Category Archives: bad ideas

Things I’m dumb enough to half-believe

talking brain

I’m a smart person, but part of me is stupid. Or maybe it’s not part of me – maybe it’s just living inside me, like a tapeworm. Except it’s a brainworm. And instead of eating my brain, it feeds my brain, with stupid ideas I know are wrong but somehow still think are true. Does…

Don’t be an idiot.

glued on hat

Check out the guy in the picture. He’s an idiot. Not for wearing a silly hat. But for gluing it to his head. With superglue. He had to go to an emergency room (one with pointless dolphins painted on the wall) to have it removed. I’m sure everyone asked the guy, “What were you thinking?” And…

What I learned from not washing.

In my last post, I wrote about a dorky hat I wore in 6th grade, and its special water-carrying properties.  I thought it was pretty cool that if a bunch of us were stranded at a campground, I could save the whole gang from dehydration by trekking to a lake or spring and hauling back…

The Old Adventures of New Me

For kids and other people in school, Labor Day Weekend is like New Year’s. It’s a time of reinvention, when you start over with a clean slate, and make all kinds of outlandish promises about the “new you.”

It’s like coming to Broad-WAY!

Action Park was a water park in New Jersey that deservedly earned the nickname “Accident Park” or, alternately, “Class Action Park.” Having gone there once a summer to slide head-first down their uninspected concrete water slides, with some fat kid crashing into us from behind every time, it’s a miracle my sister and I are…

For real?

Have you ever passed a pudding stone? I hear it’s very painful.

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