Where am I?

October 6, 2011 / josephpatrickrichards / Leave a comment

6 October 2011

Hello loves.

I’m sure you noticed my absence.

Didn’t you? Didn’t you?

I have been working a heaping helping of hours at work and have had little time for hilarity.

Here are some things to consider:

Please listen to Army Navy’s version of “Right Back Where We Started From”
Tomorrow night, GF and I will go to the BlackCat in DC to watch The Lemonheads perform It’s A Shame About Ray in its entirety.
Tonight I rushed home from work to watch Grey’s Anatomy. I do not understand myself.
I have not been able to let you know the story of the latest Cone Alone, but they will return soon. They must!

Here is a picture in the meantime.

A-Kordingly

September 30, 2011 / josephpatrickrichards / Leave a comment

30 September 2011

Nice fall evening to you crisp lovelies.

That actually sounds like I’m commenting on the style in which you have been cooked. I apologize. I neither support nor condemn cannibalism.

October is a month that begins again tomorrow. It is a month that is known for at least two things: a sea of pink and a sea of spook.

For comments on the usual pink parade, check out GF’s analysis.

The question for Halloween is always, “What are you going as this year?”

Well friends, what am I going as? I have the notion that I want to be the Ted Kord Blue Beetle. I’ll try to bring you with me over the next few months as I attempt to compile this costume.

Heaven can wait

September 29, 2011 / josephpatrickrichards / 1 Comment

29 September 2011

GF and I walked home in the crisp, fall air today. We went to a farmer’s market and GF used her own money to purchase me a barbecue sandwich. I ate it and she had one, big bite.

GF purchased our first pumpkin of the season. She also purchased bread and pulled off a piece to eat as we descended via escalator into the underground Metrorail station.

We popped out on the other side in Virginia and continued a conversation about how depressing humanity is sometimes.

World-class idiots continue to try to undermine healthcare and pursue some ridiculous personal world view at the expense of humans.

I believe religion has no role in politics and government. Politics, government and leading are about listening to the people you serve. Politics is not about a higher power outside of ourselves. It is not about judgement. It is about serving. Doing the best you can for people on this planet now.

Too many religions denigrate and devalue women and many, many other groups of individuals. To have persons ascribing to these beliefs as policymakers is part of the explanation for policies that undermine women and punish anyone different from well-off heterosexual White men.

Their depravity nose no bounds

September 28, 2011 / josephpatrickrichards / Leave a comment

28 September 2011

Good evening sexy persons of awesomeness,

Have I told you lately that I love you? Well it is true. I do.

The true believers may be aware I took the Graduate Records Exam (GRE) today. Recently I thought, “I may want to go to graduate school again at some undetermined point in future.” So why not take the GRE?

I believe I am legally prevented from sharing any details at all about any experiences in the secret room where scared humans sit wearing headphones and chagrined faces. I believe the GRE police (GREP) will track me down to the ends of the earth and snap off all my toenails if I so much as breathe a word of the secret room.

What I can tell you, even at risk of excruciating pain, is that when the GREP tell you to take everything out of your pockets, they mean EVERYTHING.

My friends, you know I am sick and you know I am a citizen of the planet Earth. When I am sick, like now, I usually use handkerchiefs for the expulsion of nostril mucus. The GREP prevented me from taking even a handkerchief into the testing room. The GREP told me I could take some tissue. What? And destroy Earth with every sniffle?* How dare you GREP? Snot cool. Snot cool at all.

Take it to the bridge!