grin and bare it
A blog by Matthew Dicks
The rest of the story
By request, the rest of the highlights of my lip-syncing career: In 1989, Bengi, Coog, and I headed to Salisbury Beach in northern Massachusetts to create a lip-syncing music video in a studio along the…
Read MoreMemories I’d like to forget
While playing Sweet Child O’ Mine at last night’s wedding, Bengi and I reminisced about a time when we were seventeen years old. We were both in high school, working for a McDonald’s in Milford,…
Read MoreOutsourcing my underwear
It’s a problem that most men face. We purchase underwear and socks and then forget about ever purchasing another pair, assuming that our current supply will get us through the rest of our lives. Then…
Read MoreIt’s all about the shoes
In the film The Shawshank Redemption, protagonist Andy Dufresne wears the warden’s shoes during his escape from the prison, walking right by guards and inmates with the shiny, black dress shoes on his feet. Quite…
Read MoreThe verdict
While I wait for Taryn to finish falling in love with CHICKEN SHACK and possibly negotiate the subject of my next novel, I sit and wait. Since the choice of my next story might be…
Read MoreStraight-talk
I’m not a Republican, and I’m not comfortable with everything Dale Peterson says, but damn if this isn’t the best campaign commercial I’ve ever seen.
Read MoreToo much television
There are more televisions in an average US household than there are people. By 2006, Nielsen Media Research estimated that the average US household had 2.73 televisions sets. Compare that with an estimated 2.55 people…
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