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 »

I’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 »

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 »

Are 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 »

I 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 »

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

 And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree....

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

I’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 »

Sometimes one just has to ask....

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 »

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.

…1968, I’m… Read full post »

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....

It's getting… Read full post »

 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 »

Sadness

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 »

I 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 »

 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 »

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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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 notice… Read 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 waned wanton war whoops in Wichita Yiddish, just as I knew he would&… Read full post »

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 templates… Read full post »

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 in… Read full post »

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 all… Read full post »

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 »