Stryder's Blog

After graduating from high school in 1970, I decided to take a tour of this country's places of incarceration. Here is a list of the one...

Okay, so. S***. Another story. This really happened to me in 1976. I had managed to hustle up a little bit of money, so when I return to th...

We (the freeborn fuckups, a name i came up with) were hanging out in our room at the Eltro hotel, a derelict building on Decatur Street in t...

I was living on the west side of Chicago in a run down 6th floor walkup. I was making a few bucks now and then as an under the radar roofer...

I was in Orleans Parrish Prison in 1974 for "possession of greenish brown vegetable, probably marijuana." It wasn't actually m...

In her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18...

As a liberal leaning American citizen, I'm confused by all of the contradictions in the conservative movement's platform.  They clai...

A few years ago I read a piece in the Onion about broken dreams. Discarded musical instruments played a large role in this. It made me th...

In a word... no. I read the JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings as a teenager. I remember liking it, but I'm not so ...

I had a kind of a neat morning, but not the kind you'd talk to just anybody about. So I thought I'd come to you, my closest friend,...

Recently my wife and I attended the Maryland Renaissance Festival . It was our third time. The festival is a whole lot of fun. It's an ...

My wife and I are back from Alaska. We did lots of neat touristy stuff in Fairbanks, but the BIG deal was a trip to Bettles. Bettles is a t...

Nothing in particular to say. I just thought this was funny.