“Preventative war is like committing suicide out of fear of death” — Otto Von Bismarck

“CowBoy Bebop” Season 1 Episode 9 “Blue Crow Waltz”, and the glory days of Spike and Vicious — Starting an episode with a detailed description of how a man likes to have his bush shaved is ballsy. The vainglorious Vicious quivers with glee recounting his intimate delights and our boy Fearless stands by, quippy as usual. The blasé manner that Vicious discusses his inner psycho and the carefree…

I lost my weed pen. I’d come home from work, ready to relax, unwind, and I couldn’t find it. That was really annoying. I’d been looking forward to that moment. So I tore my apartment apart looking for it. I checked the pockets of all my clothes. I stripped the…

“Peaky Blinders” SEASON 4 Episode 2 “Heathens”, and the arrival of Luca Changretta — Season 3 of Peaky Blinders was a marked departure from the previous 2 seasons. Leaving Birmingham and Small Heath behind, the members of Shelby Company Limited trounced about lavish mansions. They decorated them in the traditional style of the aristocrats who had held them downtrodden for generations. It was like…

What do you look at when you take a shit? The wall? The inside of your pant leg? The crack in the stall? The ceiling? No, I bet you look at your phone. That’s what people do in the bathroom. Hell, that’s what people go to the bathroom to do. …

No, it’s not that one. — Power resides where men believe it resides. — Varys, Game Of Thrones What if some guy in a black leather gimp suit and a deep, seductive voice told you he could show you The Truth and offered you two pills? You’d tell him to fuck off. As would I. Because…

Gosling looks like a lion, lounging on the Savannah, as he eats pizza in a strip mall — I’m going to tell a story, that I probably shouldn’t tell, and nobody wants to hear. It’s about my dating life. It’s about getting rejected. And it isn’t a good story. But I’m going to tell it, because it’ll sit perfectly juxtaposed with the photo above. I’m going to paint…

You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometime you find You get what you need — — The Rolling Stones I’ve loved these tributes that NBA players do after they retire. I read every one. Dwayne Wade and Kobe moved me near tears with theirs. Wait. Did you just compare yourself to DWade and Kobe? Maybe. It’s definately a little audacious. But I like to think that it reflects how…

Just shy of 12 hours post viewing “The French Dispatch” — More important than anything else, a story must be told. That’s what makes it a story. It follows that whomever tells the tale will have a role in shaping it. One story told by two people will have similarities, and differences. It is an inevitable necessity that the story teller…