All Matters of Dopeness (Musings and Comedy in Erie's World)

🎶 Let's talk about sex baby, let's talk about you and me, let's talk about all the good things and he bad things that could be...let's talk about sex.  Let's talk about sex.  🎶 That's right.  This is the "R" rated edition of Erie's World.  I'm hell-bent on getting it in.  No pun intended. And...just joking a bit, but since sex is always a hot topic and because since people are either always doing it, ya know--the sex, or thinking about doing it I figure we can at least talk about it.  Well, we can scratch the surface by looking at a few possible precursors to sex:  attraction, pheromones, and Hennessy.   Attraction, pheromones and Hennessy (or brown liquor in general) each have he capacity to affect your feelings, and feelings dictate actions for a lot of people. Even though this is based on a person's individual make up, I don't think we can deny that attraction, pheromones and Hennessy each have the capacity to increase certain...

"Platonic friendship works best between members of the opposite sex when at least one of them is gay..." That's what my married male friend told me a few years ago after one of my "platonic" male friends started acting crazy.  Maybe there is some truth in the statement, though?  Historically, I have maintained that not only were co-ed platonic friendships possible, but were actually normative but I've changed my mind.  Pheromones is a helluva drug.   Maybe its possible, but not so much.  Sure, there are times when two friends are low key feeling each other and end up together like the movie  Brown Sugar (rare unicorn moments) .   However, it is more likely that two friends have some weird love story playing out based on mutual attraction and basic smashing (where one person doesn't want much else) like in the video  Half Crazy  by Musiq, where one person is lying about just being friends like in "Just a Friend" by Biz Markie, or where two peo...

Last year was rough.  Most of us agree with the memes going around that say "Forget 2016". In fact, we started giving 2016 the side-eye when David Bowie died, and by the time Phife Dawg died and Prince died, we were pretty much done with 2016.  The next thing you know the whole country took a "L", suffered a loss, with Trump being elected, and with Zsa Zsa, Rickie Harris and George Michael dying towards the end we are all like "Forget 2016".  Truly, 2016 was the year of taking a loss, the year of the L.   With that said, some of these non-grim reaper-type L's people took for loss of love or unrequited love in 2016 were well deserving or simply a part of life, not warranting dramatic displays of grief, and yet folk were straight clowning! So...while we are gathered here today to talk about this thing called life, we also have to talk about how some of y'all need to learn to take those L's correctly in 2017.  Consider this a crash course on the e...