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Flange: The Gargoyle’s Back Story
[I introduced you to my new co-blogger, a gargoyle named (well, his name is pronounced this way) Flange, just the other day. In this, his inaugural post, Flange wanted to give you some idea how he got where he is, i.e., as a professional gargoyle. When and if needed, I'll interject brief commentary and/or supply [...]
Attach Imagination to Mouth. Turn Ignition. GO.
When my niece was a couple-three years old, she went through this engaging stretch of weeks, maybe months, during which she improvised neverending stories. For some reason these tended to involve creatures like the Frankenstein monster, Dracula, and so on. (That may have been attributable to my sister’s macabre sensibilities.) For instance, a story (told, [...]
Ear Job (3): Tinnitus
[This is the next installment in what appears to be a series of ongoing posts about my experiences with ears, hearing aids, and hearing in general. If you missed the earlier bits, feel free to backtrack to Part 2 (on hearing aids); there's a link there to the first part.] While preparing to write this [...]
Meet the Co-Blogger
So, all right — I didn’t post an entry yesterday. Well, let’s just say that after last week, when I posted not one but TWO entries on not one but TWO separate days*, I thought, y’know, I could afford to relax. As those of you who (like me) try to post something every day already [...]
Aging Gracefully, and Otherwise
At least in the drafts I’ve done so far, the work-in-progress, Grail, uses a rotating point of view from mostly elderly characters. Because I’m not elderly yet myself (though I will be if I don’t work on it faster!), and knock on wood still fairly healthy, it’s tricky to tell the stories from inside the [...]
On the Inside, Looking Out
From whiskey river: Stone Go inside a stone That would be my way. Let somebody else become a dove Or gnash his teeth inside a tiger. I am happy with a stone. From the outside the stone is a riddle; No one knows how to answer it. Yet within, it must be cool and quiet [...]
The Internet and Dogs
I was working on the weekly whisky river-driven rumination — which I’ll deliver a little later — when I came across something I just can’t keep to myself. Actually three somethings. And *WARNING*WARNING*: these are spit-take funny. Most recently, and the item which led me to the other two, we have this: an Open Letter [...]
Bart Seinstein
Today’s going to be one of those days, I can feel it already, with a dozen smallish separate workloads (worklets?) piled like rubble against the non-existent door of my office at the day job… A major embarrassment of my life as a pop-culture geek, TV watcher, animation fan, admirer of anarchic humor, etc. etc., is [...]
“A Guy I Know Once Told Me…”
The Internet’s rife with urban rumors. (Because, after all, the Internet isn’t just the information superhighway; it’s also the bullsh!t highway. The highway doesn’t care what sort of traffic it carries as long as every bit of it pays the proper toll.) But this post isn’t about Internet-based urban legends. It’s about offline word-of-mouth urban [...]
Dad (and Others), Somewhere and Sometime
(1) Me — during work hours. Just came up for a breath of air. (2) It’s me again. Actually working! See, I told you so! (3) Here I am still working. I don’t know how I can work so hard!! The above photos (taken somewhere in France, sometime in 1944), their captions penned in ink [...]
