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Heart And Soul

I finally got a GPS Here’s a short script I wrote based on events from this morning. This represents a typical morning after I spend the night at my girlfriend’s place. Benny is feverishly cleaning and making the bed while Girlfriend is in the shower.                GIRLFRIEND      (loudly) Can you turn on the coffee machine?                BENNY      (loudly) […]

The One Thing

  The French term “Mardis Gras” translated into English is “Fat Tuesday”. I don’t care much for the French, and I certainly don’t like being fat. That leads me to the one thing I’m giving up for Lent – carbs. As a Catholic, I’m supposed to give up meat on Ash Wednesday and Fridays. I’ve spoken to […]

Time In A Bottle

This world lost a special person yesterday. Our friend, Jo B, lost her nearly 2-year battle with cancer in the early hours of Sunday morning. Jo was one of those rare people you meet in life that never had a bad thing to say about anyone. And no one ever had a bad thing to […]

If The Phone Doesn’t Ring, It’s Me

I got a new a new cell phone tonight. You know, one of those PDA/smartphones that will allow me to receive emails and make posts to the SOB from almost anywhere. The only bad thing is my new plan requires me to change my telephone number. But instead of receiving a message that states my number is no longer in service, […]

Fight The Power

The New Fashion Rage in Mug Shots Surprisingly, I got a bit of good news today from my doctor – no more crutches. She told me to wear the AirCast boot for another three weeks, but that beats any alternative. “Just don’t do anything stupid like go the gym and run on it,” she told me. “That […]

Dumb

What a whirlwind 3-day weekend… Friday night I went to Kansas City for Jo’s Friday After Thanksgiving Party.  I came back on Saturday night to spend Valentine’s Day with my girlfriend. Sunday I watched the Daytona 500 at BWW. And on Monday, which was supposed to be my day off, I made some extra cabbage building a website. Thankfully, I had to […]

Video Killed The Radio Star

Bless her little heart I just looked at my X-rays, and when my doctor gets the results from the radiologist, I’m going to be so fucked. In fact, I’m going to be so fucked that Tom d G is going to have to push me around in a wheelchair. That’s it – I’m going to keep weight […]