The Wayward Irregular

The Wayward Irregular


Latest Episodes

There’s a Special Quiet In The Cloudy Ones That Does It For Me
August 15, 2011

The disagreement: A gentleman with whom I work tells me that the best way to take your meals is outdoors, and I respectfully tell him that he is a godless heathen.  He loves it – can’t possibly absorb enough sunlight and bathe himself all ove

Perhaps The Yellow Bag is a Multi-Purpose Survival Device
August 08, 2011

When they opened a new IKEA store a few miles from my home, little did I know this would prepare me for inter-galactic space travel.  The titan blue box finished it’s month long and near-silent birth only recently – the store pasted against t

There’s One For Each of Us, and Mine Is Called Keith and The Girl
August 01, 2011

Everyone has a morning show they watch or listen to, regardless of how accurate the words before that comma truly are. Part of the waking routine for the living can vary – coffee, a shower, blowing your nose and lighting a cigarette, wildly scrambli

Ten Ton Fantasies, The Taibbi Man Crush, and I’ve Never Read Ellison
July 25, 2011

Often, I sit down with eight fingers on the middle row, and not a damn thing other than a messy sneeze can get them active. They say – the royal they – they say that in order to be a writer you must simply keep writing. Marvelous, thanks they.

The Inexhaustible Patience of P. Finnegan and the Terrible Funnel of Questions
July 18, 2011

When hired at the agency where I shared space with an indomitably patient Irishman, little did he know that my presence would eventually correlate to his daydreams involving elaborate suicide. I’ll save you the backstory for this multifarious ride, the

The Treasure Cave, The Gorilla, The Cliff Diver, Rolling Music and Bubble Guns
July 11, 2011

You don’t simply experience Casa Bonita, Casa Bonita is thrust upon you. The restaurant, tethered to our realm in Lakewood Colorado, translates from the Spanish directly into “Beautiful House,” or “Oiled Beef.” The place is organic, breathing in

More Dark Stuff: Savage Grief for Internet Explorer 6
July 05, 2011

If the internet browsers Firefox, Safari, and Chrome are your chiseled jaw pioneers – convertible cars and pitch black hair that never moves, then Internet Explorer yields more the image of an elderly gray sweater sitting in the corner, throwing off

Automata: Hallowed Be Thy Game
November 11, 2010

Dark noir flows over New York, the swath of tonight’s brush is wide and grim. The 18th amendment has passed, and with it the cessation of all robotproduction - if it makes you toast it’s permissible, but if it reminds you to pick up more bread at the

It’s On The Top Shelf, Next To The Cardboard Box of Heeby Jeebies
October 18, 2010

There is a program we’re able to watch on our collective radio-with-pictures boxes, and it’s aptly dubbed Unsolved Mysteries – a show that literally accomplishes nothing. It comes on, peels your eyes open, then pours a slurry of nightmares into

Marijuana Dispensaries Are The Great Evil Devil Satan
August 25, 2010

We are at the precipice of the “adult book store” for a generation who grew up with Nirvana as make-out music; we the pastel thinkers, we the children of the flannel button-up. In Colorado, legend goes, there’s a medical marijuana dispensary (read:

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