The Gods Are Bored

At 2:00 in the afternoon, Donald Trump -- dressed in white shirt, bright blue tie, and dark suit -- boarded Air Force One with all the pomp ...

About three weeks ago, my area got hit by the Polar Vortex, which is basically a big swath of super-cold air. It was so cold that schools we...

Hello and welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" Always good to see you. I've got some muffins in the oven -- banana -- so drop by! ...

It's staying light a little longer. Have you noticed? This morning when I set off for work, the sky was pearly and a few birds were chir...

It's 4:45 p.m. and still bright daylight, so we are making progress. However, my heart is heavy today. One of my students who I had thre...

The thing I like best about quote-unquote New Age religions is that they aren't hide-bound. New frameworks can arise without the practit...

Can you believe it? The mid-terms are just now over, and already candidates are lining up to run against Donald Trump in the 2020 presidenti...

Hello and welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," your Pagan pathway to paradise! You know what's good about bored deities? If they...

When the Orange Menace was inaugurated, women of all stripes (except the Republican stripe) took to the streets and marched in solidarity. L...

Can you believe it? Barbie turns 60 this year. I actually think she looks younger now than she did in 1959. EXHIBIT A: BARBIE 1959 T...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," brought to you from the Great Blue Northeast since 2005! We've got millionaire neighbors here...

Good day, and welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" This is the site where we designate deities to duties that need to be done. Yes, re...

I think this is the 118th year that Philadelphia has hosted a Mummers Parade on January 1. Like many events in big cities, this parade beg...

Nothing fills me with gratitude and joie de vivre  quite like hiking. You see, I gave up hiking for years -- actually decades  -- and then...

This tumultuous year is drawing to a close, and that means it's time for another Mummers Parade! Philadelphia hosts an annual Mummers ...

Two weeks before Thanksgiving, I asked all of my students to look around the room and write something nice about everyone they liked in the ...

Some of you might know that I'm a school teacher. I've been full time for eight years now. For the first time this year, the senior ...

Don't you wish that criminals were sentenced according to the existential threat they posed? That way, an African American teenager sell...

Dear Readers, all six of you (bless your sweet, smart hearts), I am finally able to post "before and after" photos of the view fro...

If you didn't know it before we got Donald Trump as president, you know it now. Real estate developers are the biggest fucking liars on ...