Category Archives: Utterly Unimportant

West Side Flame-Broiled Story

In-N-Out Burger. Friday night.  11:00 p.m. The whitest county in America. __________________________ JET SONG (or Why You Should Join Chorus): CLEARASIL:  Against the a-capella club, we need every man we got. AXE:  Tony don't belong no more. CLEARASIL:  Cut it, Axe-Body-Spray-Boy, I and Tony started the High School Choral Ensemble. AXE:  Well, he acts like he ...

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The Top 10 (Anti) Heroes of 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2010 will be revealed on September 23rd.  With the big extravaganza tribute show airing on Thanksgiving! Taking advantage of the potential boredom-crater posed by this gorgeous homage to humanity, Ryan Seacrest has agreed to produce a last-minute  TOP 10 (ANTI) HEROES OF 2010 TRIBUTE.* "What ...

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A Shiv and a Prayer

In the history of roommates (the baby Jesus in a barn full of animals; Cleopatra and her slave; Tony and Angela on Who's the Boss; Zach, Screech and Slater in a college dorm; the Clintons), I have had the worst. On the face of this earth. Bar none. In fact, it's a running joke in my family that ...

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Mrs. Man Vs. Wild

I just can't help it. I got Bear Grylls on the brain. You know.  He's that hot British star of Man vs. Wild. As well as one of the youngest - and hottest - to climb Everest. And THE youngest and hottest to climb Mt. Ama Dablam in the Himalayas, which Sr. Edmund Hillary ...

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Ringside: Me vs. La Nina

Two minutes until the big fight. The place is packed.  I see a couple of familiar faces.  They look a little blue. Pinched with cold, in fact.  And I'm reminded that all of my friends from the south and the mid-west and hell, the whole country, aren't even here to support me. Said that they were either ...

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Summer Solstice: Hells Yeah

At last!  My favorite day 'cause it's the longest of the year 'cause it's summer and it's warm and the sun stays out past curfew and I don my gauzy white fairy dress and weave hibiscus through my flowing locks, then me and the Chalupa, in his handspun frock of the finest eider-down, we dance in the misty light and I ladle mulled wine into ...

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The Pu-Pu Platter: Music Edition

You have been craving something fried.  Something that not only WON’T lower your cholesterol, but could very well lower your brain activity.  Something of questionable origins served in questionable establishments. I have been craving the same thing… THE PU-PU PLATTER.  I haven’t served up my tasty signature assortment of the trivial and tasteless in so long that I can hardly ...

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