When all is said (and done, but mostly said): Isn’t it entirely possible, as a friend of mine wondered aloud the other day, that Michael Jackson died a virgin? That he never had any sexual contact with anyone?

What are the necessary aims of a good topical Facebook status update? It should entertain, delight, challenge, blow a mind or two. This is all about realizing and fully accepting that Facebook is a stage, and we’re all players.

As the Depression solidifies into Armageddon, we’re all going to have to get more comfortable with committing a lot more crime. The average Joe of the near future is going to make Mad Max look like Paul Lynde.

Play-by-play account of an odd Patti Smith appearance on the children’s show “Kids Are People Too’ from the 70s.

Oh-hey-look I’m writing about Facebook again. Instead of getting rich off a similar pyramid scheme, or “marketing myself” off-Facebook, where it count$, I’m sitting around in the dingy Facebook Fascination bathwater we all seem to be wrinkling up in.
Neverandnonetheless, I started a group late last month on The ’Book (as I call it), called “Frandor [...]

Everyone from Detroit has an Aretha story. Even my dad has one, something involving her and some ice cream and how he doesn’t think her voice is all that.
I grew up in the same vicinity that Aretha has lived in for 30 years: the Birmingham-Bloomfield area, about 20 miles north of Detroit. So, besides being [...]

On my recent trip to Dublin with my unforgettable sister, Kristyne P., I was thinking about how I had never been so comfortable with my American accent abroad. I hadn’t been overseas since 1999. Maybe it’s getting older that makes you just not care. I didn’t apologize for how I talk or feel bound to [...]

Pt. 1: Why We Are Cousins
EXPECTATIONS MANAGEMENT NOTE: This is not a parody like others you’ve seen on UsedWigs. It’s not supposed to be funny. This is real.

Fact: My grandmother’s maiden name was Heath. Fact: Sarah Palin’s maiden name is Heath. Republican-style fact synthesis: That makes us cousins!
Jealous?
From having a shared last name to being [...]