LARGETONY Blog

I’ve been suffering from blogger’s block lately. It’s like writer’s block for bloggers. I don;t really consider what I’m doing here to be REAL writing. It’s just crap that rolls around in my head at times. Sort of mucus of opinions and observations. I try to do these blog entries without stopping. Just let the [...]

Isn’t interesting how the word “blog” has evolved from a contraction of the words “web” and “log” into a verb almost as quickly as it has entered our vocabulary. When a noun becomes a verb, its sort of a sign of something being a major phenomenon in culture. Take the word “punk’d” for example. It, [...]

Remember when you were a kid (Oh, God, I’m being an old man again) and you got in trouble for something and one of your parents laid into you for it? Once the storm passed you thought you were in the clear but in reality the storm was just laying low until the other parent [...]

Okay, it’s official. I’m getting old. As I enter the last nine months or so of my twenties I have found myself wondering what happened to the way things used to be. What happened to a simpler time?
This was triggered by a recent visit to mega-merchant Wal-Mart (which I am discovering is a microcosm for [...]

Remember the old Far Side cartoons? I have two favorites that always come to mind when I think of The Far Side. In fact, as much as I enjoyed the comic, I can only remember these two specific panels. One of them features a bunch of cows sitting around the living room and the phone [...]