Monthly Archives: September 2008

Is This Really Happening?

You bet your life it is. I’d like to direct everyone’s attention to something I wrote in May of 2005, called Bleakonomics.

26 September, 2008 – 2:23 am | By Josh Berthume | Posted in Economics | Comments (1)

Rock Band 2: Anti-Union?

Bon Jovi: “Union men on strike” = why we are livin’ on a prayer Rush: “Oak trees have formed a union” leading to some kind of forest war. Tenacious D: Owns the means of production (the Pick of Destiny) but “blows your mind” – “accidentally”. Beck: Refusing to negotiate (will not give up that ghost) …

16 September, 2008 – 10:54 am | By Josh Berthume | Posted in Music, Video Games | Comments (0)

13. Seven Years On

I wrote this in 2007, but surprisingly I still feel much the same way. A poll was out on Monday from Zogby that showed a majority of Americans polled — 87% of them, to be exact — see 9/11 as the “most significant historical event of their lives.” At first I was inclined to think …

11 September, 2008 – 12:51 am | By Josh Berthume | Posted in Short Stories, Long Odds | Comments (0)

Found in Nature

A Moment On The Road Sometimes there’s more truth in things like pictures and words than you can possibly have planned on.

2 September, 2008 – 11:55 pm | By Josh Berthume | Posted in Culture | Comments (2)