Friday, May 18, 2012

Skyline photo by Andy Snow

Fail Or Slop – The Unfortunate Fate Of The Sinclair Library

Fail Or Slop

The Unfortunate Fate Of The Sinclair Library             Sinclair Community College, whose sprawling campus takes up much of the Western portion of Downtown Dayton, began as a two roomed bookkeeping and mechanical drawing class located at the local YMCA in 1887. Many in the region have grown up with the legacy… (continue…)

The Power And Light Of Dow Thomas

Dow Thomas At Dirty Little Secret Sanitarium Show

A memorial for a Dayton icon, Dow Thomas.

Turn Of The Fraze

Filmstrip

The History Of A Dream The Australian Aborigines believe in two interconnected worlds. One is the world in which they live in; a world of the physical. The other is the world of Dreamtime, where their reality is created. In essence, the Dreamtime follows no linear rules of time; all times exists at once and… (continue…)

The Ice Of Wrath

Dear You Gallery

Premise of column…the abridged version: The theory behind this column is that, unlike most advice columns, I will not be dispensing advice. I have more issues than a magazine stand, so I feel that it would be rather disingenuous (as well as mildly dangerous) for me to offer anyone advice. So what I am doing… (continue…)

Dear You – Preamble, Procrastination And A Puppy

Dear You Gallery

The premise of this column is rather simple: while most advice columns have readers submit their most convoluted personal tragedies, some of which I find to be nothing more than the apocryphal rants of desperate attention-mongers, and then the advice columnist gushes with humanity and proceeds to tell this perfect stranger how to live their… (continue…)

The Adventures Of Vaccinium Person From Finland

Bury The N Word

Might As Well Rewrite The Title As Well…             To understand my position on this debate, I must first tell you a story. When my middle son was in 5th grade, he was harassed mercilessly by several black students in his class. Among those, there was one in particular that would constantly bother him, poking… (continue…)

The Theater Of The Strange

Upper Krust Poster

Comedian Dow Thomas Reminisces About The Dayton Comedy Scene 12/15/10             It’s very rare for someone to be able to meet any of the people that were instrumental in warping the needle on their moral compass. For example, in the future, the odds are astronomically against my kids ever meeting up with Snooki, the creator… (continue…)

True Man Group

Blue Man Group

The Blue Man Group Set To Perform At Schuster Center September 29th, 2010             I somehow became fascinated with the Blue Man Group quite some time ago. It is an easy thing to do, what with the level of musicianship, production values and sheer creativity of the troupe. What fascinated me most, however, is that… (continue…)

Top Ten Lessons I Learned The Hard Way

Woman With Frying Pan

There Is No Learning Curve In Life Don’t laugh when a woman asks you if you have ever thought about marrying them. Don’t eat any food that the aforementioned woman might serve to you if in fact you did laugh. Even though it is sometimes referred to as the “Muscle Of Love,” Ben-Gay should never… (continue…)

Top Ten Reasons Why I Am Not Working

Purrito

I Will Tell You Why I Procrastinate…Later  The Conan/Leno debacle has me all verklempt. At least Conan got custody of Andy Richter, so I can sleep a little better tonight. While doing research for an article, I accidentally misspelled Hadron Collider on Google Search and now my computer inundated with pop ups for gay porn.… (continue…)