Author: Mark Egge

Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest(2.5 of 5 stars) “Dead Man’s Chest” is not unlike a hundred other summer blockbuster sequels. The story goes something like this: the director and producer sit down and say “gee, we had so much fun making the last film, that maybe we should make another!” (Or was it […]

Quoting from the Warren Sentinel, June 30, 2006 (emphasis added): Warren [Air Force Base] now has a “Giant Voice” system that will be used to play reveille, retreat and taps. The sounding of these honors is a special part of military culture and all base personnel will be expected to follow tradition and protocol. Monday […]

Random life suggestion: if you’ve been drinking and you order a pizza, let me suggest you pass out after the pizza arrives, rather than before, to avoid a somewhat awkward situation for the pizza guy. =)

Hope, you may be appalled. And William, you may well approve. But: the floor in my room is littered with the brass casings of .22 shells. Or, the floor in my room near my window, that is. Yeah, I’m still a firm believer in gun control. Probably for reasons exactly such as this. But as […]

Mean …Senile people suck! Heh. Can I say that? No, I suppose not. I mean, she’s my grandmother and all. But it’s just that, well, she’s always been ornery (what a great English word!), but now… god help us, she’s senile AND ornery. My dad is seemingly a man of infinite resourcefulness, but she seems […]