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Quitting the Correcting Game

For most of my adult life I have had a pretty bad addiction, and I am trying to put it behind me. Whether it is in the context of a conversation in person, over the phone, or conducted over any of a number of digitial media, I have wasted too much time correcting people — it has to stop now.

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Excelling in Hate: Rush Limbaugh Does Not Want You to Help Haiti

In the days since Haiti was rocked with terrifying earthquakes that may have killed more than 100,000 people and destroyed buildings and infrastructure, support has been pouring in from all over the world.

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Prescription Heroin Chases the Dragon

The Swiss government is trying to fight heroin drug addiction by directly providing the horse to the addicts. 

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Cutting Caffeine and Going Grains

I love coffee.  Unfortunately, coffee no longer loves me.  The high acidity of coffee, along with the massive intake of caffeine throughout the work day, made my body revolt and forced me to recognize my acidy stomach and accelerated, exploding, heart rate were not beneficial to my long term well being in the galaxy.

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Trading Modems for Crack

A decade or so ago I was publishing  and am still publishing — GO INSIDE Magazine and one of my regular writers — we’ll call him “Alvin” — was incredibly dynamic and productive. He wrote well. He wrote five stories a week. He was awake and online at 4:00am and 8:00am and throughout the rest of the day. He’d call and leave long and intricate Voice Mail messages throughout the day.

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Neopets Anonymous

My name is Gordon Davidescu, and I am a frequent user of the Web site known as Neopets. I am twenty-seven years old, and I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan – though I’m going to be moving to the West Side of Seattle at the end of next month. (A crowd of similarly aged people reacts by saying, together, “Hello, Gordon!”)

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