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How Love Evolved

August 3, 2011

Yesterday, on facebook, I asked my friends to kindly slap the shit out of me. I had my first five responses in less than a minute. Click here to download a free audio recording of this post. Donna asked whether she could slap me by proxy in today’s musings. It’s the least I can do. [...]

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Everybody Needs a Tessa

July 31, 2011

If The Fred Effect has an executive producer, it’s Tessa. Yes, I own it, and I pay the server bill. But, functionally speaking, I am really the production staff. I think up the stuff and take it to her for a green light or a red light. It’s her job to sift through all the [...]

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Our Own Joplin Tornado

July 24, 2011

A somewhat irregular character on The Fred Effect is Aunt Ray. Yes, she is a real person. She came up from Joplin on Friday which means there is clean laundry in the refrigerator and hangers on every door knob snapping Sean and me in the nuts and Tessa in the face. I don’t know where [...]

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A Baptism of Piss

July 20, 2011

I guess it’s summer vacation time. Long family car trips. Hitting each other with books. When I was a kid, our entertainment was in books. And license plates. No Game Boys. None of that. Hell. We didn’t even have seat belts. Dad took two rows of seats out of the Suburban and tossed a mattress [...]

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One More Reason I Prefer the Company of Women

July 10, 2011

You know when you’re looking around deep in your closet and you find a shirt from twenty years ago that you couldn’t part with? It may or may not fit, but it fits your mind perfectly. It reminds you of how you used to be, and how you really are deep down, before life fucked [...]

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Sweet Dildo Wine

June 1, 2011

My hand writing isn’t very good. So, when I saw this note on my desk, I go, “What the hell is “sweet dildo wine? Are we supposed to take some to Heather’s party?” The problem with sharing an office is that your partner can hear you talk. She doesn’t have a choice. Another note said [...]

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Wedgies and Male Bonding

May 29, 2011

Before I post today’s video blog, I just want to tell Linda, who writes, The Good the Bad the Worse, that I don’t have rabies and my hand is looking and feeling much better. Thanks for the concern and for the scolding. Love you, Linda. Today’s video is a cartoon for a sound track that [...]

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Let the Dandelions Roar

May 11, 2011

Sorry I don’t have a nice picture of a dandelion transforming into a lion’s head in mid-roar to go with the title. Wish I did. Click here to download a free audio recording of this post. I’ve always loved that story of the guy who wrote to the agricultural university asking how he might control [...]

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