By Brian Thompson
I. The Setup
History is littered with the memories of those who made the unenviable journey from high respectability to high insanity. Consider Prince, for example. In the â80s, he had us all by the dancing shoes. Sure, the purple thing was a little over the top, but thatâs what being a rock star is all about. Read more »
Filed in Amateur Scientist | December 4, 2008
By Brian Thompson
I. The Setup
I apologize if Iâm a bit rambly this week, but my headâs still spinning from last night. And no, thatâs no metaphor. In addition to celebrating Barack Obamaâs victory with wine, whiskey, and oral sex, I also broke out the old Necronomicon and summoned a few demonsâyou know, to liven up the party. Read more »
Filed in Amateur Scientist | November 6, 2008
By Brian Thompson
I. The Setup
I donât really know how it happened, but I got a new puppy. Okay, thatâs not quite true. Iâm fairly clear on how it happened. I browsed PetFinder.com until I found a beagle with a sob story. Mine was rescued from a Dumpster heâd been abandoned in for several days. He had patches of missing fur from the sores he suffered as he wandered around with his siblings nibbling on garbage. And his ears are about three times the size of his whole head. So I contacted the rescue agency (which turned out to be a couple of older hippies with a house full of cages and fur somewhere in the kind of backwoods country where âtruck hitting telephone poleâ is the number one fatality) and asked for an application. Read more »
Filed in Amateur Scientist | October 30, 2008