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Crash!!!

I hate Pittsburgh winters. Sigh… So I was in a car wreck today. I mentioned it on my twitter page, but here are details in case anyone is wondering. The roads were getting bad, so Steph (my fiancee) asked me if I could pick her up from work. I said fine and after wandering around…

on Finding My Religion

Image by chrismaverick via FlickrAuthor’s Note: Today is my birthday. I am 36 years old. I’ve decided it might be a good idea to start blogging again. Back in the old days (see, I’m old now, so I can say that), I used to write quite lengthy rants on my livejournal, but I kind of…

the Mavicon… on the Maverick language test…

eyecon Originally uploaded by chrismaverick. So I had been meaning to put together a glossary of terms that I use here and that people might not necessarilly understand. I was working on it last night and decided to make a game out of it. So here’s how it works. There are 50 terms below. They’re…

the Great Maverick MatchMaking Meme…

First Dance Originally uploaded by chrismaverick. in which Mav egotistically makes a desperate plea for greater popularity, but sort of with a point, really I swear.So, a week ago, when I was doing the interview meme, lizardking625 asked me about being an internet icon. Honestly, I’m not really there yet, but I probably should be.…

on pertinent pediatric picture previews

Evelyn 2 Originally uploaded by chrismaverick. its been a while since I wrote a good pop culture rant. There’s actaully a 1KWFFH that’s been kicking around in my head for a couple days now, that should hopefully be making its appearance any day now. But for now, it needs to cook a little longer. In…

on “That’s Hot!” (or not)…

(EDIT: For people who are wondering, all the links here should be relatively worksafe. A tad on the sexy side, but I tried to not link to anything more scandalous than what might not grace the cover of Cosmo or Maxim in a grocery store checkout line) So, I know I sort of touched on…

what should I rant about?

hmmm… haven’t posted much in the last month or so. Haven’t really had much to say. Such is the life of a bum. Anyway, I was thinking that I might write a 1KWFFH rant about some topic but can’t think of what I want to tackle next. So I am taking suggestions. What should I…

1KWFFH: on doubling your pleasure…

So the following rant was generated by my reflecting on discussions I had with the lovely and delightful beststephi and the delightful and lovely froggiesocks, neither of whom have a twin as far as I know. The only twin I know of who supposedly reads this is dales and as far as I know, his…