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Chafes and other irritations
Here is my collection of invective and bile. Do with it what you wish. Reply if you care to.

Tires, treads, mufflers and ruts (February 7, 2001)
The Saddle Sores semi-annual emotional rut is underway. Come join the festivities.

SUVs: defying the laws of physics (February 3, 2001)
First time my car gets hit by someone. Done by a tiny old man in an SUV. Now THAT's ironic.

I didn't get 20/20 vision just to see an oaf take an oath (January 21, 2001)
Saddle Sores avoids discomfort by heading towards the land of John Waters.

Historical treks of questionable repeatibility (January 21, 2001)
Saddle Sores heads towards the lands of the Wright Brothers.

Today I get Zapped (January 6, 2001)
Saddle Sores in the seat of a LASIK surgeon.

Playing catch-up (December 27, 2000)
Between a cool family, a multiplicity of activities, and a decrease in porn-hunter traffic, December has been a pretty decent month.

Death metal, loneliness and pregnant Chads
(November 21, 2000)
November brought Saddle Sores a death metal concert, a bagful of pregnant chads, and too much time spent without company of others.

Cabeza de Calabaza
(October 29, 2000)
I may have gotten carried away, but I think the pumpkin I carved this year turned out to be wicked cool.

It's about pains in the ass
(October 22, 2000)
Confirming what should now be a maxim: going to a restaurant because it's in the Gayellow pages will rarely bring good food and always bring some form of irritation.

Brief Updates
(October 16, 2000)
Amazing people, bringing down the rainbow flag, nostalgia and politics.

Fun with logs
(July 26, 2000)
Hairy naked men. Or mebbe not...

I'm back at it...
(July 7, 2000)
Remiss on my updates, but no apologies.

Wilderness in New Jersey?
(May 16, 2000)
Who would have thought that the Garden State actually has gardens?

A breakdown in the instinct for self-preservation
(May 1, 2000)
Saddle Sores goes to the not-yet-the-Millenium March on Washington

Of Soda in the Desert
(April 27, 2000)
20,000 km of Panamerican highway as giant bilboard for mysterious beverage.

A new favorite place: The National Building Museum
(April 26, 2000)
A museum dedicated to architecture, civil engineering and urban planning.

Houoli Makahiki Hou...
(January 15, 2000)
Saddle Sores goes to Hawaii.

So it boils down to this...
(December 12, 1999)
Stifled creativity and a Chicano Elvis

Bouts of blah
(November 11, 1999)
Travel continues to get the better of YGH. Louisville's scene gets the worse of him.

New happenings and no news
(October 17, 1999)
Travel gets the better of Your Gracious Host.

"On pot-smoking, maggot infested liberals.."
(September 24, 1999)
DC residents get their votes counted; Bob Barr is still on the quest for a shaft that works.

A new buzz
(September 5, 1999)
Boston has brought out the writer again.

More district woes
(August 9, 1999)
Of Listings, Representation and the UnAmerican Way.

Riding our way back to 1763
(August 4, 1999)
Why must the District of Columbia be subordinate to the whims of a bigoted Smyrnan?

War on sport utilities
(June 9, 1999)
Do we really need so many sadistic ungainly vehicles?

A brewsky for gay America? please...
(May 24, 1999)
So the two gay guys in the beer ad are holding hands... what do I care?

The Gay American Novel
(May 19, 1999)
Tired of those happy feelgood narratives? So is this reader...

Aspirations of Growth
(January, 1999)
What happens to a man when he succumbs to the allure of Ikea..