Author Archives: AdaptiveCurmudgeon

About AdaptiveCurmudgeon

Adaptive Curmudgeon is handsome, brave, and wise.

Eleven Dollars

An open letter to an airport; you know who you are. I can forgive the TSA’s attempt to rape me. I hope you enjoyed it, you damn perverts. I can forgive the airline that canceled my flight in anticipation of … Continue reading

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Winter Of Doom: Part 3

From Theo Spark:

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Winter of Doom: Part 2

Every blizzard has a name. That name is ‘winter’. Continue reading

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Winter Of Doom: Part I

Wind chill numbers are for sissies. If you are in my presence and repeat the “wind chill factor” because it’s an extreme number I reserve the right to hit you with a shovel. Continue reading

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Post 2013: Materialism

It’s the turning of the yearly cycle. I (like many folks) use this time for post-game mental debriefings. If I don’t learn what lessons the prior year granted me I might get the same lesson again; good and hard. Is … Continue reading

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Corporal Klinger and Phil Robertson

To protest against a person due to his religious views, and to do it in the the name of ‘tolerance’ makes no sense. It’s like eating steak in the name of vegetarianism. Continue reading

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A Christmas Movie Recommendation You’re Invited To Ignore

I refrain from recommending movies. Partly because most movies are shit. Partly because my taste in cinema, so I’ve been told, is… appalling. That said I’d like to recommend a “Christmas Horror” movie. It’s a Finnish “independent” movie called Rare Exports. Continue reading

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Zombie Christmas

This is the fourth year of a my Festivus Christmas tradition.  We gather around the warm glow of the laptop and watch A Very Zombie Holiday.  It’s a heartwarming classic!

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Duck Dynasty

Six words: Professional victims screeched in synthetic pain. Continue reading

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Ron Is My Hero!

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