The Map! The Map!
Guinevere wants me to write about her. Other characters wait their turn. Words fail me today, my fast-food-sized menu of a vocabulary and grammaticalarianiamistically-challenged phrases. The hallowed...
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The basement supercomputer has been acting up again. Sadly, it woke me up from cryogenic sleep, where I had been snoozing for over 25,000 years, resting in SpaceShip Earth while creeping in spirals...
View ArticleCut off my finger to spite my face
Can a government be completely “fired” for gross negligence and mismanagement, as if tens of thousands of sexual assaults in the military under your watch as Commander-in-chief wouldn’t be enough to...
View ArticleMachiavel, serenissimi regis
…or, megachurch as small-town surrogate. …or, when the devil’s your king, there’s hell to pay. …or, Shopping Malls: the last deserted cathedrals of the Capitalist religious order. Lee’s clones...
View ArticleA boy’s life, revisited
For those who are interested, here are the original pictures from the May 1962 copy of Boys’ Life: For me, the latest news is still an uneasy thought to accept. Knowing now what I didn’t know then,...
View ArticleAccents for the day
Carolina Outer Banks Appalachian Scottish Cherokee BONUS: Self defence lessons
View ArticleCan you divorce your clone?
SNAP! The rat trap clamped its plastic claws shut in the crawlspace of Lee’s home. Back on Earth, Lee returned to his favourite hideout, away from curious onlookers, far from paparazzi and their pesky...
View ArticleChoices: 1. Monsters; 2. Zombies; 3. Something else
What does “family friendly” mean to you? Out the fifth floor window of this hotel room, birds fly in the air or search a patch of grass for food. Hundreds of motor vehicles, parked or moving, transport...
View ArticleCat snacking
Our precious little cat, Erin, a 14-year old Cornish Rex, eats crunchy snacks with his remaining teeth and sits on my lap. Both his ears are curled after recovering from big blood clots never fully...
View ArticleArbitrary news
Hey, guess what! According to an automated message I was told, “You published your 2100th post on this blog”. But not at 2100 hours. BTW, there are 13447 days to go…not much longer until we get that...
View ArticleThat pale blue dot (no, not the DOT (dept. of transportation) that keeps us...
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The...
View ArticleAll categories most used uncategorized
A new online friend has shown me the “bucket list” of accomplishments she achieved, so far, in her short life — very exciting for her, and fun for us to read and learn. However, I don’t even know what...
View ArticleWreck-a-mech
[My patent lawyer has advised me not to describe my latest invention. I say "meh," whatever that means.] This morning, I finalised construction on my latest invention. I cannot provide pictures...
View ArticleThe deciduous forest is buzzing and chirping today
A yellow jacket, a sweat bee and a fly are chasing each other in the slit of sunlight that passes over the rubbish bin this late Friday morning. Getting permission to import them to Mars was no easy...
View ArticleRedirected thought patterns
Weeks (months?) ago, I deactivated my Facebook account, removing myself from the habit of reading posts about the lives and daily habits of close to a thousand people, a few I’ve known since early...
View Article20,790 spam messages in queue
The best way to see where unintended circumstances will lead you is to take a cynical approach to your serious disposition. Then, the future is the moment you’ve been waiting for, planning, biding your...
View ArticleDecanter handle: the truth
Intimacy has more than one definition. Intimate details. Intimate relationship. A polyamorous person intimates intimacy in public and in privacy. In the span of a few hours, one watches the intimacy of...
View ArticleHere’s the suit but where’s the tie and cumberbund?
While traveling through outer space, do you get a suite with your suit or just a micro hotel room?
View ArticleBut how many women fully support the idea of a patriarchal system and want...
To get hit with the blinding headaches of a major sinus infection in the middle of summer (but during the coldest days in decades), hands shaking and body not able to sleep due to intake of suphedrine,...
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