Category: Rants
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3 Ways to Deal with Annoying Players in Online Poker Chat
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Read more: 3 Ways to Deal with Annoying Players in Online Poker ChatFrom the play money games to nosebleeds, online poker is filled with jerks who will use chat to demean other players and celebrate their own superiority, real or imagined. (It’s almost always imagined).
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Americana
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Read more: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of AmericanaA few years ago I took a nice road trip, a 2,000 mile journey through Wyoming, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska. According to the world of Matt Cale there is no bad Americana, but I beg to differ
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Falling Down: Spending 7 Months in Prison Edition
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Read more: Falling Down: Spending 7 Months in Prison EditionEditor’s Note: Here is an email that I got from one of our writers. I was pretty sure he was dead, since I hadn’t heard from him in 7 months. Anyway, enjoy, and welcome back, Paul.
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The Top 10 Most Outrageous YouTube Eating Channels
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Read more: The Top 10 Most Outrageous YouTube Eating ChannelsEDITOR’S NOTE: Since the original Top 10 list is over four years old, some things have changed. Things like some of these brave warriors have given up this dangerous folly. Have no fear, however, fresh troops are on the job, and here is an updated Top Ten List of the most outrageous YouTube Eating Channels.…
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Five Facts About Tornadoes You Didn’t Know
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Read more: Five Facts About Tornadoes You Didn’t KnowYou never hear any positive stories about tornadoes. Why is it nobody has anything nice to say about them? Why does humanity harbor so much fear and hate for these gentle giants? It’s not like we were born hating tornadoes. No baby busts out the belly being a bigoted funnel-fearing Freddy. Chances are, you learned…
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Meth Stories: “Yeah Chris, I’m Not Going To Make It In Today.”
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Read more: Meth Stories: “Yeah Chris, I’m Not Going To Make It In Today.”Brutal honesty. In 2005 I endured the ultimate tweaker nadir – I got arrested for possession with intent to distribute, and carrying weapons.
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Being Henry: I Love Henry Rollins
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Read more: Being Henry: I Love Henry RollinsAnyway. The first time I fell in love with Henry Rollins was way back in the nineties. He appeared in these short spoken word videos on MTV. You see, kids, back in prehistory, MTV broadcast music videos.
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The Bostrom Glitch: Four Movies That Question Reality
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Read more: The Bostrom Glitch: Four Movies That Question RealityIt sometimes happens that I wake up very early in the morning. I then get up, make coffee and sit on my couch, watching how the world outside slowly wakes up…I start to wonder if this world is actually real.
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Sawing Pigs Apart
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Read more: Sawing Pigs ApartThere’s no way that accepting a job on the Ham Line at Tyson’s Meats reports a life of success.
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Top Gun: Maverick -or- Hello Aeroplane
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Read more: Top Gun: Maverick -or- Hello AeroplaneHello, Aeroplane “Where am I?” “Earth.” Like Tom Cruise doesn’t know that. He just fell out of the sky, after pushing a trillion-dollar concept plane beyond its limits. That limit being Mach 10. After treating us to near-as-makes-no-difference exactly the same opening sequence as the legendary 1986 classic.