We had a few beautiful balmy days, so I went over to the little lake nearby to check on the 20-30 Canada geese that are spending the winter there. They’re so stately, yet gentle creatures. I coaxed a few of them to take bird seed out of my hand. What a thrill. Of course one […]
I love looking at old Life magazines from the 40s and 50s, especially at the stuff that was being promoted by advertisers to the average American. Maybe that’s why I enjoy “Mad Men” so much. I did a short series of collages with comic strip dialog, and have to kick myself to keep me from […]
One of the things I do to teach myself to draw is to copy simple drawings. I liked these two fish I saw in an old comic strip. The catfish was wearing a top hat and smoking a cigarette, but I didn’t put that in. My first drawing wasn’t bad, but things went downhill from […]
“Imagine a dish like this married to a mug like Benny McBride. The naked and the dead” (Detective Danny Ryan, Armored Car Robbery, 1950.
“What I like about you is you’re rock bottom. I wouldn’t expect you to understand this, but it’s a great comfort for a girl to know she could not possibly sink any […]
Would that I could drive a wooden stake through that rat’s heart and see him turn to dust like the vampires in the movies do. Alas, I forgot Rat will have its revenge whether alive or dead.
As a final resort before paying a professional exterminator to pipe our rats away, we decided to put packets […]
My brain moved slowly from dreamland to the dim twilight of pre-awakening. I felt distant toes plowing through my tangled curls on my pillow, twisting and pulling. An urgently telegraphed message read: Stop. The rat is in your hair.
I bolted into a sitting position and nearly sprained my neck as my body twisted swiftly to […]
in my glass….tiny bubbles. was that Willie Nelson or Don Ho?
The cola bubbles are for celebration. I’m finally back with my very own computer after immigrating most of my files to my new MacBookPro. My other laptop was so old I still had Classic applications on it. We have a wireless network in the house, […]
Green Clearwing Dragonfly
I’m fascinated by bugs, especially when I can view one close up. I don’t know why I grew up disliking them, or why I was terrified of spiders. (I still despise cockroaches, though.) Is it a Western cultural thing to see insects and reptiles as evil things? It seems most of the aliens […]
Squirrel with pecan. I’ve heard people saying it’s going to be a cold winter in North Texas, but really, Senor Squirrel, is that any excuse to stuff your face this way? And Dude, your oral hygiene sucks. Brush those teeth once in a while. Eeeeew!