Posts by hamblog
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…
Read Moredisappearing 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…
Read MoreProtected: devil’s cake: post 26
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Read Moreantici … 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…
Read More4meme
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…
Read MoreProtected: devil’s cake: post 25
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Read MoreCrinkles 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…
Read Morepeculiarities of the place in which i grew up #4
Constant rumbling in one ear other the other — trapped water from the many hours lived in the swimming pool. This water often led to various ear and sinus infections, so the feeling of lying on a bed, with head dangling upside down, letting the antibiotic ear- or nose-drops properly get absorbed, is also a…
Read Morepeculiarities of the place in which i grew up #3
Peculiarities of living on the side of Camelback Mountain: The dentist’s castle. My house, on Saddlerock Drive, was directly below the mountain from Copenhaver Castle, built by a Phoenix orthodontist. I was a kid when it was being built, and my utter enchantment at the whole idea made me overcome my lack of adventurousness —…
Read Morepeculiarities of the place in which i grew up #2
A combo of dry desert air and deep seventies shag carpet led to constant, chronic, zingy static electricity. As an attempt to discharge the static and avoid the pop! dammit! zap, we flicked doorknobs, walls, and jambs before touching our tender handflesh to their surfaces. As a result, our fingers on the nail-side tended to…
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