Shameless Self Promotion Time

For the most part these hallowed pages here at Complex Distractions are meant to highlight musicians and bands that I find interesting. Artists that inspire me enough to talk about them and spread their word across these internet wastelands. As well as talking about music, movies, books, and other art-related stuff, I talk about me. […]

A House Of Fun…A Gift In The Mail

So I’m sitting there on the couch minding my own business after a long day of driving(picked up my daughter from school for Christmas break Thursday) when my wife says “You got something in the mail.” Me? I got something in the mail? What could this be? So she hands me a small manila envelope. […]

Summertime’s Last Hurrah

In an effort to make sure our children would have a great memory of this summer break(besides mom and dad getting drunk with grandma and grandpa in a hillbilly mansion in the woods), my wife had me buy some tickets to Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio at the beginning of the summer. Well, […]

Vacation Nation : The Aftermath

So who told me that it would be a good idea to spend four days in some hillbilly mansion in the woods with my parents? Who was it? Cause I’m going to tell that person to go to Hell. In a hand basket even. So yeah, my four days away from it all wasn’t nearly […]

“I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times”

I didn’t know her personally. I’d see her in passing in the halls of the elementary school for Open Houses or the school Carnival. She seemed like an artistic soul. Tattoos, piercings, and a look in her eyes that said she saw things in a much different way than the rest of us. My wife […]

Ode To A Dog

It was the same every time I’d show up at their house. I’d walk into the side kitchen door, beer in hand, and I’d be greeted by him. He’d be about 7 feet away from me standing next to his kennel and food bowl. I’d give him a smile and set the beer on the […]

Father & Son

Tomorrow we celebrate my dad’s 67th birthday. He’s still going to the same building he’s gone to since July of 1964, getting paid to do the same job he went through a journeymen apprenticeship to do. He complains about it, sure. But regardless of how lousy the folks are that he reports to, or the […]

A Quick One…

I couldn’t tell you the last time I had a glass of Nestle Quick. Well, I can tell you now. It was 10 minutes ago. But before that it was years and years back. I have a little history with Nestle Quick. You see, my grandpa Jack was a salesman for Nestle. He supplied all […]

Fathers Day

It’s hard to believe we’re already at Fathers Day this year. 2013 is nearly to the halfway point. Three or so weeks left till the Fourth of July and a month or so of people celebrating their independence by intruding on my sleep by shooting firecrackers till the wee hours of the morning. Man, that […]

Ice Cream Man

Growing up in a rural area amidst cornfields and lakes in northeast Indiana I didn’t have access to a lot of things kids that grew up in town did. I couldn’t walk to the park. I couldn’t ride my bike to the newsstand and grab a comic book(or the latest copy of Metal Edge and […]