I'm sorry you're not a winner.

Originally published at www.mydestroyer.com. You can comment there.

So, this local highschool student, 3 credits away from graduating ,was expelled because he wrote a story about a female student brutally killing one of her teachers. He wrote the fictional account for his CREATIVE WRITING CLASS. Um, I'm no law expert, but I'm fairly sure this violates the guy's charter rights of freedom of speech. And besides, if we are to view this story as a cry for help, or a red flag that this guy is a bit of a nutter, shouldn't he be kept in school to undergo counseling or something, rather than kicking him out to do nothing all day?

In other news, I got an email from this pub I frequent. They emailed to inform me that I had won an evening of VIP treatment for a group of my friends. We would get a private room and free appetizers. At first I thought, wow, I never win anything! Then my mind began contemplating which of my friends I would invite out for such an event. Immediately I began gloating to my buddies who had laughed at me the pub when I dropped my business card off in the fishbowl in the hopes of winning a free entree or something. Well, it seems my other friend who also dropped off a business card had also "won" this evening of fun at the pub.

Now we're thinking they just tell everyone that they've won. Why not? The "free apps" amount to a couple of nacho platters, and all evening the party will be buying drinks, so really, the house wins! Not only do they make mad money of drinks, the pub always looks crowded with all the parties.

Anyway, I highly doubt I'll claim my "prize". Though the fish and chips was tight!

On the kissing chaos/art side of things, I've got to apologize for the tardiness of my "free art giveaway drawings". I definitely got more requests for sketches than I had anticipated, and it's been rough juggling work and the free drawings. The light at the end of the tunnel is in sight, and everything should get mailed off this week. I'll let all of y'all know when the art is in the mail!

Over the weekend I did some hanging out at a skate park, and checked out a good ol' punk rawk show. It was good fun. I felt like a kid again. I'm sure I was the "old guy" in the pit, but whatever. Twas awesome.

ADC