Black History month began on February 1st. Also February 1st was National Dark Chocolate Day. The fact that both of these are on the same day seems flagrantly racist to me. It also seems odd that we even have a Black History month. After all what is called Black history is,… 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… Read full post »

First , A Valentine Question: When a liberal like Al Franken sends Valentine hearts, are they bleeding?

Valentine's Day Fun Facts You Should Know:

On valentine's day a married woman will spend 1 minute reading the Valentine's day card from her husband, 13 minutes eating Valentine's day chocolate, 154 m… Read full post »

That says it all.

(note :I did not write this. I just wanted to share the holiday joy)

A Christmas Poem by Paul Gilmartin

Eggnog, tinsel, falling snow
Buttered rum and mistletoe
Christmas trees and hanging lights
The sound of carolers fills the night

Shopping hours long and hard
Visa phones and cancels card
Unpaid bills and… Read full post »

"It's a Wonderful Life" appears on TV more often than any other holiday movie. The holiday movie that appears least? "The Creationist's Scientific Christmas" in which the baby Jesus is eaten by dinosaurs.

The word Christmas is Old English, a contraction of "Christ's Mass". Or a contraction of the repl… Read full post »

Incident n. 1, an occurrence or event; a casual happening.

One year ago a temporary Walmart employee, Jdimytai Damour, 34, of Queens, New York was trampled to death in a stampede of sale crazed shoppers. The annual rite of retailing known as Black Friday turned chaotic and deadly, as shoppers scramble… Read full post »

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…

Read full post »

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 »