Friday, April 24, 2009

In my youth I threw caution to the wind, but like a boomerang,
caution rebounded to bite me in the ass.

bg burke, 2009


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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Uncomplicated sex

The craigslist ad went: "mature female looking for uncomplicated sex with mature male." Seemed a simple, honest ad. Boy, oh boyo, did I have that wrong. One hundred (I stopped counting) replies from, you guessed it, or maybe not, from would-be's, wanna be's my sex partner from 26 years old to 50.

Gee, it turned out I didn't need that $50 million grant to research what smell or look attracts. All I needed was, not a bailout, but a vagina.

Apparently, and I feel so bad about this, I hurt one respondent's feelings when I turned him down; he "flagged" me on the list. I am left to wonder if he was the respondent with the poor little "Weenie."

My impronto ad leads me to but two conclusions: 1) write a book; and 2) the economists have it all wrong.


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