Author Archives: DAK

SoCal is all about the summer. The whole year is pretty much ideal, but the summer is especially so, and with each passing day it’s getting close. But alas, it’s not quite here, yet. The days are warm and sunny … Continue reading →

I’ve decided that “I’m hanging in there,” is the most depressing answer possible to “How ya doing?”. Consider, you have the “I’m doing great!” people, who are depressing in their own right, but that’s just the darkly comedic side of … Continue reading →

Is this really all there is?

Look, the thing about going to a rave in your 30’s is that at this point it is totally ironic. The saving grace, of course, is that it wasn’t actually a rave, just a party for a friend of mine … Continue reading →

and my question is, if you’re really homeless, what do you need all those keys for?!

So I should probably explain about the mustache (which, so you know the end of the story, is mercifully gone). A few months ago, my buddy proposed to his girlfriend) mistake #1 [what? I seem jaded?]), and so we obviously … Continue reading →

Where have I been? I’ll tell you where I’ve been. I’ve been holed-up in my room with the lights off, 10 days without shaving and twice that without a shower. My cheetos-stained tightie-whities illuminated in the glow from my laptop … Continue reading →

I’ve never had a really strong opinion about gun control. I just didn’t care one way or the other; people have guns, people don’t have guns, whatever. My theory was that I (or people I care about) could just as … Continue reading →

It occurs to me that I spent an inordinate amount of time writing about bathrooms. I’m not sure if that proves that people can write about anything, or that I should quit blogging all together. I’m in China, and I’m … Continue reading →

I think I can sum up the difference between China and the United States in one word. That word is: bathroom Now look, both countries have their (pardon the pun) crap-ass toilet set-ups. The US has their ripe porta-potties, and … Continue reading →