New Yorker caption contest #341

So, like last time, you can put your caption here as a comment.  But better yet is to click on the picture, go to the New Yorker magazine website, and enter your caption in their contest. “You guys see a hare?” And don’t forget to vote from the picture posted two weeks ago. Meanwhile, get on with your…

Jeff, Who Lives at Home

I’ve said that there’s no reason to write a story without a plot because you literally can make a plot of anything.  It’s really not hard.  Why did Jeff get a wrong-number phone call asking for Kevin?  Is Pat’s wife cheating on him?  You don’t need anything more. Jeff, Who Lives at Home was written…

FYI – I Hate You All

If you’re going to hate someone (because “dislike” is too politically correct) it’s only fair to make sure they know exactly why you hate them.  People of WordPress – consider this a fair warning.  You messed up my vacation.  Also, this post took a lot longer to write than I expected. Every summer for the…

11/22/63 – Stephen King and JFK

Two of the most controversial and never-endingly (?) discussed items in the last 50 years can each be summed up with three letters.  UFO and JFK.  Stephen King has written about many things, and although I haven’t read anything he may have written about UFO’s, he did manage to take a crack (no pun intended)…

Happy Birthday

i was on my way home from home depot and saw the late afternoon sun backlighting the flag through the frame of the trees.  i spun a u-turn, then another, then got this while hoping nobody came out of the house and chased me away.

Stay out of – “The Shack”

(re-posted from about a year ago – because you never read it. Item G of a 5-part series Of course you can’t judge a book by its cover, but it’s okay to pick one because of it. When I saw the cover for The Shack, by William P. Young, I thought three things. First, I said,…

To Be, or Not to Be, on the Beach

This is the place next door, where Jimmy lives.  Jimmy has a flag.  His flag tells me if it’s okay to go to the beach.  Lemme explain. In the lower middle/right of the picture above is the beach.  Upper left with the yellow circle is my place.  Between is my path to the beach, about…

“Angels & Demons” by Dan Brown

I’m on vacation, so I wrote up a few reposts and saved them as drafts, thus allowing me to publish something each day through my phone. Gotta live technology. (re-posted, because you haven’t seen it) Item triangle of a geometric-part series   In the beginning of Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown of The Da Vinci Code,…

“Bleachers” by John Grisham. Scalp the ticket while you can.

Item 7 of a 3-part series Bleachers by John Grisham (re-posted, because you never read it before) There’s a commonly known formula, or at least it’s commonly known to me, that lies in almost every John Grisham novel. Either the government, a nationally feared law firm, or a conglomerate of a company is doing something wrong,…