I wrote this gag while on a walk. I was thinking about “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and how the thoughts of stupid mistakes/actions from our past tend to haunt us. It wasn’t a far leap from haunting to “Ghostbusters.” So I mashed the two ideas together. I have heard of people purging traumatic… — read more

There’s few things the invoke a sense of sadness and mortality than inadvertently stepping on a snail. Half-way though the process – mid-crunch – the mind realizes what is happening and that there is nothing that can be done to alliviate the situation. I’ve often wondered what it would be like to be a snail… — read more

If my memory serves me right, I first saw Sea Monkeys in an ad in the back of a comic book, alongside X-Ray glasses and the like. The idea of having little human-like underwater creatures as pets sounded too good to be true. And, of course, it was. Yet, for all the disappointment of what… — read more

I predict that, one day, LASIK will be an opt-in free service to any American who needs it, and it may cost the taxpayer less than what we think. At some point, the technology and availability of LASIK surgery will come down so dramatically that we (health care providers and government health agencies) will do… — read more

I’ll admit it: I think there’s validity to the Mandela Effect. The whole idea is outlandish until we start seeing some examples. Then it begins to feel as though either it’s real or we’ve gone nuts. How does déjà vu fit into the Mandela Effect? Well, if there is a way to manipulate history, there… — read more