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Virginia is now Canada

Posted on March 30, 2013 by admin

I don’t believe in Global Warming. I don’t believe in “Global” anything: global economy, globalization, global stupidity…well, maybe that last. Mother Earth took about a million years of asteroid pounding and volcanic eruption, brushed herself off and said, “That all you … Continue reading →

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Four Rounds with Apollo Creed

Posted on March 16, 2013 by admin

I’ve made it into the quarterfinals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest, which is like surviving four rounds with Apollo Creed: you’re amazed you lasted this long, but don’t think you’re going much further. I’ve perused some of the … 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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Xmas got an upgrade

Posted on December 26, 2012 by admin

Just sittin’at home on Christmas Eve plying myself with mutant antihistamines, zinc, and whiskey in a futile effort to stave off a Satanic cold, when, about noon, it started snowing:   Nice. Although, Gracie didn’t think much of it: Merry Christmas!

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The World Ends Friday. Get in the Mood with Free Moonlight

Posted on December 19, 2012 by admin

Personally, I think the Mayans working on that calendar just knocked off for lunch, but, you never know. So, to prepare yourself, Moonlight is free today and tomorrow. If we’re all still alive on Saturday, then you’ll have to pay. … Continue reading →

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Indeed, it is

Posted on December 8, 2012 by admin

I got into a tweet with Chris Hill about Christmas decorations, and, well, here’s mine:   Take it away, Bart Simpson.

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You can’t go home again

Posted on November 24, 2012 by admin

Because I was in that neck of the woods last August (see The Last Book Sale below), I decided to visit my old neighborhood in Lawton, OK: Now, yes, I know, it’s Oklahoma, and the word “visit” isn’t usually associated, … Continue reading →

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Middlemarch

Posted on November 17, 2012 by admin

My review of this masterful, but, oh God, painfully long, novel is here.

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Hackwood Lane

Posted on November 16, 2012 by admin

  Some October moonlit night there comes through mist a time lost chaise, one horse’d, returning in gentle ghostlight from that far-off dance, crinoline flirt, fan-hidden face, and the young gray officer, Ivanhoe heart.   A field to the left … Continue reading →

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