Seven days ago, I gave up smoking;  POW!  Cold Turkey!  Twenty years at twenty a day +/-, is about 20,800 sticks of legal suicide I've managed to consume.  Again, give or take a carton.  With t

       This came as something of a revelation to me, but...Mexicans love accordions.

       Finally!  I went on my first legitimate vacation of the year.  I think the last one I can recall was somewhere in last September, when my Dad and I did a, "Fear and Loathing" in Colorado.  Fran

     Woke up this morning-which I find is always a good way to start any day-and had a hankerin' for a cup of terrible coffee.  So, I jump in 99's car and headed east.  I fixed the cup of mud and as I

       I'm not altogether convinced that it's comfortable in here, compared to out there.  I gave up hating the summer months, mostly because my pissing and moaning about the oppressive heat did nothi