Anyone who’s driven a motor vehicle near a crowded metropolis knows this situation: someone makes a turn or drives past you and stares at you the whole time. Their blank face judging you, wondering why you are such an idiot, and thanking the stars above that they are not you. This is one of the most annoying, road rage inducing acts a driver can do. It offers a sense of superiority to the moving vehicle as they blankly, disapprovingly watch you as they pass. Continue reading
Month: February 2011
A Day of Love
After the hate of Super Bowl Sunday has faded, and the groundhog has squeezed his plump hindquarters out of his hole, and the winter doldrums reach their dour, gray peak, we find the sunny artifice of Valentine’s Day. The day when you feel bad for being single and having no one special to kiss, or the day when you don’t lavish enough attention on your special someone and either way end up feeling clumsy in your own heart. Continue reading
Super Bowl
Everyone is a critic on the day after the big game. Since every armchair quarterback saw the game, watching ever so closely so as to not miss a single commercial, halftime nipple slip, game-changing interception, replay of the Leon Lett fiasco or a classic Deion Sanders neon suit shot. Continue reading
When I grow up…
I wanna be: a fireman, a baseball player, an astronaut, a fisherman, president or Hugh Hefner. Depending on your age, style, preference and skills, when you were asked that question, I’ll bet you had a different answer each time. I always thought I’d be good at anything. I thought I could do anything. I thought, I thought. I thought too much and probably didn’t DO enough. Sure, there were plenty of crap jobs creating a crap resume and ridiculous larks into fantasy about owning businesses or acting on the big screen. The reality never really sank in until recently that I have no idea what I’d like to do with my life. My passions include animals, movies, nature and sports. According to the movie, “El Secreto de sus ojos”, a man’s passion never changes. Those passions combined mean only one thing: training wild animals to play catch on an L.A. sound-stage. Unfortunately, that job was taken by that guy whose best friend is a bear or Steve Irwin, and my kneecap doesn’t equal either of those two’s eyelashes. How many people would like to donate their lives to animal safety or security? How many people are desperate to preserve nature? I imagine much less than those interested in Hollywood or professional sports. The point is: What can I do with my time? “It’s never too late for a second chance;” “Find your passion and pursue it;” “Just do it.” Thanks to those maxims, it is thought that anything you want is possible. For my sake, I hope it is. I’d love my dream to come true so I can be a positive influence saying things like: “I’m an example that anyone can accomplish anything.” Please, dream-board, give me the chance to save orphaned animals and play outside with them everyday so that I can go to the movies on weekends and watch the playoffs every year.