Islets of Langensham
If you do join up at Jennifer's Government, place your country in our new region called Islets of Langensham! I...

Free Republic of Quetzacoatl

Our motto is "If You Love Your Country, Give it Your Whole Heart" and we mean that literally.

Cat Crash

She walked to my knee and tipped off, landing on her face next to a spare keyboard.

A Milestone

Today was the first day of the post-Prozac era for me. I notice nothing spectacular.

Dreams
Some family member hands me a long, white envelope filled with silver Kennedy half dollars. I go to a place...

Update: Scattered and Trivial

Nothing strikes so hard as the square-headed hammer of boredom.

Happy Thanksgiving

May the only turkey at your feast be the stuffed and cooked one on the table

Just Outside the Chaparral

Every mop dog who yearns to be a wolf joins in the agonized whining.

Hanging Out

"If you don't speak the Truth courageously, then there is no way you can defeat a liar."

Which Christian Theologian Are You?

I'm not turning Fundie!

Homosexuality and The Divine Comedy

I support same sex marriage and discourage homosexual promiscuity in the same spirit that I discourage heterosexual promiscuity.

Movable Type Problem

I need a fix!

Roads Not Taken

There's something about those intervals when one has nothing but time on one's hand that leads one to forgo reading, writing, and other constructive activity for looking back over the map, for seeing where one has been and try to guess how we came to choose that route.

Simaholics Anonymous?

We realized that we were powerless over computers and that the lives of our Sims had become unmanageable.

Foehn

The roar and whistle is so loud, I can barely hear the leaf blowers the gardeners are using in a vain attempt to put back the leaves the clear storm had shorn off the trees.

Martyr for Religious Freedom

I just finished writing an article about a most unusual martyr -- a man who died not for his faith, but for the right of others to practice one with which he did not wholly concur.

Operating System Crash

I live!

It's Really Happening?!

Five people from Orange County confirmed for the Meetup in Tustin!

Slave Rebellion
Tracy lurks next to the computer these days, always convinced that I have something that she wants to eat. She...

Offer for Blog Friends

I am sure that the mention of my book in progress tantalizes at least one of you.

Blackout

One word -- Fuck! -- pushed forward from my mouth and, for a second, seemed to make everything flash on again.

Excerpt from Writing Practice

Most of my characters are neurotic.

Monday at the Writers' Group

Does one have to know what every symbol means? Does it have to be a symbol in the first place or can it be set decoration that tells you something subtle about the character's priorities?

Shame Us Into Peace?

Believe it or not, I did not find this link through blogdom's principal connoisseur of pornographic protest wKenshoW.

Atop Portola Hills

We got to this middling time when the air is still, the skies clear, there's a hint of warmth in the air, and yet I need a slightly thicker shirt or sweater.

9-11 and the Reichstag Fire

We've lost freedom and we've been told to smile smile smile.

For Kevin....

Kevin says that that mundane activities can be interesting.

Aztec "Day of the Dead"

Watch out for the Candy Man!

Boringly Busy

I suppose I could liven it up for you by describing each cut and paste operation, but I know the excitement would just kill you.

Gratitude

Thanks to all my friends who have given support and encouragement in the last few, difficult weeks of my life, especially those with whom I have had disagreements and yet still talk to me.

Out of the Spam Can

Ah, what a month!

Jesus Loves the Nigerian Scam?

Americans will love nothing more than helping some poor woman who has been saved from Islam.

Dove Canyon Reconsidered

Royalty for a fraction of the cost!

Dove Canyon

Dove Canyon is one of Orange County's larger "gated communities", full of insecure elites who tell the rest of us that we have nothing to fear when they are in charge here in America.

Face to Face with Conservatism

I don't know why I invited the confrontation.

Death and the Purple Plum

They haven't torn the heartwood from it: just given it a severe Marine Corps trim.

Suppressed in the USA?

Question: if Anne Coulter can openly talk about having liberals shot, why wasn't Vidal's piece publishable in the USA?

Temptation

It was ever so tempting, while entering names and information from my Mythology and Folklore of Death site, to include a few contemporaries among the death gods and their henchmen.

Looking to the Real President for Leadership

President Gore, if you say the word, the People will follow.

Sighs and Tappings

Life just isn't terribly interesting these days. This is the kind of stuff that I skip over when writing fiction

Must have been the Stern Looks

Which ArchAngel are you most like?

No Man is an Island But....

Irvine Toyota doesn't keep spare parts for aging Tercels on hand, so Lynn has monopoly of the truck until Wednesday.

No War in Iraq Meetup

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Storm Break

The clouds which lay upon the hilltop like gigantic leaking sponges drained themselves dry. All that was left above were ripped remnants of the storm.

Digging A New City of the Silent

I don't know that many of the friends I have found through blogging know about the site, though now and again I meet a fan who has discovered that the creator of City of the Silent and the wacko who writes this blog are the same.

Adventure in the Rain

It wasn't just raining: we were dead center in the precipitating cloud.

Day of the Dead 6

Near Immersion

If I went outside right now, I think I'd need an aqualung.

Chat Room

I've made amends. Please drop by and yap

Google Eyes - October

Sounds like the Mafia's getting involved

Baptism

Yesterday I saw my new psychiatrist for the first time.

Aortal - This Girl Thinks

Tuesday's an honest writer when it comes to her inner feelings. Though sometimes (as in this passage), she may let her fatalism get the better of her....

Bag-O-Meme

"Do you believe....?" "Do you believe....?" "Do you believe....?" What's Kevin trying to do? Give me religion?

The Seagull Meme

After much thought and reference to the fact that not a single one of the entrants offered me a bribe, I have decided to grant the meme to....

The Booing at Wellstone's Funeral

The Democrats can win if they validate the just anger that people feel about the stolen election, the war against our will, and other follies of the Bush Administration.

Dream
I dreamed that the last jerk I worked for was in my house. He walked up and taunted me. I...

Artist(s) Sought

I am about to redo the look....

Day of the Dead 5

"Of course the Dalai Lama came to mind. We couldn't, of course, use him because he was still alive. So someone suggested that we use his predecessor. But then we remembered he's supposed to be reincarnated. So technically, he's still alive."

A Clockwork Kitty

Tracy's at my feet, belching mews like a ticking clock.

The Manatee Thinks of that Swim....

After reading Crazy Tracy's blog, maybe swimming out to sea isn't such a stupid idea?

The Manatee Speaks from the Bottom

Thank you for your comments: they cheer me. Thank you for your links whether you put them on the first page or on the last: they help me find a few more people like you.

A Waver of the Hand

God damn it, Democrats. Where was the get out the vote?

It's the lack of Vision, Stupid!

People flooded to the support of the late Paul Wellstone when he put his fears of defeat aside and voted his conscience. They respected his courage. Wellstone had a program. The rest of the Party seems like a bunch of nodding dummies.

I did my duty

What the Democrats seem to lack is a sense of unity and purpose against a media machine. I fear many will give up now.

Day of the Dead 4

When the priest and his entourage entered the restaurants where the tourists munched on Mexican specialities which were carefully decontaminated of chilis, I wouldn't be surprised if they thought he'd come to deliver extreme unction.

God Bless America

....and guide us....

Eh....

I always liked Ben Franklin, myself. He was a writer, too. Why wasn't he included?

Election Eve

You should vote as if democracy itself depends on it," says the email from People for the American Way. I intend to do just that.

Day of the Dead 3

Drudgery and Mischance

As I rounded the bend where Interstate 15E becomes the Crosstown Freeway in San Bernardino, I regretted leaving my camera behind as a un-needed nuisance.

Day of the Dead 2

Day of the Dead: Our Altar and Joel's Closet of Skeletons

...We have posted pictures....

Day of the Dead 1

Our Day of the Dead Page 2002

Halloween Decorations

Cries

Tracy has taken to entering a random room of the house and crying.