The First Post:

This first post is dedicated to a delightfully hilarious (although not for pietist ears) book entitled $*&% My Dad Says. Imitation is the best form of flattery, so they say (whoever "they" are anyway). And in the spirit of good flattery the inspiriation for this blog struck me while listening to the audio book version the other day driving back from Venice Beach with my wife, daughter and sister (names forthcoming). Now, my mother would never be caught dead saying the kinds of things that Mr. Halpern says. However, she is very good at sending random text messages (with little fault of her own) which usually end up horribly butchered by that bloody auto-correct feature that we all would love to smash into oblivion if it weren't for the expensive replacement phone fees. Yes, of course it can be turned off, but then this little blog would not exist and my family would not have nearly as much fun enjoying the memorable mishaps of Mary's (that's my mother) text messages. So, enjoy the texts. And by all means, if you (yes, be honest we've all done it at least once) have any rather awkward, hilarious, ordinary or completely random text message mishaps of your own feel free and share. After all, that's what this blog is all about: spreading the joy and the bad grammar.