I am CuTRis

...and tomorrow.

I went to one of those Japanese restaurants where they cook in front of you last night (on a business trip).

It seems I am always getting junk mail. I get junk phone calls too. People even knock on my door and ignore the "no solicitors" sign in order to try to get me to give them money. Sometimes, though, the junk mail makes me laugh as it tells me to make things bigger or some other idiotic thing! Today I had an email from Wen Hair Care Products . I've been shaving my head since late in 2003, so my question is, Will it work on my back hair?

Cutris to Host Average Person Awards UnAssociated Press February 13, 2012 It was announced today that Cutris will host the upcoming Average Person Awards . With the numerous awards like the Grammys , Latin Grammys , Oscars , Golden Globes , etc., the Average Person Awards are long overdue! Curtis has experience from hosting the Caucasian Grammys on White Entertainment Television ... what??? Oh, sorry, white people are not allowed to have the equivalent of Black Entertainment Television or the Latin Grammys. For that matter, I don't think average people are allowed to receive awards for doing "average" things and living "average" lives. Cutris will not be hosting the Average Person Awards after all. We at the UnAssociated Press are sorry for wasting your time...

By Kevin J. Curtis No one remembered how the town had gotten its name. Let’s face it; the people who had named it had all died a long time ago. Now he was headed off to college. He didn’t know why he should feel self-conscious about where he came from. After all, he was a Kingbuttz; and the Kingbuttz family had been very influential in the town of Bastard Hollow for as long as anyone could remember. Bastard Hollow was the only place he had ever lived. That is, up until now. He was on his way to the big city where he had been accepted into Parnell University. He would be moving into a dorm on campus later that day. He was leaving everything that he loved behind—including, Mitzi Hershel Stanford; who was the prettiest girl in Bastard Hollow. He had been going steady with her for over two years. Their last meeting had been tense. Mitzi said she couldn’t wait for him. But he knew that he needed to get his education in Micro-Biology. Studying small insects and germs was all he had ever want...

We woke Saturday to a beautiful Hoar frost . Here is one of my photos.

In Pennsylvania, they say the Woodchuck saw his shadow this morning. Here in Minnesota it is too foggy (see photo) for that to happen! In the north, we can expect at least six more weeks of winter regardless of shadows, etc. Happy Groundhog's Day!

"It's so hard to choose a candidate in the Republican Primaries ," complained Jethro. "They all suck!" "You gots to look at it differ-runtly," said Cletus. "It's like when we is tryin' to get rid of the weevils before they wreck our crops." "Do tell!" said Jethro--suddenly interested in the intellectual reasoning of his friend Cletus. "Say we gots to have one kind of weevil on our farm and there ain't no two-ways about it," continued Cletus. "Only thing you got goin' fer you is that you get to pick which kind of weevil yer gonna' have to deal with." "Ya mean like a Boll weevil ? asked Jethro. "No," replied Cletus. "These is hypo-thet-icul weevils." "What kind?" asked Jethro. "Pretend the Republicans on TV is like weevils. You got a big giant weevil , and you gots a much smaller weevil ", explained Cletus. "Now if'n you could pick what ki...

The recent story of a Muslim family convicted of killing their three teenage daughters is simply outrageous! This crap happens in other countries and now it happens in Canada and the USA too. I may be "just an infidel to the radical Muslims , but I will go on record as saying that if you can kill your own daughter and blame it on your 2000-year-old set of religious beliefs, it is time to get a new religion! My Ojibwe friend Joe says, we don't own our children, they are on loan to us from the Creator . I can't believe how some cultures and religions still devalue women with backward ideas that restrict their freedoms. Such things include, making them cover their faces, not allowing them to drive or go out in public without a male relative escort, or charging money to a prospective husband to buy their daughter for marriage. The idea of killing a woman just because she wants to live a normal life , or because somebody else's warped perception is that the woman was t...

My mom wanted us to baptize our son and neither my wife nor I have any objections. In fact, I was raised Christian and my wife who is from another culture agrees that our son will learn that he is multicultural. Imagine my surprise to find out that baptisms are political and churches won't baptize a baby unless the parents are members! I should have researched this better before making my request to my local church. I had assumed that a baptism was about the soul of the baby. Why was it that I grew weary of church politics in the first place??? Oh yes... I remember in Sunday school when the "teacher" grabbed a kid by the throat (granted he was a goof-off). This was just one of the contradictions I saw as I was being schooled in religion . This doesn't necessarily mean that I am a non-believer. I just don't like the hypocrisy in organized religion! KJC

My wife and I left our baby son with grandma and grandpa so we could go out to lunch together. It was really nice to have a chance to talk to each other and not have the baby cry while we were eating. But of course we were already missing him when we were backing out of the driveway to leave for the restaurant...

CBS Producers say that when Charlie Sheen was removed from the TV show, Two and a Half Men , that the show was saved by Ashton Kutcher . REALLY??? (Michael) Kelso ??? Because I think the show was already getting too raunchy as it was, and now Kutcher, who only seems to be able to play one type of character (i.e. Kelso)-- just like Tommy Chong can only play a stoner has brought the show to a new low. Let this show die. KJC

In the United States, the Republican Party has sprouted a faction that calls itself the Tea Party . With notable members such as Sarah Palin and her "twin" Michelle Bachman, The tea Party has taken the name of an important event out of America history, called The Boston Tea Party and defiled it by using it to define their political strategy to keep President Barack Obama from getting anything passed or making any progress. The idea is to never agree and never compromise on any issue that the Democratic Party wants. What the issue is or whether or not the idea is good or bad has taken a backseat to stubbornly rejecting anything that is not insanely conservative. For this, I want to say "Thanks a whole lot."

I haven't been making many entries lately, as I have been otherwise occupied. Most of my time is taken up working in the data warehouse. Then I get to be dad and husband. Recently I learned about the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest . I was just finishing my latest novel, "Lapse of Humanity," and I had to do a hurry-up edit and get it entered. I'm trying to figure out how to get more time, as time seems to move faster... all the time !

I saw the most annoying car ever tonight. The poor woman was driving a Buick down the road behind me with the alarm going off! You know... that stupid alarm that goes off on some car everyday--somewhere close enough for you to hear it. When I hear that sound, I always say to myself, "Oh no! Somebody is stealing a car!!!" Ha! ha! No I don't! I was just foolin' you! After I got onto the freeway, the Buick with the honking horn and lights flashing on and off went past me. "Man," I thought. "That car is sure annoying!"

I quite like the song, A Thousand Years by Christina Perri .

Yesterday on my bank statement there was a charge I had never seen before. It was a check image charge. After calling TCF Bank and going through their horrid computer phone system I finally got a live person. She told me that the pictures of my checks that I've gotten on my monthly statement for the last nine or ten years now costs $1.95 per month. I had that removed, as I know what my check looks like and can take a picture of it myself if I need to. So apparently I could be charged a $10 maintenance fee if I didn't use my debit card enough or if my balance was too low. That settled it. My son's new bank account will not be at TCF! I may have to follow the Un-occupy Big Banks movement.