Some mornings are more weird than others. This from a random IM conversation as I was trying to get my day started this morning: [08:47] Sparks: The Silver Surfer / Fantastic Four preview rocked[08:48] Code Monkey: yeah man – that is going to be cool as hell[08:49] Sparks: Wonder what Galactus will look like[08:49] Code […]
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Archive | February, 2007
What would YOU do?
February 22, 2007 
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It’s a horrible tune that commercial television seared into my consciousness as a young teen back in the 1980’s. A freaking square of chocolate covered vanilla ice cream wrapped in silver foil with a polar bear on it. The commercial would come on and you’d see seemingly normal people doing outrageous things for this frozen […]
Continue readingMy Two Lives
February 14, 2007 2 Comments
Happy Manufactured Spend-Your-Money Day, people… Let me spend a moment telling you about my two lives. The absolute best thing I did when I split with the ex was to insist on split custody. My two boys and I are closer now that we have ever been. Every moment I have with them now is […]
Continue readingOpen Your Eyes and Be Amazed
February 5, 2007 0 Comments
So I’m driving home from work today. It had been a rather stressful day at work – as Monday’s usually are. I was tired, and more than a little irritated because I knew I couldn’t just go home. I had to go to my mom’s house because my sister-in-law’s brother was going to detail my […]
Continue readingMisadventures of Fat Ernie Chapter 6
February 5, 2007 2 Comments
Ernie Gets Mad By Chris Parker “What?” asked the creature, perhaps taking a moment of umbrage at Ernie’s slack-jawed reaction to its presence to breathe. Through nictitating membranes in its eyes. No. No, days of driving over dead bodies… that was weird. Days of making his own food in restaurants filled with the bodies of […]
Continue readingMisadventures of Fat Ernie Chapter 5
February 2, 2007 3 Comments
Another Survivor by Ron Sparks For some reason, Ernie had always expected Texas to be, well, bigger. In every way. The cars he passed on the road were normal cars. The dead people he squished were normal-sized. The buildings looked normal. Of course, they didn’t have Bingo Burger in Texas, apparently. That diminished the Lone […]
Continue readingMisadventures of Fat Ernie Chapter 4
February 2, 2007 3 Comments
The Great Western Exodus by Chris Parker You wouldn’t call Ernie’s Great Western Exodus hard, exactly. You might call it a pain in the ass. If you were alive. But you’re not. Only Ernie is alive. He definitely found it a pain in the ass, especially after having driven over several thousand people (he’d lost […]
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The Binary Biker 