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View ArticleAntifreeze Industry Agrees to Add Bitter Taste to Products-I
And another way to murder your spouse bites the dust. Filed under: Black Humor, Short Takes Tagged: antifreeze, how to murder your spouse
View ArticleAntifreeze Industry Agrees to Add Bitter Taste to Products-II
…Now if they could just add that bitter taste to my favorite fattening foods, the weight would really drop off quickly. Filed under: Black Humor, Short Takes Tagged: antifreeze, how to lose weight...
View ArticleI Don’t Care If It Rains Or Freezes
There’s a graffiti artist in the LA Fairfax district who has probably gained more fame in the last two days than in the rest of his artistic life by spray painting on a wall a silhouette of Lance...
View ArticleSlippery slope...
Reblogged from Pouring My Art Out: I think I have figured out why Republicans are so nervous about having a President who is half African-American in the 'White' House. It is that whole slippery slope...
View ArticleEvening Observation By the Quad
He stands on a stone bench near the bookstore, Bible in one hand. The other, outstretched, beckons the passing students. “He died for your sins!” They walk around him. “When was the last time you...
View ArticleDilemma
If you can’t write a concrete poem, Do you have a cinder block? Filed under: Humor, Poems, Remnants, Short Takes, Writing Tagged: concrete poems, writing block
View ArticleThe Clairol Girl
A mattress is only a mattress, and at 33 I’m not getting better. Only older. Filed under: Black Humor, Poems, Remnants, Small Town Life Tagged: "she's not getting older, Madames, she's getting better",...
View ArticleMemorial Fragments
He takes her head in his hands to kiss her a wet-tongue kiss and his fingers and mustache, even his saliva smell of marijuana. Then he arches and groans. He hasn’t noticed her lack of response. She...
View ArticleFun Things I Did This Weekend
Found an old book I had kept (A Short History of a Small Town, by T.R. Pearson) and reread it to see why I had kept it. Yep, It’s a keeper. In the 70s, I took a course at Cal State Long Beach called...
View ArticleWordPress’s Newest Addition
Nothing makes me feel more secure than adding another Google app. I refuse to “Google” anything! I use either GoodSearch, which earns me money for my charities, or Dogpile, which gets down to...
View ArticleLOVE TO ALL THE SECRET MOTHERS
I initially wrote this for last year’s Mother’s Day. I think it needs repeating, not because I wrote it but because there are a lot of hurting hearts out there. The Womb of the Unknown Mother You were...
View ArticleCHINA WINS AGAIN
At 68, I don’t wear a lot of makeup any more, and I haven’t used hair coloring in years. (I kind of like the silvery grey-blonde it is now). But L’Oreal has always been one of my go-to companies....
View ArticleI WANT THAT!
I love catalogs. All kinds of catalogs. Seed and plant catalogs. Everything-under-$14.95 catalogs. Pet supplies catalogs. Kitchen equipment catalogs. Car parts catalogs. Harbor Freight catalogs....
View ArticleNot So Pretty in Peach
Depression and I have been companions for years. Ever since Prozac was introduced, I’ve been on many different meds in search of that one perfect elixir which would finally cure me. The last daily...
View ArticlePretty in Peach, Continuation 1
Warning: This is not one of my better-written posts. If I took the time to make it so, I wouldn’t have written it. Well, R has to go back to Asia sooner than we thought so I’ve decided to hold at 1/2...
View ArticleNot So Pretty in Peach, Continuation 2
The vertigo came back again yesterday morning and stayed with me all day. Not really enough to cause immobility, just enough to make me slightly discombobulated and a little sick to my stomach. Still...
View ArticleWhere Is Peter Walsh When You Need Him?
It’s 2:30 a.m. and I can’t sleep. Earlier in the evening, R asked me if I was ready to give up living in one place in order to buy an RV and see the world. I said sure. Then he asked me if I was ready...
View ArticleNot So Pretty in Peach (NSPIP) 4–or Thereabouts
That title is way too long, and I keep getting it wrong anyway, so from now on posts about this particular topic will be named NSPIP and, hopefully, the correct continuation. And, unless something...
View ArticleDoom’s Blank Door
Ennui Tea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe, designing futures where nothing will occur: cross the gypsy’s palm and yawning she will still predict no perils left to conquer. Jeopardy is jejune...
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