August 14th, 2011
This isn’t a diatribe against the pope; it isn’t a complaint about the number of (extra) collections they hit you with during mass. It’s not even a repudiation of the urban myth Catholic kids used to spread about a free pass to heaven if you wore a scapula from the moment you were born. No, this is about the kind of lying that Catholics do. Yes, we lie. And I say “we” even though I’m really a non-practicing Catholic. I still feel guilty about lying. So Catholic lying is how I do it.
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Tags: catholicism, do lawyers lie, how can you lie without lying, lying, men over 40, women over 40
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August 5th, 2011
If you’ve ever watched one of those shows about hoarders, you know how unbelievably disgusting hoarding can be. I know first hand. No, not from Gary (though I do believe he still has 15 years of Modern Drummer hidden somewhere in the attic). I’m talking about Mrs Hoffman, the old woman who lived next door when I was growing up. And when I say “hoarder” I mean someone who had newspapers piled several feet high on every single surface, magazines from the 1930s – and held on to a plate of food from our Christmas dinner through January. Yuck.
But this isn’t about the revolting stuff hard-core hoarders keep. It’s about the secret hoarding going on in everyone’s life. Yes; you, my friend. You are a hoarder. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Babedom, ending relationships, getting rid of old clothes, hoarding, letting go, men over 40, reorganizing, saving clothes that don't fit, saving things, skinny jeans, women over 40
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July 21st, 2011
New concept. . . not. We just had another name for them, way back when (though I guess for some of us, there may be some more recent history). We called them f@ck buddies. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Babedom, birth control, euphemisms for sex, free love, friends with benefits, if it feels good it's alright, men over 40, sex in the 1970s, STD, VD, women over 40
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July 17th, 2011
Guess who cares what I think: Kellogg’s. Really. I’m not kidding. They actually asked me to try two of their high fiber cereals and report to you, my loyal readers, what I thought of them (see: one more benefit to being over 40!). And I thought: boy, are they brave! Have they ever read this blog?
Let me start by admitting Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: asking my opinion, Atkins diet, Babedom, beyond babedom, breakfast, cereal, eating habits, how do you judge a cereal, is high fiber good for you, men over 40, what cereals are best, women over 40
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July 10th, 2011
Don’t deny it; you know you do it. You may pretend you don’t, but let’s be honest; you schedule that “special time” with yourself. I don’t care what you call it and I don’t care how you do it. Maybe you don’t have a vibrator at the side of your bed. Maybe you just Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Babedom, beyond babedom, budget crisis, health care problem, hysteria, John Boehner, men over 40, orgasm, women over 40
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