Author Archives: Mark A.

Be forewarned: This post contains massive amounts of Chuck Norris. People with heart conditions, pregnant women, communist sympathizers, and anyone with AIDS should skip this post. Aside from complaining and sharing pornography the internet also posses the ability to catapult the most asinine of subjects into popularity. Case in point: Chuck Norris facts. Internet nerds […]

I’ve spent about four days at home since December 7th, which means I haven’t had the luxury my computer affords me during internet excursions, so I don’t have that many leftovers to serve. FYI: When hotels advertise high-speed internet they’re lying. I would characterize this connection as “high-speed” only if I were comparing it to […]

Having lived in Texas all my life I’ve been subjected to an abnormal amount of state patriotism. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Well, for starters we’re the only state in the Union which possesses the right to not only fly our state flag at the same height as the United States flag but also […]

As much as I love plain old digital photography, I think I actually like digitally manipulated photography even more. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, or even if you do, go here to see Fark’s year-end photoshop contest and you’ll see digitally manipulated creations such as this:Out of all the entries I […]

You know that scene at the beginning of “Throw Momma From the Train” where Billy Crystal is sitting at his typewriter and despite his every effort he remains unable to write a single line for his new book? He just keeps repeating “The night was”¦” over and over again until he suffers a mini-meltdown, and […]

Tomorrow I head back home to San Antonio, and I’m looking forward to returning to S.A. after a month long absence. Not that I don’t enjoy visiting family, but to paraphrase George Carlin, I miss my stuff. I’ve made a mental note of certain songs I’m not allowing myself to listen to while driving: “Ride […]

You know, I find it a bit frustrating that the only way I receive comments on the blog is if I write so angrily I mistake my own writing for Ann Coulter’s. I promise that in real-life I’m a fairly laid-back dude”¦well, ok, not in traffic but that doesn’t really count, now does it? So, […]

I’m celebrating my twenty-ninth birthday today and I’ve had roughly seventeen hours to experience life as a twenty-nine year old. I am not impressed. Let me clarify because I don’t want anyone to misunderstand me; I had a really great day today and I have a lot to be thankful for: I have a loving […]

In one of the last papers I wrote for grad school I examined the impact of blogs on the mainstream media, paying particular attention to blogs authored by embedded soldiers. I was particularly interested in the antagonistic relationship between traditionally trained journalists and bloggers, and the perception of truth as it applies to both of […]

While sitting on the couch surfing the internet on a laptop and languishing in my post-holiday session of binge-eating, and simultaneously enjoying a rerun of South Park, I began to notice an abnormal amount of commercials for “Bowflex.” I’d hate to think advertisers are taking advantage of the fact that most people eat during the […]