Everyone’s favorite acronym, SOPA, takes center stage this week as potentially hundreds of websites ‘go black’ to protest controversial legislation that could mean censorship of the Internet. At the heart of the legislation is the ability of the government to block access to websites that sell pirated (copyrighted) material, which costs ‘legitimate businesses’ hundreds of billions in lost revenue. Mostly* this thing is about art. Music and movies. But SOPA is not about the artists. It’s about the ‘legitimate businesses’…
There’s a horn growing out of my head. It started about a month ago with what felt like a dry patch of skin at my hairline above my right temple. But it has progressed into something that I can no longer deny. I’m turning into a non-human. Something Godlike. The way I figure it, I’ve got about another week before everyone I interact with in person stops believing that the bandage covering the lump on my head is the result…
I woke up this morning like I do most Saturdays, with a bed full of girls. We talked and laughed and before getting up for the day, I said something like, “I don’t want this to be just another Saturday filled with routines, ok?” Twenty minutes later I was enjoying a coffee and watching a video of Paulo Coelho talking about ‘seeking adventure’ as a writer, when my wife yelled OH MY GOD from the kitchen. I can see the…
Until I was eighteen, sex meant using my imagination and a JC Penny catalog. But then things changed. And for the next six years I enjoyed the company, and the madness, of many women. It was the age in life when we fling our bodies around like Frisbees. With hormones raging and our bodies in peak physical condition, we feel like Gods. I’m sure it’s no different today. Nor will it be any different tomorrow. But then things changed again…
Unless you live in Ukraine, you know all about Denver Broncos QB Tim Tebow and his remarkable run as a starting QB in the NFL. If not, here’s the synopsis: Tim Tebow was the 25th player selected in the 2010 NFL draft as a QB out of of the University of Florida (go Gators). Every NFL guru said he was be better suited to play fullback or linebacker, because of his size, strength and agility. But Tebow insisted he’s a…
I don’t want to watch detectives string together clues to my murder, from heaven. Getting angry at them for their coffee breaks. And overlooking the obvious. *** Jim Mitchem doesn’t sell spaceships. Just ships.
