What I believe
I am not a natively good person. I am a manufactured good person, a Thing brought back from 800 years ago to expiate some great unknown sin. The Witch of Yellow Springs said this about me many years ago, and I believe h
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P. J. Dames
Lady Phyllis Jaqueline Dames She could cook up a page turner all right. Her detective was a nihilist poet named Alan Dogleash. I wrote about him at Moon Books in Shuteye Town 1999 . You can find the novel Bounden Duty here . Why is she leering at me?
The 2000 Presidential Election
…As covered by my first blog, “Enough’s Enough,” in the Year 2000. This is only a link because the original resides in one of two websites of mine Facebook banned in toto years ago. The title is “ The ‘Crazy’ 2000 Election .” Feel free to look around at other parts of the site. 500+ posts about all kinds of subjects, many of them not at all political. You can find it in my book Gloves Off. Just a tick over five bucks. Hell of a deal.
Michael Caine and Johnny Cash
Why would I confuse these two? One a southern redneck and one a cool, calm, and collected Cockney. Good call. Bad call. Wait to the end to see.
The First TransSpecies Controversy — Woodchuck vs. Beaver
WE IDENTIFY AS BEAVERS The Beaver is, well, the Beaver. What more can you say? The other one has many names, including a French one, siffleux , but also many pejorative nicknames, including land pig, groundhog, monax, chuck, whistlepig, thickwood badger, Canada marmot, and even the blatantly speciesist land beaver. [EDITOR: We did not mean to drop you in the middle of a firestorm between combatants who are as hard to tell apart as Transgenders and Transvestites and, you know. If you scroll to the end of this post, you’ll find two excellent Wiki descriptions of the two (or more) species in conflict here. We apologize for any confusion you’ve already experienced, especially you women, who react so emotionally to such kerfuffles.] There’s no football team called the Whistlepigs or Woodchucks. (There’s a hockey team in Winnipeg called the Siffleux , but local convention tends to mispronounce it as Siffylus.) Only one of many reasons why a new protest movement has bee...
Sometimes you have to tell people things
From a long way back… Memories of references to Harry , who was always me after all…