Tales of Unspeakable Taste

 I woke up this morning to a Facebook message from one of my cousins on my mom's side. It contained two video clips labeled Thanksgiving...

 One of the most frustrating things about going through Grandma's photo collection of the family over the century (and I mean that liter...

 If you were to ask me for the best word to describe myself, I'd choose "reader." I do not remember a time when I was not cons...

Photo inside this photo by John Kopoulos  And then from the back: I found this with a bunch of Gramps's old Army pictures, so I can only...

 About a month or so ago I was tearing my hair out over a water leak in my house, and the City of Elmhurst was charging us out the ass on th...

 As I've been cleaning out my house, I've been making discoveries here and there. Finding artifacts from 100+ years ago, for instanc...

 It's been one year and forty-seven days since my last drink. Today I decided to visit Gramps and Grandma, so I stopped by Williams Liqu...

 There's an episode of Fringe in which Walter Bishop gets lost in Chinatown. Remember, when we first met him, he was on a psych ward and...

 Since I dropped two GFs heavy on politics last week, I promised myself that I would stay away from politics this week. Give you all a rest....

Shortly after Gramps died I decided that my new Christmas or New Year ritual would be smoking a cigar and drinking scotch in commemoration o...

 If you follow my social media, you've seen all the pictures I posted from my youth as well as a bunch from my parents' and grandpar...

 Remember how, back when I lost my second toe, when I got out of the hospital I had this weird feeling that I'd accidentally been sent t...

 Tomorrow would have been Gramps's 96th birthday. It's hard to believe he's been gone almost seven years. I always used to think...

  Not too long ago I found my childhood knife, pictured above. I don't remember when Gramps gave it to me, but I'm pretty sure it wa...

 The other day I could smell blood. That's a precursor of my seasonal nose bleeds. It happens every time we get a drastic change in weat...

 To be read to this song . Although it will be difficult because that song is fucking hilarious, and you probably won't be able to conce...

  Dean Stockwell recently died. I thoroughly enjoyed just about every role I saw him in. It's hard to believe now, but back when he was ...

This is probably how Gramps saw me at the time   I remember the first time I got behind the wheel of a car and drove. I terrified everyone i...

 To be read to this song. Every year, on the anniversary of his death, my family gets together to visit my grandfather's grave. Due to t...

For all my life, I thought that Gramps dying would be the worst thing to happen to me. When he actually started dying, I went kind of crazy....