I once spent a month in a drug treatment facility down south. There were these two guys in there; coke fiends, violent guys. They'd both done pententiary bits and they lived by the jailhouse thug credo. But in this place here they were clean and by all outward appearances making a genuine effort to reform. Thing was these two guys were right out of their heads for Jesus. They talked about him all the time and were keen to mention the word rapture at least once during every conversation. They ... read more

I'm actually supposed to be blogging right now? A blogger blogging? It's a funny word. Certainly no one mistakes it for being a word that might even remotely suggest a productive or useful activity. It falls off the tongue with a phonetic frivolity that conjures up images of nose picking and chronic masturbation. Blogging. To blog. It really is just a stupid fucking word.
                                 
Yet look at me. Here I am, blogging away. Being a blogger.

I'll say this much: it'... read more