Trudge164

Trudge164
Location
Arrive Alive!, Florida, USA
Birthday
February 29
Title
Noh-Won
Bio
Sometimes serious, sometimes comical, always topical. =========================== A guy can dream and drown in a deluge of his own delusional thinking. Can't he? ========================= People have said this about me: "He was just one of those guys with that weird light around him. He just knew he wasn't gonna get so much as a scratch here." --Willard talking about Kilgore, "Apocalypse Now" =========================== It is what it is until it no longer is, then it becomes something else.

MY RECENT POSTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2012 12:08PM

Helping a Troubled Teen

 Part two of "Bridgette on Miracle Mile, Coral Gables"

 Fiction Weekend Story for 2/10/2012 - 2/12/2012

For this weekend, I continued the “Bridgette on Miracle Mile, Coral Gables” story. Part One: “Bridgette on Miracle Mile, Coral Gables” (click on the title if youRead full post »

Thanks Scanner and everyone else on Open Salon. 

In a nutshell...

As of this morning, Haggard & Halloo Publications, published my flash fiction story “A Sensuous Moment”. It appears with my real first two initials and last name: JR Alonso. Please read it at their site. If you fe… Read full post »

I didn’t follow this week’s prompt. Instead, I further explored the characters I created in “Under the Bridge”. My last story focused on Bob the Demon see “Collecting Souls”. This story focuses on Bridgette the Angel, Bob’s counterpart in the soul collecRead full post »

DECEMBER 29, 2011 11:41AM

Collecting Souls with Graphic Warning


I didn’t do the assigned prompt this weekend. Rather, this story is about Bob the Demon. He is a character I created from my “Under the Bridge” story.

WARNING: THIS STORY GETS VIOLENTLY GRAPHIC TOWARDS THE END!

The bar was packed and filled with first and second-hand smoke. T… Read full post »

UPDATE: My cousin, who I mentioned in my Holiday Blues post, passed away this Friday, December 23rd. We will be attending her funeral later today (December 25th).

She lived a good life. She fought the good fight. She was a good soul. May she rest in peace. 

 

To my fellow OpeRead full post »

DECEMBER 20, 2011 10:57AM

A Paler Shade of Holiday Blues

This post is in response to the “My Blue Holiday” Open Call.

I’m having a triple-play holiday blues this year!

Holiday Blues #1: In which I lose my job
On Wednesday, December 15 of this year, due to restructuring, I was laid off from my job of eleven years./… Read full post »

DECEMBER 9, 2011 10:11AM

Isis's Mystery Box

Prompt for Open Salon Fiction Weekend 12/9/2011 - 12/11/2011:  At work one day, a character finds something troubling in a coworker’s desk drawer. What is it, and what happens?  
 
I went a little Sci-Fi with this one. I hope you enjoy it.  
 
 At 9 a.m. tod… Read full post »
 
   Back in 2007, I went for a long run. While on that run, I found a ten dollar bill on the street. I stopped, picked up the bill, and continued my run. When I got home, I posted the ten dollar bill on my refrigerator door using a refrigerator magnet.

 
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NOVEMBER 23, 2011 10:09AM

A Change In Attitude

A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. 

Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words,… Read full post »

NOVEMBER 20, 2011 9:43AM

Classic Cars at the Harvest Festival

 

front end of a cherry red roadster_vintage cars at the harvest festival 

 This past weekend, I went with my wife and daughter to the 37th Annual Harvest Festival. It was held at the Miami-Dade Fair Expo Center in Miami, Florida. 

While there, I was able to snap some shots of some really cool looking old timey cars that were in excellent… Read full post »

NOVEMBER 11, 2011 10:01AM

War is Hell! Peacetime is a Mother Fu****

   I was bored, so I volunteered to do some temporary duty in the Philippines during a joint services exercises. A military exercise is the peacetime equivalent of war. As a whole, military exercises give the phrase “busy-work” a perversely whole new meaning.

   Beside… Read full post »

 

    Sally waited for all the cars to pass. It was a Saturday night and there weren’t that many cars crossing the bridge. When she felt the coast was clear, Sally approached the suspension bridge that connected her small town with the rest of the world.

   The br… Read full post »

   On February 14, 2011, I left for work. Like most mornings, I took the same road I always take. I got on SW 48th street westbound which when I cross SW 107th avenue it becomes SW 47th terrace. Don’t ask me why. It just does; it is one of those/… Read full post »

 

Dear Men,

If you are anything like me (I will pray for you), you most likely suffer from Fred Flintstone-itis. What is Fred Flintstone-itis?

It is a deadly disease which occurs during certain times of the month if you are involved in a relationship (committed or not)… Read full post »

Really! Seriously. I am not making this up.

The other day I was reading the recent issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, when I happened upon the following quiz: "Are You the 1 Percent?

Thinking I would not be anywhere near the One Percent that own everything in this country including me, I… Read full post »

Yesterday, October 15, 2011, about 1,000 Citizens met at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami to protest the blatant lack of representation of the People in our nation's capital by our corporate-owned elected officials.  

According to this morning's Miami Herald, the 1,000 Strong  gathered at BaRead full post »

Jim Galt, aka Whoreville Redendcocker, made an Open Call in which he asked us to name twenty famous living or dead persons that we would like to have at a dinner party. You can read all about it here Open Call.

Since I have no chance of ever rubbing elbows with… Read full post »

I've been here since two this afternoon. So far after filling out a 1,001 forms in quadruplicate  and having my peepers dilated to the size of basketballs on growth steroids, I'm sitting here and waiting and waiting and waiting. Did I mention I'm  waiting to see the doctor so he can… Read full post »

Okay, so like the other day, I noticed this post by our  illustrious editor. It’s about hating on "Wooly Bully"; a harmless song from the Sixties that has been covered by just about everyone.

 

And I’m like, why does everyone hate this song so much? It’s got a… Read full post »

Over the last couple of weeks, I was toying around with Open Salon’s search engine when I made an interesting discovery.

I started typing some common names in the search field and setting the search parameters to “Search by Name”. For example, I typed in the name “Anne”.… Read full post »

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011 8:04AM

Walk a Mile in these Shoes

Or at least take a walk on the wild side in style
Meet Kobi Levi an Israeli shoe designer who creates wearable art
.
The inspiration for his "sole-ful" creations comes from everyday objects and the natural world. He has madeRead full post »
Editor’s Pick
JUNE 30, 2011 7:54AM

Yo no Soy un Cubano Arrepentido-Open Call

This post is response to "The moment I felt most American" Open Call.

   Growing up in Astoria, Queens, New York City in the mid-sixties, assimilation was the name of the game. We were Cuban immigrants living in exile. We were strangers in a strange land. However, while we were the… Read full post »

This week I chose prompt A: write whatever you want. This story was inspired by Ume who challenged me to write a version of “Sweat Drops the Size of Quarters” but from the girl’s point-of-view. I have never written from a woman’s perspective before, so here goes nothing or som/Read full post »

Last week, I posted “Galactic Glue” for Fiction Wednesday. I wrote it in the Flash Fiction style. Apparently, this style garnered so much interest with the Fiction Wednesday crowd, that it prompted Alysa Salzberg to make it this week’s prompt:

An Open Salon Mystery Trivia (actually it's only a mystery to me)

Dear fellow Open Salon Bloggers, 

I need your help.

For the longest time, I have been trying to find out the name of an actor who used to play a recurring character in one of the '60s and… Read full post »