the curmudgeon comes out at night

It’s late, I’m tired, I’m stressed, I’m unsatisfied. My angst is burbling up from the angstfactory deep in my gorge and is running, in an unattractive fashion, out of my fingers and all over the keyboard of this goddamn laptop. Here is but a fraction of my Shit List! ONE. The phrase “get out of…

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disappearing lady

The protected “devil’s cake” posts are daily accounts of my fitness and exercise regime that I began more than 6 months ago. This journal seems to be a useful element in the process, tedious as it is. I don’t know if I’ve had any major revelations — just that weight loss is hard, I have…

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antici … pation

I have a hard time not saying antici … pation just like that. Thank you, Rocky Horror Picture Show. There are so many complicated and not-terribly-enjoyable things in my life. But here are three things I am looking forward to: The Arizona quarter! It’s exciting now that we’re up to Wyoming and Montana. Movin’ out…

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4meme

As I recover from my annoying chest cold and accompanying laryngitis, that for three days has made my voice break and squeak like Peter Brady, I trudge out this meme. I’m so wiped out from the cough cough COUGHing that I cannot muster the wherewithall to make any active links, let alone craft an original…

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Crinkles McClinsky Abloggin

…in other words, my darling Andrew decants his latest brain-flowers in this, the latest guest post. Peeling Thunder warned us of coming storms. The raven hovers nearby when he is not sitting upon my Fury looking into the reflecting glass. Great in mythology, feared by the other springtime birds with newly hatched babes, the black…

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