JimFormation · I’ve Been Thinking …

Outsider Out

“I came here to completely destroy you, to bury you,” my Opponent said as we walked together down the 10th fairway.
His comment confused me. Was this an attempt to intimidate me or get me off my game? Was he making small talk? Was he letting me know how surprised he was that I was leading [...]

The Buck Stops Here

It is obvious to me that the reasons that we were told that our armies needed to invade Iraq and depose Saddam Hussein were wrong. Iraq was not in cahoots with al Qaida. Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction and weren’t poised to use them against us. Iraq was not actively building nuclear [...]

Rush To Rock Band

Some one was a genius to film this. It’s Rush playing the video game Rock Band to their own song.

I wanted to be embarrassed by it, but who the hell am I kidding, I don’t get embarrassed by anything. And everything is funny.

The Fuck Moment

“There was only one time that you showed you were frustrated,” Ronnie said. “I believe you yelled ‘Fuck!’ or something like that.”
It was probably “Fuck.”
Ronnie, my brother-in-law, was caddying for me in the qualifying tournament for the New Jersey State Fourball Championship. The Fourball Championship gathers some of the best amateur golfers in the state. [...]

High Muckety-Muck

I don’t like groups of people. Groups become all uppity and self-righteous. They form associations, make rules, and wave their private parts at Others that don’t know their Secret Handshakes.
The next thing you know these groups are telling the Others who they can hang with, which god they can talk to, and who they can [...]

Okay. This One Made Me Snort.

Men and Women

I’m not in the habit of reading jokie-jokes that are forwarded to me. I tell friends, “If I see that you blindly forwarded something to me, I delete it without opening it. If you think that something is so funny that I need to read it, take the time to copy-and-paste it, and attach a [...]

Bully

We all know Richard Simmons, right? He’s the guy who promotes fitness, sells diet cards and exercise tapes, and specializes in the really, really obese?
I heard him interviewed on the radio yesterday. He’s going to testify in front of congress about why schools need to keep their physical education programs. I agree with Richard.
Actually, whatever [...]

I’m Still Alive

I disappear from the cyberworld from time-to-time. I don’t mean it. Real-life and interests get in the way and I seem to fade away …
So what have you been doing?
Well, it’s summer. So I’ve been summering.
The sun stays up longer, so I’m outside longer. The kids are off from school, so we’re out longer.
We’re in [...]

Fighting Words

Yesterday, I was almost in a fight. An honest-ta-goodness fist fight. An old-fashioned scuffle. A bare-knuckle brewhaha.
Almost, but not quite. Damn.
You see, yesterday I was playing a quick nine holes after work with a few buds – my regular, weekday foursome – when some young knuckleheads thought we’d purposefully hit into them. Two of our [...]