The cats got to my bond paper. Anything I use to write on that isn't college rule paper may contain urine.


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Sometimes, while watching TV, I come up with brilliant ideas for the blog. At least my ideas feel brilliant in my head. From time to time, depending on what I’m screening at the moment (as I’m sure movies and current events on TV have a lot of influence in my writing) I’ll have a pen and pad ready for jotting down my most blasé brain activity. I do ( Read more... )

The Pony Express trail

What will they think of next? Glasses that slow down time so that people can see the way flies (insect: mosca domestica) see flyswatters zip past them in slow motion. How might that work? Remove glasses. Watch recording on phone display. Instant replay in slo-mo so one can see each and every car go by, with enough time to ( Read more... )

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Here are three music videos I never tire of listening to:

1. Fernando (cover) by Cher
2. Zombie by the Cranberries
3. Come on Eileen by Dexi’s midnight runners

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The eighties and channel surfing late night, insomnia suffering, couch potato shows was a disparaging provocation which ended at 1:3o AM. If I managed to fall asleep during the late late show, I would usually wake up to Live at the Apollo.

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the plot thickens

baby to become a published author in 22

did I mention that I've been writing myself into the plot of
Black House as I read? It's really the only way I can force
myself to stay focused and interested in the book's slow start.

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Murder and supposed kidnapping
A white man, who gave his name as Jo Wilder, came here about 26th or 27th of September, called on several of the free colored people here, and wished to hire them to go to Des Moines City, where he and his brother had a hotel and farm - some to work on the farm and the others in the hotel. On the 27th he ( Read more... )

… the kind responsive interaction that goes on in entry threads. It's like, I don't jaw flap kindly with strangers, but that's not true. I'm a kind person with strangers. I have my limits though, and since I've convinced myself that I swear as a result of possibly having a touch of Tourette's Syndrome, I usually go about my business very quietly ( Read more... )

I don't know about you, but it's just too coincidental when I decided
to go to lunch at the same time the law enforcement officers out of
uniform decided to stand in front of the fast food joint I was eating
at that day.

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