by the Night Writer The Rev. Mother does fine work, doesn’t she? It must be the inspiration. It was a productive weekend and we finally got the new blog home up and running. I’m telling you, it was exhausting watching Kevin hammer at my keyboard for most of the afternoon Saturday as he managed to [...]
The Mall Diva, Tiger Lilly and MD’s friend and singing-partner, Princess Flicker-Feather, are taking a hip-hop dance class once a week. I don’t know what hip-hop dance involves but since Easter is coming up I thought they might be working up some special choreography. Nevertheless, when the Diva said Princess Flicker-Feather was coming over to [...]
With Valentine’s Day coming up I thought I’d give you less romantic guys out there a good suggestion for a Valentine’s Day gift for your significant other. (I know, I know, you look at me and then you look at the Reverend Mother and you think, “Da-yum, that guy has just got to have some [...]
by the Night Writer Back in the day, when we were closer to the land, people could predict weather or gauge temperature without thermometers or technology by observing the behavior of animals, insects, clouds or clairvoyant joints. We don’t rely on natural observation that much anymore, but I have observed one way, in this recent [...]
Brrr. On these cold days we’ve been having I really appreciate a nice, hot cup of coffee. I will also admit that my coffee tastes have become more refined in my latter years. I actually didn’t become a coffee drinker until I was in my 20s and a girlfriend got me started. She also gave [...]
I was wearing my dark charcoal-colored suit at church Sunday and at one point as I reached my left arm across my chest I could feel a stiff piece of paper in the inside pocket of the jacket. I didn’t need to reach into the pocket to see what the strange weight over my heart [...]
It’s about the blood banging in the body, and the brain lolling in its bed like a happy baby. At your touch, the nerve, that volatile spook tree, vibrates. The lungs take up their work with a giddy vigor. Tremors in the joints and tympani, dust storms in the canister of sugar. The coil of [...]
One of the people I always look forward to seeing at our annual Inside Outfitters men’s fishing weekend is big Don Steele. Don is originally from Jamaica and still has his delightful, lilting accent to go along with being one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. His, “Heeey, Brudder John!” greeting is one [...]
Yo-ness, oops, I mean, AAARRRGGGHHHAAA!!!! It’s (argh) National (argh) Talk (argh) Like (argh) A (argh) Pirate (argh) Day!!!! Batten down the hatches! And yer sister! And any Bens that might happen to be wanderin’ around…. We’re about to go get some grub, and I’m sure there will be an opportunity to make ol’ Peg Leg [...]
Our internet service crashed Sunday morning and we were disconnected until mid-afternoon today due to a server problem in our area (and fortunately nothing expensive that we have to fix with our home set-up). It’s not like being chased out of your home by a hurricane or, say, having to pee in a bucket like [...]
