Wailin’, Flailin’, and Failin’ for Palin
There is some nonsense that got published recently in The Los Angeles Times that is remarkable only in the fact that it is difficult to discern if the op-ed is genuine or well-crafted satire. I shall...
View ArticleA Journey To Hakodate: This Isn’t On the Tours
This is a yarn for the easily amused or so desperate for stories that have to be told in such ponderous detail that only one of my tales will suffice. Ah, seekers of the second aspect are in...
View ArticleAllegorically Metamorphosizing
I used to be proud of my gun, I cleaned it and shot it each day. But when I saw what others had, I looked at my gun with dismay. For my gun was well-used, It had been used quite a lot. And I had steady...
View ArticleApril Fool’s Day – A Pictorial Puzzle
Call it associative cognizance or the sophomoric tittering of a post-adolescence adolescent, but on this Day of Great Occasion, I have a puzzle: what does one picture have to do with the other? As...
View ArticleWaddle ‘Round the Wadi
Here is a little ditty I wrote as a faux Gilbert and Sullivan show tune. If the metre seems a bit strained, it’s because the music’s changing time signatures are tortuous! It works, believe me. So here...
View ArticleHail to the… *psst, what’s their name again?*
I really do not want to keep writing sports-centric pieces, but the inclination for cracking wise got the better of me and I decided to scribble a little nonsense about the NFL team in the sights of...
View ArticlePhotoshop Enables My Dark Side
Photomanipulation of images from Getty Images and Lucasfilms, LTD. While there is certainly plenty that I could yip about concerning the cesspool that is the current state of American politics and...
View ArticleA Trip to the ASMR Barber
As I have perused and abused YouTube for many years – I no longer maintain an account since Google+ took over – I came across the all-time greatest video which is Baba, the cosmic barber in Pushkar,...
View ArticleIt Rained in South Carolina
For those of you who might give a crap – and I know most of you don’t, it rained here today. Now most of you conscious folk who happen to live in the area will know that. So why am I wasting your...
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