Our world is not what it was. Change is in the air. Specifically, change is in the airwaves. Before the rise of TV, less than 100 years ago, the primary source of news was the newspaper. Before the rise of cheap paper, the primary source of news was the town cryer, or gossip around the tavern, or what have you. Television news has peaked and will soon be a supplemental source of information - the newspaper of the 21st century.

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I was thinking the other day. I try to avoid doing this for obvious reasons, but sometimes I just can’t help myself. What I was thinking about was something a friend of mine said about drug laws. Basically, he said “I don’t agree with most of the drug laws, but most Americans do, and in America, majority rules.”

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Once again, I’m getting new glasses. And much like the last few times since 1999, I’m getting them for free. I’m sorry. I can’t help it.

I love being me.

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Oh, frick, but it is raining like the devil here. Big, thick, nasty sheets of rain. The last time it rained like this, half of the island washed away - and I’m not being all metaphorical on your here. The University library was trashed but good.

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I’ve been thinking about my first car recently. Not the Chevy Grand Prix which I crashed into a drunk driver, which resulted in his arrest even though it was 100% my fault. He was drunk and I was not so I win. Yay! No, that was my mother’s car. I am talking about my 1972 puke green Plymouth Fury.

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Now it can be told. Back in the day, during the infamous early days of Internet Gossip, one of my first writing assignments was for a site that was attempting to compete with IG, Cock on a Bun. I wrote a series of articles using the name Xerxes. I remember writing a piece about Bobbi Billard’s boobs imploding or something. It has all sort of faded into memory now, so before it fades out completely, now, at last, a look at Cock on the Bun from behind the scenes.

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