Butter, Now With Sliced Bread!

It’s 11:45 Saturday night, and I have a 7 a.m. call time. So I guess this will be a short King William Parade and Festival post.
The rain that blew in last night brought an ungodly amount of humidity. Other than that, it was a great day, with clear skies and coolish temperatures.
The crowds [...]

The One-Legged Parakeet Will Wake Me For the Parade

Let me just begin by saying that I’m not a fan of Fiesta (what Barbara Renaud wryly and derisively refers to as “the biggest ten-day pachangalooza you’ll ever see”). For ten days people are roaming around in a disjointed daze, like runaway dogs lost in a neighborhood not their own. Traffic patterns are [...]

Prosodic Padding

I’m not feeling very chatty tonight. But for some reason I’m up late. So, I’ve decided to subject my blog readers to three failed short stories (hell, maybe they are stories in progress — things I’ll finish one day). Enjoy these raw first draft stalled abortions I’ve created within the last month.
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FRAGMENT [...]

Stink Bug on Guano

My latest NetFlix arrived this afternoon. For some reason I had never gotten around to seeing Living in Oblivion. It’s one of these movies about making movies that everyone who has seen has loved. Especially if they’ve ever worked in production.
I’d put it off because I’d assumed it was just goofy fluff. [...]

Masked Girls Evaporating into the Crowds

Friday felt like a Saturday. Not because my lifestyle allows much for a differentiation of weekend and weekday. The disparity was in the people around me.
Thursday night, after closing up a project at the Company, I got on the highway to head home. Around 9:30, while on the road, I got [...]