Hello Friend,
You’re looking well. I see that like me you appreciate the finer things in life. Whether it’s an isolated tropical beach in the pacific where the Sun drops into the ocean just so, a deep tissue massage from a blind Thai girl trained from birth in the seven arts of easing troubled flesh, … [continue]
Though I am most commonly known as “the blog guy who won’t give up” or “the man without punctuation” a few unlucky citizens have had the misfortune of watching me interpret Shakespeare and less pretentious writers of the stage. A handful have survived to tell the tale, and among them I count many unbiased family members and lovers. I’ve … [continue]
Since turning thirty, I’ve been on a steady diet of a miracle food known as the “Tastykake Chocolate Jr.” and a TV show called “Californication”. [Obligatory Synopsis Warning] “Californication” is about a dysfunctional writer, Hank Moody, (played by David Duchovny) who moves to LA from the Big Apple, only to be estranged from his pseudo-wife, child and … [continue]
Finally it has become a real issue. I can still get away with ordering a “large coffee” at Starbuck’s without desecrating the Italian language. I rarely abbreviate words in the five or six text messages I write a month. I’m not particularly interested in how smart you are for knowing exactly when it became cool to switch from only buying … [continue]
Christmas Heaven/Christmas Hell, EARTH - Every Christmas we either enjoy or suffer through the same holiday music. Even those of us who exclusively utilize radio for “talk programming” are incapable of escaping the vicious cycle. Shopping malls, elevators, and convenience stores everywhere pump in the merry noise from the last burp of Thanksgiving to the anti-climax of December 26th. Unfortunately, few people seem to be willing to pass judgment on these tunes, or, better yet, cut some of them from yearly tradition…. [continue]
Before working in a cubicle this week, I had never even stepped inside one of these blissfully gray dead zones, but now that I have, I will never look at boring office work the same way again! These things are great!
If you thought you were dispassionate at the office before working in a cubicle, then you are living … [continue]
The Garden, EDEN - In a shocking development, religious leaders at St. Saint’s Seminary School have found that according to religion, religion is true. Organizer, Father Padre Père, long a believer in his own religion, expressed hope that the findings would finally put to rest the modern argument that religion is based on superstitious beliefs that would normally be really … [continue]
It doesn’t take much to anger the copyright Gods. Receiving Me? has been a bastion of illegal activity from its inception. From dropping knowledge bombs on the drive-by-media to other things we’ve never done, Receiving Me? has proudly thumbed its virtual nose at any family members willing to read our thoughts… but times have changed. Apparently, in a … [continue]
It was a hard fought election, but before the fake ballots were even counted, Barack Obama was declared the first African American Editor and Chief of Receiving Me?. Experts agree that Editor and Chief Elect Obama benefited from not knowing or even caring about the election results. “Unlike his opponents, who made jackasses out of themselves, Obama stayed above the … [continue]
Of those that happen upon Receiving Me?, there are a select few who read the content. Those who read the content give way to an even slimmer masochistic minority who revisit our foe magazine. This piece is for the edification of that slim readership.
Revisiting our beloved site, in search of good material you did not … [continue]
