How to Make a Killing
Robert Crumb is an American cartoonist and musician who has a net worth of $20 million dollars.I wasn't feeling oh so well last night. I hadn't felt particularly well for a couple of days, and it was...
View ArticleOld Guy Talk
On Friday, I asked my mother if she would like to get some tacos for lunch. There is a place not far from her house that is part of a small chain, but the fish tacos are not awful. She said sure....
View ArticleAn Ancient Ritual
My memory is a failing thing. When I was getting my degree in zoology long ago, I realized I didn't like to memorize which was practically all that we did in undergraduate classes. We memorized...
View ArticleClarification
Yes, my memory is faulty, as impressionistic as those high altitude villages in Peru where mountain and structure seem organically intertwined, neither beginning or letting off, natural outcroppings...
View ArticlePisac
I've had some help remembering. Pisac. That was the Peruvian city. My art/travel buddy suggested that it was--because it was clearly printed on a sign in one of the photographs I posted. In memory,...
View ArticleSometimes You Just Can't Quit
I got out yesterday for a bit. An old colleague asked me to meet her at the art museum, and I said sure. I haven't bee to the museum for a long, long time. There are reasons beyond the pandemic for...
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One minute you're up, the next minute. . . .I spent last night trying to attach metal objects to my body to see if I had been magnetized. I spent the better part of last night stringing together...
View ArticleOh, Man. . . I Can't Even Come up with a Title for This One
I didn't take this photo. It was taken by a seven year old boy who had my camera. This is Henry. He was my longest relationship until about a year ago. He was my yard man for three houses and...
View ArticleBroke Down Tired
I went to dinner yesterday with only the 4th person I have seen out since the pandemic began. It was he I believed had given me Covid early on. Now I'm not so sure. He told me that he got Covid at...
View ArticleSleepwalking, Sleepwriting
I slept away most of Sunday. WTF? I am somnambulistic of late. I had to rise at three in the afternoon to do some marketing, but I never felt awake. My mother was coming at 4:30 for an Early Bird...
View ArticleMagoo
Are you anything like me, kids, astounded at the things you read that you've never heard of nor know anything about? It is not like I am illiterate, not like I don't pay attention to what is going on...
View ArticleThe Kilt
I met a fellow from the factory for lunch yesterday. He was coming off an acid trip from the night before. He'd just come back from a vacation trip to Las Vegas and to some mysterious town in Utah...
View ArticleJet Stream Extravaganza
I installed my bidet yesterday. Instructions said 8 minutes. Liars. They didn't calculate my ineptitude, I guess. But thirty-eight minutes later, I had everything connected and the floor mopped up....
View ArticleParty!
I may be no more chatty today than I was yesterday. I may have chatted myself out last night. We'll see. I met a group from the factory late yesterday afternoon for a birthday celebration. This...
View ArticleJuneteenth
Today is Juneteenth. Most Americans don't know what that is, I read. Hmm. Maybe it is the name that is confusing. It is like the number "fleventh." It is a linguistic trick. If it were called...
View ArticlePod Life
Where do I begin? Today is the longest day of the year, the first day of summer. I'm sure there are plenty of QAnon devotees who would question that. "How do they know? It can't be summer...
View ArticleThe Madding Crowd
I used to like to go out so that people could see me. Now I stay hone so that they don't. Maybe I can eat my way into a new diet. I'll just eat all I can of fruits and grains and vegetables, try...
View ArticleDept. of Mental Health
Dr. Mo, head of psychiatry at the Department of Mental Health. Apparently. Last night, as I prepared my evening meal, I pulled a fork out of the drawer and brought it outside to the grill. Then I...
View ArticleI Must Get Out
O.K. Just need to keep you informed of my television nights. Need to. Because I have relatively little else. But Holy Moses! (as young, hip medievals used to say), you gotta see this one!(link)And...
View ArticleA Week of Weird Documentaries and Photo Experimentation
I'll show you the result of my Black Cat Liberator camera work in a minute. I don't want to put it at the top of the post. As you will see--meh. After working for hours to make the picture, I just...
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