A few weeks ago Jab and I sat at a table/grill in a Korean BBQ eatery, stuffing our guts with delicious marinated meats. Oh the $16 all you can eat carnivorous bonanza was delightful. Though it occurred to me, spending this $16 was now a rarity. Despite this, he said to/…

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Some of you might not have noticed, because it's a bit inconspicuous, but I have a list of concepts that I've devised in the right hand bar of this blog. They are descriptive of things we've all experienced, but have remained unnamed.

I have given them a place in our vernacular.

Enjoy!


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Yesterday, I attended the much anticipated Los Angeles annual event: Erotica LA.

Coincidentally, the THC Convention was going on the same day. So there was plenty of weed to calm the horny that was generated in the loins of the Erotica LA attendees by porn stars gallivanting about.

But I digres/…

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In addition to being fascinated by sociology and how it's facets and effects change ever rapidly, I am also very interested in economics. As my macroecon professor once told me, as I presented my theory on decriminalization of illegal substances, "Are you sure you want to do advertising? You're far t… Read full post »

I don't "like" trannies in the sexually attractive, fetishy kind of way.

I admire them. They strive to be who they feel they are deep in the cavernous gray matter of their brains and don't apologize for it, ever.

Everyone should follow this kind of example.

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For every great woman that's out there, there's also one that is a complete wreck. You probably don't know which one you are either. Chances are if you're great, you believe yourself to be a cesspool of drama and insecurities. Because of this, you're likely great simply because you're aware of… Read full post »

Ah, Cinco de Mayo. The holiday that only the west coast of the United States seems to celebrate. In Los Angeles, the fervor for the ancient political event is even hotter. This of course being due to the fact that California was at one point part of what is today Mexico… Read full post »

I've recently been accused of being "boring". Well, I guess the more "fun" days of the blog were the days when I was a near suicidal mess.

I find that or a solid 99% of my life I was discontent, uncomfortable, bitchy, miserable, and enormously self-centered to boot. This is all fine/…

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I've said this more than once: my life is an episode of Seinfeld.

You know the coincidental convergence of awkward events that just compound into a fusion bomb of uber awkwardness because they weren't expected and generally involve the red hot poker of shame? Yes, those kinds of things. My exi/…

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Reproductive rights found their return to the political horseshit glazed spotlight this week by way of the tragic and untimely death of Dr. George Tiller. Dr. Tiller will be remembered truly not as a "murderer" but as a redeemer and liberator of women who had few or zero options - many/…

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If you are a resident reader of this blog, you'll no doubt know that it was born from a series of atrocious experiences I had with online dating (Match.com, Salon.com) in an epically drunk 2008. Around October 2008, I had decided to turn it down a notch and stop having so/…

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I remember being scared shitless to speak to other children when I was small. Especially boys. I was like Joe Bauer's character in Mike Judge's Idiocracy. I sounded smart, I had a large vocabulary for a grade schooler, "bitch" wasn't a name I commonly called my friends as I imagined it/…

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Now this is just a hypothetical. I'm not saying I've done this, but it's certainly in the cards. Location of Urination is probably the best gauge of intoxication. It is a primary social skill developed at a very young age: I piss on myself, my friends go away. This must be…

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I made a decision which I immediately regretted. I joined Twitter.

Now, make no mistake, I have done this because I need to experience it. I cannot rightly judge that which I have not experienced. Right?

So now, follow me if you wish:

Twitter.com/AstaCharles

Ciao!

A few weeks ago I was having drinks with a good friend of mine. We share a significant age gap of approximately forty years. Nevertheless, he keeps up, he's still a visionary. He said to me, "you know, there's a notable difference between your generation and mine."

Of all the things/…

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My chum and I were discussing the increasingly difficult nature of finding quality people with both kind hearts and intellectually robust brain testes. To which he added, eloquently:

I'll let you know when I meet someone who offers more than a reason to wash my sheets.

When offering this stateme/…

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About one week after I’d been back on American soil, Steven actually did ask me to “hang outâ€. It wasn’t given the façade or positioning of a date. Just a “hang outâ€. That’s was bros-dudes-guys do. In some ways, I can appreciate this elimination of any presupposition about what/…

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This is part one of a two part post of an excerpt from my manuscript. This took place last fall. The events described were a damned skippy exemplification of why electronic communication is a poor, awkward, and very confusion way to try to start dating someone. Especially a girl that has… Read full post »

I've been called a cunt twice this week, which means I must be doing something right in life.

There was a golden age when "bitch" was the biggest "stick" or "stone" that could be verbally thrown to break a woman's bones. Now we've broken on through to the big "c-u-next Tuesday"...cunt!

How…

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Sorry Penn and Teller. I'm gonna steal your thunder on this one a bit.

I could also have easily titled this, "My History of Emotional Abuse and How it Turned Me Into a Moron."

For a very long time I thought that men were simply creatures that didn't consider what came out of/…

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When I was six years-old my father put me in an after school Japanese class. At the time, our entire family was studying a relatively rare defensive martial art taught by only three instructors in the United States. All I needed to know for the "put people in a great deal/…

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I don't "like" trannies in the sexually attractive, fetishy kind of way.

I admire them. They strive to be who they feel they are deep in the cavernous gray matter of their brains and don't apologize for it, ever.

Everyone should follow this kind of example.

Surely there are many other types of/…

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I've noticed a shocking correlation between the time I spend pondering social dilemmas + coming up with reasonable solutions and the size of my ass. For the moment, sacrificing the hotness of "dat ass" seems a reasonable trade for a shot at brilliance.


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A Pre-Apology:

My apologies if this isn't as repulsively funny as you might have expected. I'm such a fucking downer most of the time, I felt that really, I had to illuminate some wonder that exists in the real world.

I spend a lot of effort on this blog noting what's wrong with/…

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