Enlightenment thinkers believed that human beings were born as untouched entities, innocent of the world, and therefore as malleable as a lump of Playdough. This was the childhood “clean slate”, or tabula rasa in Latin. Essentially, babies started fresh…
When considering a trip, it is not uncommon for your mind to jump directly to the most horrible, awful, depraved possibilities that await you in the unknown. The pre-trip thought process often ventures into the realm of what can only…
Home remedies are supposedly a domain unique to ancient women who shuffle around in slippers and wear fuzzy berets to church every Sunday. When a friend tells you to drink tea with lemon and honey that one…
America has a strange way of choosing its capital cities. All across the world, government seats are shining bastions of culture, wealth, and power. All citizens look to these cities as trendsetting locales to be admired, to…
“Don’t talk to strangers” is a neat little morsel of wisdom that is supposedly the only thing keeping you from 15 minutes of fame with an age-progressed picture on the side of a milk carton, but it’s never served me…
A pivotal experience I had as a child was the realization that people are different in the world. People look differently, behave differently, live differently. Not everyone had the suburban, American, upper middle-class upbringing that you always see in movies.…
On the list of mankind’s greatest fears, staying in a youth hostel ranks just above fear of your own imminent and inevitable death. Without seeing the movie “Hostel” and thinking some wacko (yet super sexy) girls will trick you…
The concept of a “companion” fascinates me. Simply defined as “one who accompanies you”, they are neither friend nor family and at times, they can very quickly degenerate into a nemesis. This is the individual who will, for a short…
There are special places in hell for a few select professions, and as far as I’m concerned, bus drivers make the cut. According to Dante Aligheri, there are nine concentric circles of hell, and according to me, the place for…
Have you ever met someone who tells you they hate beer? They will usually say they don’t like the taste….hence this is usually university girls and 17 year old boys. My response is always the same: “Get really fuckin’ thirsty…