropriate, and raunchy people I’ve come to love.   One last bit about Dad, though. The memorial service and funeral were very touching. I was moved to te...

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• Goodbye, Dad– I Love You

  July 24, 2006

  My Dad passed away today. He was 77.   For the past several months, Dad had been battling one sort of ailment or another. He went into the hospital somewhere around the third week of March. Since that time, he’s been in and out of various hospitals and skilled nursing facilities throug...

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• The Secret Superpower of the Inebriated

  March 28, 2006

    So I don’t know if you noticed it or not, but I sounded exhausted in my entry on 11/8. I seemed to have glossed right over the better part of a wild weekend by simply saying, “Vegas was vegas.” I didn’t realize it until rereading the entry recently, but in retrospec...

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• “Whoa, that was weird…”

  March 13, 2006

  Once upon a time, a friend of mine and his wife were trying to get pregnant.   They tried and tried and tried. At first, they just stopped using birth control. When that didn’t work, they started tracking cycles and ovulation and made love standing on their heads. Then, they enlisted t...

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• San Diego: Heresy to the Gods of Football

  November 7, 2005

  Before I get to the meat of the entry:   Vegas was Vegas. I was there for roughly 36 hours. That just isn’t enough time. We managed to squeeze in some fun, but nothing out of the ordinary. Although Studio 54 in the MGM on the Saturday before Halloween was something special. I got my&he...

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• Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Before…

  October 26, 2005

  A few months ago, Mark mentioned something to me about flying out to San Diego to watch the Chiefs play the Chargers. It’s something that happens a lot in Kansas City . Seems like everyone I know has traveled out of town to watch the Chiefs play a division rival in hostile territory. By far...

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• How to Save Your Wedding Reception

  October 17, 2005

  I don’t even want to guess at the number of weddings and receptions I’ve attended over the past 15 years. We’ll just leave it at “a shitload.” More than enough. With each passing wedding, I become more and more cynical. Not because of that whole “I’ll nev...

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• What I Did on my Summer Vacation

  October 11, 2005

  First, let me clear up a few things.   I have not gone “favorites-only.” Nor have I made my diary visible to OD Plus members only. The front door is just as wide open as it always has been. I just haven’t been writing.   For a while there was concern that I was being&h...

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• Goodbye, Rube.

  February 20, 2005

  ASPEN, Colo. - Hunter S. Thompson, the hard-living writer who inserted himself into his accounts of America's underbelly and popularized a first-person form of journalism in books such as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," has committed suicide. Thompson was found dead Sunday in his Aspen-area hom...

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