I’ve been watching the House of Representatives debate health care before voting on H.R. 3962, lovingly referred to as The Pelosi Health Care Bill. I don’t know why I find this debate[s] fascinating, but hey, I like watching glue dry and turtles. Is this history that I’m watching? I… Read full post »

NOVEMBER 6, 2009 1:40PM

Enough Even Flow.... My Jam Ain't Pearl

64px-ITunes_LogoI’m trying to remain calm. I’m intensifying iTune therapy hoping to be swayed, shimmied and satisfied. But even in the vertical, the horizontal just doesn’t adjust. I know what’s wrong and right; what goes around comes around, ask Mary Brown — Charlie Brown? Read full post »

NOVEMBER 5, 2009 12:47PM

Deconstructing Demons

 

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Deconstructing Demons 

 

The bricks in the wall are dancing on loose mortar.

Crumbling dust is collected in breath.

Darkness chokes on the nothing.

Understanding shines a brilliant hue.

Bleeding light need not be attended to,… Read full post »

NOVEMBER 3, 2009 6:54PM

Is Open Salon Losing Its Mojo?

200px-Mass_spring_damperAre you feeling the good vibrations, you know, the excitation? Does the creative mood elevate your soul? I’ve been warned that there’s a black mountainside bogarting bogartsville. But I only sense it — I’m so sorry Uncle Albert, you know I haven't done a bloody thing al/Read full post »

OCTOBER 29, 2009 7:01PM

All Hallows Eve with Pat Robertson

250px-Jack-o'-Lantern_2003-10-31I learned that Halloween is more than a confectioner’s celebration. The night of the pumpkin smashers and costumed cravers soon disappears as all the loving in our souls are sucked up succubus style with incubus intent. How one of the religious righteous might conjure up such a paradox,/Read full post »

OCTOBER 27, 2009 10:59PM

Oh... Let it Be

 

 

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  Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom….

 

 

 

 

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When the night is cloudy, there is still a light that shines on me.... Read full post »

 

imagesI’ve been reading much about why we bloggers do what we do. This reading has taken me on a journey, far away from the reality of my busy life, putting on hold my: talks with political leaders, multi-million dollar fiction career paid in nickels, awesomely awarded illustration care/Read full post »

OCTOBER 22, 2009 11:55PM

Questions 67 & 68 Plus or Minus...

Sometimes one just has to ask....

 

 

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Is sorry really the hardest word?

Instead of knocking on Heaven’s door, can you ring the doorbell?

Is a flat tire still round?

Who shot the deputy?

Is the whole truth nothing but… Read full post »

OCTOBER 21, 2009 1:39PM

Thoreau, Blind Owl and The Bear

Good memories are precious things. Sometimes they come to us at the weirdest of times, but come they do, and when relived, a resettling of the consciousness is obtained. All last night and this morning, I’ve been grooving on such a memory.

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OCTOBER 17, 2009 6:30PM

It's Getting So Much Better

Sometimes life is a trickster, sometimes it's a truth-teller. If you listen to the music in your heart, allow brightness to enter into your darkness, perhaps lost can be found. I pray the brightenss intensifies for a long, long time....

 

 

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OCTOBER 12, 2009 1:58PM

My Son...

 Little Lost Boy

 

 Little lost boy did you ride

a warm October’s breeze?

Confusion, whispers, silence.

Some say they saw you fly

away with the angels.

Little lost boy no one knows

your journey traveled far.

Questions, torment, sorrow.Read full post »

OCTOBER 8, 2009 3:20PM

Tangled Up In Blues....


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OCTOBER 6, 2009 4:12PM

Sadness

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Silence sings a sad refrain,

Its muted melody prattles at the river’s edge.

Pain persists in memories thought abandoned,

Sadness coaxes the phantom shadow

Deluding despair’s slow dance.

Life, death, matters not,

The heart is long cold.Read full post »

picture5I skipped the life fandango substituting cartwheels with serious sexy summersaults aimed at impressing sixteen vestal virgins plus one. They laughed ghostly giggle dribbles. I stood up, readjusted my boxer-briefs before briefly backtracking to where I was before the Buffalo wings buffet went a/Read full post »

OCTOBER 2, 2009 8:57AM

My Viral Nightmare Gets Cartoonish

 It seems that I'm on the mend. The viral villain has vacated. But left in its wake was a multitude of hallucinations fueled by fever, hunger and really good drugs. I'll be back writing soon, so in the meantime, I give you some of my hallucinations in cartoons.Read full post »

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009 1:00PM

A Viral Villain is Kicking My Butt

To all my friends, I haven’t been visiting OS land lately due to illness. When the cobwebs clear and the viral villain leaves me be, I’ll return to read, comment and enjoy. Being sick sucks!

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009 3:17PM

How Much...?

This morning I met a homeless man. He was rummaging through a communal dumpster— one of three in the condo complex. I heard him before I saw him. The morning light seemed hesitant offering perhaps a false sense of shadow and grayness. He didn’t noticeRead full post »

I pony-tricked Pavarotti, my appaloosa, into taking a roundabout road through the asphalt Amazonian jungle, hoping to get home before sunrise sunset. That wonderful polka dotted pony with zebra stripes nickered his neigh, but wanedbucking_app wanton war whoops in Wichita Yiddish, just as I knew he would&Read full post »

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 7:40AM

Go Ask Alice.... A Cartoon With No Logic

 
 
 
 
 
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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 8:58AM

Health Care Reformed?

Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Max Baucus (D-MT), announced that some sort of health care reform bill would come out his committee with strong non-bipartisan support. He outlined this bill by saying the major points were addressed with cool looking flowcharts, colorful PowerPoint templatesRead full post »

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009 3:17PM

Writer's Block

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 4:02PM

My song to the OS editors :)

Today, I tried to be nifty-nice in a niftilicious ninga way. Last night, I figured, formulated, fornicated, finalized non-feuilleton Feynman diagrams—written in Crayolafabulous cyan. My methodology materialized nicely; although, it was interrupted by a South Carolina ratfink erroneous inRead full post »

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009 3:14PM

Tripping On LSD And Near-Murder...

It’s a cool September afternoon. I'm exhausted, but instead of napping,  I’m sitting at my desk writing as I listen to Steely Dan’s Pretzel Logic. What’s keeping me awake is not insomnia, but rather a thirty-year-old memory that’s demanding equal time with allRead full post »

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009 2:22PM

Aphrodite Also Asks Why?

I need answers to the why. Confusion can and does confound me, but I like to know things: why is there fire in the mountains, lightening in the air? When God gave out rhythm why did he also give out Popsicle toes—mostly grape and orange.Read full post »