Category Archives: The Troubles

Okay, looks like I got a blog post come through so good. I recently changed from using a hosted blog (wordpress.com) to a self-hosted blog, and Facebook didn’t like that, apparently. So I am now using RSSGraffiti to get my … Continue reading →

I haven’t seen anything come through yet so I’m still testing.

Just moved my blog so I’m testing things.

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Matthew looks at me with his head cocked and dead serious and says, “How did you end up going to boarding school anyway, Dad?” A chill runs through me. I can still remember my Dad lunging at my older brother, … Continue reading →

Title says it all.

George Lucas said that when he was working on Star Wars he realized his original story was too big to fit in one movie, so he trimmed away what he could and sifted the story down to what became Star … Continue reading →

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2010/12/23/20101223massachusetts-pizza-prank-settlement-ON.html Reminds me of when my brother and I called in orders of pizza all over Anchorage back around ’75. I dunno how but the last guy we called called us back to confirm the order. Oh crap! We were … Continue reading →

The other day I sat on the couch in the living room and read some notes I’d jotted down for my promotional video. I’d just put some presents under the tree when two of my kids came home, rushed past … Continue reading →

According to Gavin Roy, who coined the term for me in Gloucester House, it defines being American because Americans always say “wow” and always eat hamburgers. The irony is that I wasn’t American at the time; I was Irish.