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Archive for November, 2009

It’s been about a month since we all had to suffer through the clear hoax that was the “Balloon Boy,” and the painfully protracted fallout that led to federal charges and talk of deportation, so that means that we’re due for another kid to steal our hearts and our attention.
I get it: we, as a people, [...]

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Ladies and gentlemen, there are certain questions in life that everyone asks, but no one seems to have all the answers to.  These questions are often contentious ones, and discussion of such questions invariably leads to flying fists and ruptured relations.  One such question came up at last week’s As Yet Unnamed Comedy Show (Tuesday [...]

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Children, I’ve frequently accused myself of making very, very bad decisions.  Last week, I drunkenly picked only players from the St. Louis Rams and the Detroit Lions for my fantasy football team.  On the same night, I accidentally picked both team’s backup quarterbacks, being as I had no idea what either team’s depth chart looked [...]

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Ladies and gentlemen, I know that Friesen Point has been dead for a while, but I am here to tell you that it is back, and in a big way.  There are going to be a few minor differences which I will lay out here, mostly matters involving organization:
1) There won’t be any more Top [...]

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Ladies and gentlemen, there may be nothing that bothers me more than when someone new in my life learns that I have roots in the Mennonite church, and then they invariably ask “so you’re Amish?”  It’s not that I have some sort of pride about my heritage, it’s just annoying.  It’s tantamount to the frequent [...]

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