Blind Fog

"What’s that, Riley? You went outside with grandpa to feed the dog and you couldn’t even see the doghouse from the porch? I know! It’s a blind fog! We were lucky to have gotten to grandpas before it moved in! What’s that, Riley? Well yes… maybe this is like… Read full post »

(the fourth installment in a series of inaccurately headlined random synapses)

Fun Facts You Should Know!

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original film "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white. In the original film "Smokey and the Bandit" Burt Reynold's mustache was actually Wi… Read full post »

(the third installment in a series of inaccurately headlined random synapses)

Fun Facts You Should Know!

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days straight, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. And you still would not have beaten my ex-wife's record.

Every time…

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When I say "rediscovering" I don't mean I actually lost sex or forgotten where I put my sex. I always kept my hand in the game, if you know what I mean. I mean rediscovering a sexual relationship with another person. Which includes all of the accompanying baggage such as actually… Read full post »

(the second installment in a series of random synapses)

Dateline--Providence, Rhode Island
A nursing home’s pet, Oscar The Cat can accurately predict a patient’s imminent death by cuddling up to the dying moments before they pass away. Staffers say that Oscar’s presence allows the pa… Read full post »

He struggles in his hospital bed. His skin is waxy and ashen yellow, the hue of old newsprint. The paleness accentuates the brown liver-spots on his hands. Those hands are strapped to the rails of his bed to prevent him from removing the oxygen tube from his nose. Tubes and wires… Read full post »

In the midst of all of the vitriol surrounding health care in America, at ground zero in the animadversion concerning costs, are real flesh and blood people. Us.

"It is impossible to care for the health care poor without seeing the faces of the people." John E. Curley Jr.:President The… Read full post »

New Orleans. A song by David Rovics about the Katrina disaster and its aftermath.

Loneliness is a clever cunning cat
It waits for the night
When the green silhouetted trees
Go black against the sundown sky
When the blood of the sun
Is drained from the clouds
Leaving them dirty pieces of gray

Loneliness grows
Sending down roots
Into the private parts
Of your mind’s hidden garden
Making… Read full post »

_{There are authors, there are writers, there are poets… I am a photographer. As will be evident in this trifling attempt at a short story. Being new here at OS I have to shake my head in amusement as I find my silly stupid stuff gets more attention than my heart… Read full post »}

This song is based on the fact that every woman I’ve been with has been a nice stable decent sort - and they always leave my ass. Then I watch Jerry Springer and it’s always the same show- different people but the same show. Some unemployed total loser of a guy is married… Read full post »

Cyclopic issued the challenge. "Name ten poems that have touched you. And just to make it interesting, work from cold memory. No Googling." Cyclopic also wrote " You may be struck by the lack of poetic sophistication in my choices." That sums it up for me too. So in no particular… Read full post »

This is a poem with nothing to say
No reason to exist but I wrote it anyway
Bored at my desk on a Friday night
I opened my computer and started to write
6 lines, a – a, b – b, c –c
A simpler rhyming scheme there could not be

This poem plows on ponderously
Perhaps,… Read full post »

_{for Michelle}

You sigh before the mirror
and tell me that
your body is not beautiful
I can only hug you
to let you know
how wrong you are

If you could see yourself
through my eyes
If you could see yourself
through my hands
and through my body
you would know

Beneath my hands
your small breasts
are perfection's pri…

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This is my infantile response to Mary T. Kelly's post " The Elusive G-Spot...Does It Really Exist?"

http://open.salon.com/blog/marytkelly/2009/07/25/the_elusive_g-spotdoes_it_really_exist

_{(This will make no sense to those who are younger than 55. But those of us who learned to read with the "Dick and}… Read full post »

The Big Sex Talk

The horror… the horror. I'm 58 and I still haven't figured it all out myself. So how can I explain it to a 13 year old?

I had my 13 old with me for the past three weeks. I am divorced and his mother has primary custody.… Read full post »

One of my daughters (college age) HATES to cook and she can't stand to touch raw meat. Normally she will only make boxed Mac and Cheese and microwave pizzas, but this is one she will do.

BEYOND SIMPLE

Ginger Poached Chicken

a 3 to 5 pound whole chicken

3 cans… Read full post »

Fun Facts You Should Know!

The smallest book in the Library of Congress is Old King Cole measuring just 1/25 inch by 1/25 inch, or about the size of a period at the end of this sentence. The story is very weak on character development.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly… Read full post »

1. Who was your FIRST prom date?

Lynn Str*d* . I was a total loser geek but she loved me anyway. We went to both the junior and senior hs proms

2. Who was your FIRST love and do you still talk with him/her?

The afore mentioned Lynn Str*d*.… Read full post »

intimate torture

from the touch of a woman

exquisite pleasure

Foodie Tuesday: Involtini di Pollo-Chicken Breast Stuffed with Italian Sausage

This is the recipe my children always request when they visit. It is also the one I pull out when I wish to impress a member of the opposite sex.

Serves: 4

STUFFING

2 bunches fresh baby spinach (stems removed… Read full post »

 

Here are the lyrics to an old song of mine that explains my nickname. This is a real story . I have been told that my songs sometimes suffer from "Loudon Wainwright syndrome". It was intended as a harsh criticism, but since I am a fan of his work I took…

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He Remembers

He sits at his old desk
Listening to a tune
Lightnin’ Hopkins singing "Mojo Hand"
The music fills the room
He pictures her dancing
This was her favorite song
It’s been one year since she passed away
How could it be so long?

He remembers
Walks by the canal
Holding hands, teasing talk
It d… Read full post »

The Ballad of Sarah Palin
(sung to the tune of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" -ask someone over 50)

A governor in deserved obscurity
Became the darling of the G.O.P.
She skinned her an elk, popped out babies,
Joined the N.R.A. when she was only three.

Sarah!
Sarah Palin!
Queen of the Alaskan frontier.

McCai… Read full post »