After rounding the world four times and getting the piercings, but only having three earrings to show for it because he's too picky about what he'll actually put back in his ear, Mark attempted to settle down back in his hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee. This, of course, did not happen because, quite apparently, he has been biologically implanted with a PsychoMagnetâ„¢ which makes even the most stable of people batshit crazy.
Mark is currently "hiding" in wildly public places, and making as much noise as possible, while throngs of anonymous nutjobs accuse him of every salacious deed imaginable, such as the unseasonable rainfall of 2011, the murders of several prominent people who are still very much alive, and the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania. Mark is a carnivorous smoker who is Politically agnostic, unable to reproduce, refuses all manners of Internet dating, and generally believes that Murphy was an optimist.						
					 
        
                
                        
                                
March 2nd, 2013 at 5:24 pm by Mark
Tags: drama, fear, kids, moth, parenting, sarcasm, teenagers
				
	Teenaged girls are bad for drama, it’s true.  Teenaged boys are just as bad…
Most of time, it can be handled with extreme sarcasm.

 
		
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March 1st, 2013 at 5:57 pm by Mark
Tags: carrier pigeons, email, message, software
				
	As if AOL’s voice screaming, “You’ve got mail!” wasn’t bad enough, these days we’re often annoyed by persistent icons displaying the number of messages we haven’t read yet.  Depending on the piece of software, however, this number may be completely incorrect, showing at least one unread message when you’ve already done a, “Mark All as Read.”

 
		
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February 28th, 2013 at 7:58 pm by Mark
Tags: animals, chinese, food, irony, malls
				
	Doesn’t bother me.
I ate at Panda Garden last night, which has a picture of a Koala on its sign. Around the corner from them is a “Christan” book store, which had “Fifty Shades of Grey” proudly displayed in the window. Just up from there was the Mattress Outlet, which only sold waterbeds.
Strip malls are always bizarre…

 
		
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February 27th, 2013 at 5:59 pm by Mark
Tags: culture, future, social commentary, technology, time travel
				
	Major technological advances are to be expected from decade to decade, and that’s a fact.  But when we set expectations for our future, people never take into account social change; they simply use their current culture and attitude as a baseline for “how things will be.”  Someone from the nineteen fifties who travelled to the here-and-now would certainly be shot down to realize that despite all the keen gadgets we have today, most people are just wet rags…

 
		
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February 26th, 2013 at 5:16 pm by Mark
Tags: cellphones, history, innuendo, phones, teenagers, telephones
				
	The adolescent phone snickered for hours when the elder cellphone told him about his great-great-grandfather’s massive crank…

 
		
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