Patrick – Page 30 – They're Just Words

Posted on October 9, 2018October 8, 2018 by Patrick

Silly Is As Silly Does

If you make a living watching sports, you’ll see a lot of silly things perpetrated by fans and players and broadcasters and rules makers. Well, I don’t make shit watching sports, in fact, I pay dearly, for cable and tickets and t-shirts that bulge from every drawer in the house and autographed footballs that get donated to poor people by accident … and so the silliness I see leads to anger and frustration and unheard screams for logic and common sense and mature adult behavior.

Posted on October 6, 2018October 5, 2018 by Patrick

The 21st-Century Social Experiment

It has to do with petroleum products and nacho cheese sauce. It has to do with people at both ends of the economic spectrum colliding in an unplanned daily ritual. It involves the odd behaviors and incredulous dietary decisions that happen when a snack shack turns into a restaurant. And, it turns out, this 21st-century phenomenon – part filling station, part coffee house, part homeless waystation, part junk food drive-thru – is a fascinating social experiment and a rare, strange, freak-filled science project that, at some point, involves just about every modern life form.

Posted on September 27, 2018September 26, 2018 by Patrick

This Commercial Break Brought To You By Stupidity

Like most Americans, when I’m forced to flip on the television I watch just two things – sports and commercials. When I tune in to sports I learn about kids’ games with impossibly complicated rules and what the world looks like from a blimp and how millionaires behave when they take various forms of speed. And when I see the commercials I learn the nuances of modern society and how the power of suggestion can trick tiny human brains and that the engine of American commerce is generally fueled by, well, stupidity.