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Category Archives: Personal
REO Speedwagon’s Hi Infidelity
This is my favorite rock album. It came out in the fall of 1980. I never bought it but friends had it and sometimes on a Saturday night at Pacific Union College, we’d put it on, turn out the lights, … Continue reading
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My Favorite Drugs
I’ve never touched illegal drugs nor had more than a few mouthfuls of beer and wine, but over the past year, I’ve received great benefit from listening to 12-step lectures for drug and alcohol addicts. I feel like I have … Continue reading
KFI’s Top 30
In ninth grade, I went to my first non-Adventist school — Forest Lake Christian School. It was a tough year for me (1980-1981) as my family transitioned out of the Seventh-Day Adventist church and my dad formed Good News Unlimited. … Continue reading
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What’s It Like To Become Irrelevant In Your 40s?
From July of 1997 to October of 2007, I averaged over 10,000 online readers a day. Today I average about 1/20th of that. This website, for instance, has about a fourth of the readership it averaged from 2001-2007. What does … Continue reading
Good Thing I Never Touched The Grog
My life is not exciting right now. I’m working, paying my bills. I went to a singles mixer last week and chatted up about 20 birds. None of the pretty ones had any interest in me, the ugly ones were … Continue reading
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The Hot Sikh
So I was talking to this hot Sikh at yoga and as I became comfortable, I returned to my normal cutting self, and she told me to watch it or I’d lose “my conversation privileges.” How low have I fallen … Continue reading
Resolving Your Parental Issues
Most of the people around us see us more clearly than we do. As we get older, we might find it easier to let go of the barriers we keep up against admitting the truth, and seek help. Most everything … Continue reading
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Downtown LA Monthly Art Walk
Art Walk in downtown Los Angeles is amazing. I didn’t expect the crowd to be so young, average age was under 30. Who knew there were so many kids were art aficionados. I asked the cops if all the kids … Continue reading
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Why Do Russian Women Have Such Terrible Reputations?
I hit my first match.com event tonight. The women in their 20s had little interest in talking to me. Others were put off by my talking right off about my emotional addictions. At the end of the night, I met … Continue reading
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If You Look Up ‘Foupe’ In The Dictionary, You’ll See My Example
I just Googled the word “foupe” and the first result was for wordnik.com and they quoted an example from this blog: Luke: “I think that one of the biggest, if not the biggest foupe, you can make in educated society … Continue reading