On The Asterisk (I’m 42 Today)
I’m 42 today. Not celebrating until the weekend because I’m broke, but posting this because I have thoughts. In Douglas Adams’ “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe” there is a long-running bit of commentary/joke about how the answer to “Ultimate Question…
Where Do We Go From Here Now That All of the Children Are Growing Up?
American English has this term called the “coming-to-Jesus meeting” or “moment” in which an individual who is perceived to be on “the wrong path” is shown the error of their ways in a “fire and brimstone” manner in hopes those…
If I Get My Coat I’ll Get a Beating
There’s this story circulating around Twitter and Reddit about “Bean Dad,” the parent who wouldn’t help his nine year old daughter cook beans on the stove and expected her to know how. It’s a whole thing. A lot of comments…
Trying to Be Thankful During the End of the World
Thursday, November 26th, marks some special holidays for Americans. There’s National Cake Day, which is where we sing that one DNCE song. There’s National Day of Mourning, which is kind of a big deal if you or a loved one…
Oh No I’m Old! State of The Blog and Moving Forward
On August 14th, 1982, a teenager went into a small theater to watch The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, because this was the ’80s and what else were people going to watch? Apparently this woman laughed so hard she started…
I Am Not Well
There are people in this world that don’t have mental illness, which is weird to me. People who are normal and whose mind works properly, who aren’t burdened with knowing that when eugenics eventually gets adopted and only nonbroken people…
I Was Baptized When I Was 9. I’ve Questioned God Ever Since.
Few events in my young life showed the depths of the emotional abuse my stepfather inflicted upon me as the night after I was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I grew up in an interesting…
In High School Someone Was Arrested For Planning a Shooting. In the Aftermath, Everyone Thought I’d Be the Next Assailant
Wikipedia states that between the year 2000 and the year 2001 there were 11 school shootings in the US. There could have been 12; several of my classmates were found to be on a hit list by a student who…
The Niche of Yourock.fyi (Or, How to Poorly Monetize Myself)
There is a saying among those who want to blog for fame and fortune: you need to have a niche. This blog’s niche is me. I’m the niche. Allow me to explain. I started to use the internet in that…
An Open Apology to Someone I’ve Wronged
The last week has had me doing a lot of self-reflection, in no small part because of the changes happening in my life and in part because of some drastic family news. Sometimes, when one can’t act, it’s easy to…
