old man with poems haiku? haiku? haiku? gesundheit -G (imbibing pages "writing and enjoying haiku" so sue me)

Next to himself, Tookie's worst enemy was his supporters. All we ever heard, as if on an endless loop, were the ludicrous arguments "nominated five times for the Nobel Peace Prize" and "he wrote children's books." The bizarre notion that writing children's books should exonerate someone from murder would be laughable if so many people hadn't just tried it. I hear Dr. Suess wasn't such a lovable fellow. I wonder what he'd have done knowing writing children's books was considered a get off ...

"Larry the Cable Guy" has written his first book, titled after his popular catchphrase, Git-R-Done! It's so dirty I can't review it -- not properly, anyway. I never realized how perverse Larry is. I've seen the Blue Collar Comedy Tour movie and watched his Tonight Show appearances. Either he cleans it up a whole lot for the visual media or I just wasn't paying that much attention. The book started well enough. I was laughing all over the place, so much so that I called my mother to ...

So, last Friday I'm puttering around my living room at nearly 8 o'clock at night when I'm practically thrown to the ground by loud BUM-PA-PA-POW BUM BUM BUM-PA-PA-POW hip-hop reverberations followed by muffled but decidedly evangelic tinged exhortations being shouted through a P.A. system. It cycled through quieting down a little, then getting dramatically louder. My immediate thought was a street preacher with a truck had invaded my neighborhood. I'd seen such a display once in my hometown ...

In Las Vegas, Nevada, the Clark County School District has a little problem: shivering students. Kids at dozens of schools have been forced to attend classes wearing scarfs, gloves, and heavy jackets. It seems the schools have older equipment that requires maintenance workers to physically start it by hand. Big deal, right? Start the heaters, warm up the kids. No problem. Wrong! First we must run the bureaucratic obstacle course! Here are some of the excuses and my responses: * T...

For those of you who didn't read my previous article about Kenneth "Jody" Thompson (and for the nearly 200 of you who did, but couldn't be bothered to comment -- A POX ON YOUR HOUSES, GOOD SIRS! ), here's the skinny: Jody Thompson got sent to prison for pulling stickups. He told people he didn't want to rob them but had to because his (non-existent) kid had cancer. Earlier this year he escaped, beelined for Vegas, and started holding people up again. A couple days after being featured on ...

While I'm ragging on Las Vegas TV news outlets... This past week saw fugitive Pahrump, NV native Jody Thompson captured by police while he cowered in an elderly couple's closet (or laid on the kitchen floor with his hands on his head begging 911 to tell the cops not to kill him, depending on what you listen to or read). This guy got sent to prison for pulling stickups and telling people he didn't want to rob them but had to because his (non-existent) kid had cancer. Earlier this year he...

Las Vegas television is obsessed with Siegfried and Roy. More than 2 years after their show closed because the tiger named Montecore gored Roy, we're treated to weekly updates on the former magicians. Sometimes it seems like they do a Breaking News alert every time Roy leaves the mansion. It's driving me crazy. I don't care! Leave me alone! No-one but Siegfried cares about Roy and we're not to sure about his commitment, publicity machine not withstanding. (Weren't these two rumored to be...

[Here's the deal, when one of my articles is marked "adult content" it sinks like a stone. It apparently doesn't show up in the forums and only registered users over a certain age can see it. Search engines don't see it. It won't get any referral traffic. It sucks. So, I cut the four paragraphs in the middle of this article that caused me to mark it adult content and am reposting it. If you want to see what got cut, open a free account, be over 16, and click here for the original version. No...

While trying to research an article, I happened upon an archive of JoeUser back when it was solely Brad's blog. Back around October of 2002 the issues included home movies on a PC, the future of Saddam Hussein and militant Islam, information gods v. mere mortals, and which trees to plant for privacy. I doubt taking this look back at where JoeUser came from will give any indication of where it is going, but it sure is interesting.

At first I couldn't see what the authors of this article had to complain about. Then I looked closer at the pictures. OMG! What a sneaky trick! WASHINGTON, D.C. Presidential Hall Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building Nov. 22, 1:11 p.m. EST Even hardened beltway insiders were shocked speechless when President Bush turned the annual pardoning of the "National Thanksgiving Turkey" into a political stunt. "There were children there!" said one west winger who demanded anonym...

At first I couldn't see what the authors of this article had to complain about. Then I looked closer at the pictures. OMG! What a sneaky trick! WASHINGTON, D.C. Presidential Hall Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building Nov. 22, 1:11 p.m. EST Even hardened beltway insiders were shocked speechless when President Bush turned the annual pardoning of the "National Thanksgiving Turkey" into a political stunt. "There were children there!" said one west winger who demanded anonym...