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Full-on pansy

Posted on February 16, 2013 by admin

I’ve watched Downton Abbey since day 1, but that doesn’t mean I’ve turned into a full-on pansy writing Downton Abbey fanfic.  The show actually irritates the crap out of me. I mean, the whole Mary and Matthew dynamic makes me … Continue reading →

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Tomb Stories: Apache cemetery, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma

Posted on February 9, 2013 by admin

Creepiness: 2 stars. Coolness: 5 stars   Way out on the far end of the Ft. Sill range, is one of the saddest cemeteries I’ve ever seen. This explains why: I ain’t buying the forced cheerfulness. This is not a … Continue reading →

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As long as it needs to be

Posted on February 3, 2013 by admin

Get your minds out of the gutter; I’m talking about stories. I’ve got one that took hold of me a couple of years ago, a historical fiction about the disastrous Narvaez expedition, and it ended up about 8000 words long. … Continue reading →

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The Toronto Hunger Games Champion

Posted on January 31, 2013 by admin

…is running for the US Senate. Help him get there.

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Good Lines

Posted on January 30, 2013 by admin

“The colonel was a disputatious individual, stubborn, easily driven to wrath, and possessed of many positive opinions, most of which were founded upon a bedrock of nearly invincible ignorance.”  Robert Sheckley, from his short story, A Suppliant in Space.

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The Adventures of Gracie the Wander Cat: Gettin’ comfortable

Posted on January 26, 2013 by admin

You know, before I guilted that D. Krauss guy into letting me stay with him, I was pretty much at home in the elements. Spent last winter under the deck out back and in a little hole I made for … Continue reading →

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Last August

Posted on January 19, 2013 by admin

Birds feeding, with the occasional assistance of a bat. Right over the top of my house. Birds and Bat3      

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Joffrey Charlemagne for US Senate

Posted on January 11, 2013 by admin

Okay, for those who haven’t watched Jason Smith’s web series, Losing Cable and Losing Cable 2, I gotta ask, why not? Go do that right now. For those of you who have, and are wondering what mad genius lies behind this brilliant, … Continue reading →

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Good lines

Posted on January 6, 2013 by admin

From Rennie Airth’s River of Darkness: “Increasingly solitary, he saw his life as all that was left to him: a tattered sail that might bear the wind but would bring him to no haven.”

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Should I call Father Karras or Father Moore?

Posted on January 5, 2013 by admin

Continuing the trend of a writer boring the crap out of you by writing about writing, I’ve experienced a rather rare event this week— a dream. Now, yes, like everyone else I dream all the time, quite vividly and in … Continue reading →

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