Category Archives: Current Events

Pennsylvania or Bust and The Shadow Art Fair

Posted on June 22, 2011 by You Monsters Are People

Are you planning a summer vacation this year?  Would you like to be my friend?  Are you a creepy hobo-drifter?  Are you currently residing in, or near, the state that Jim Harrison once called a partially paved atrocity? If you … Continue reading →

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Grim Ruminant Mammals and Lawn Care

Posted on June 1, 2011 by You Monsters Are People

Like many American fathers, mine always took a special pride in the appearance of his yard.  Quite a few dads measure a large portion of their worth by the quality of their lawn.  Because of my father, I could probably … Continue reading →

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The Photochromic Plague: A Plea for Sanity

Posted on May 16, 2011 by You Monsters Are People

Transition, or photochromic, lenses seem to be custom made to make every person look sketchy.  You can make dozens of good cases for wearing photochromic lenses.  Since they alleviate the need for sunglasses, they save you both money and space … Continue reading →

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Ingesting Gum and the Sleepiest Moment of Anyone’s Life

Posted on May 8, 2011 by You Monsters Are People

For whatever reason, having an exceptionally mature woman’s breasts draped across my arm makes me indescribably, and unexplainably, sleepy.  I have no idea why this phenomenon occurs, but it happened all of the time in high school.  Mrs. Kendall would … Continue reading →

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Carnal Transmissions with Unlimited Nights and Weekends

Posted on April 25, 2011 by You Monsters Are People

Today someone at work got a text message, checked their phone and became alarmed enough to hide it from me while also apologizing. While I did not see the text, I imagined the worst and most heinously graphic photograph of … Continue reading →

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Being Born in the Future and the Deliciousness of Tomorrow’s Hotdog

Posted on March 28, 2011 by You Monsters Are People

I spent the better part of today comparing different colored metallic foil fringe and tinsel curtains, because I live the sort of life where stuff like that frequently comes into play. However, thirty-six hours earlier, I was at a wedding … Continue reading →

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The New American Pastime: Chrono Gallivanting

Posted on March 11, 2011 by You Monsters Are People

I’ve been thinking a lot about time travel lately and wondering why that’s not the next big technology we’re working on. I don’t need my computer to be any smaller or flatter than it currently is and we already have … Continue reading →

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An Unusual Flattering Remark on my Posterior

Posted on March 7, 2011 by You Monsters Are People

I recently set up my, long idle, twitter account in order to prostitute this blog more effectively.  I’m not sure how I feel about a medium that only gives you one-hundred and forty characters to explain a concept though.  I … Continue reading →

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This is How we Use Limitless Information

Posted on February 22, 2011 by You Monsters Are People

I was watching a phenomenal documentary on the manufacturing and consumption of hotdogs when I had a mild epiphany.  With the help of others, we’ve built cookie cutter personas for ourselves and allowed even the most interesting of us to … Continue reading →

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Dog Faces and the Long Process of Dotage

Posted on December 8, 2010 by You Monsters Are People

People seem to think that getting old happens overnight but aging is a long arduous process.  You don’t suddenly wake up one morning with this uncontrollable desire to start dolling out hard candies like some sort of juicy mouthed, high … Continue reading →

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