New Yorker caption contest #340

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.   “Okay, so this was a good start.  Next week at 11am?”   And don’t forget to vote from the picture…

Love-Hate

just wanted to share a picture that can be found here: arabian roses’ whispers I suppose I should have asked her first.  Sorry, miss.

How About a Little Competition?

re-posted – because you’ve never read it. Remember when you “made the team”?  Maybe you’re old enough to remember when you went to try-outs, struggled through practice, had a number pinned on your shirt as you caught grounders and fly balls and waited your turn at bat.  You stood in front of coaches or judges…

#fridayfictioneers 6/22 via madison woods

Every Wednesday Madison Woods posts a picture prompt to challenge writers to create a 100-word story or poem or anything that works for you.  then post your work on your blog.  additionally, on friday, you go back to her site and post a link to your blog entry in the comments on her friday fictioneers post. I’m going to try…

I’d Like to Report an Assault

I love CNN.  If you added up the minutes, I watch more CNN than anything else on television, but they have to calm it down.  This is a screen shot from this morning, as you can see in the upper left, at 11:42 AM, eastern time.  If you’re someone with problems focusing, I recommend you…

New Yorker caption contest #339

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. I’m a little disappointed it involves an airplane because two weeks ago was set on a plane too. I tried to…

#prometheus – or, how i met your other mother

There are three debates that I never hesitate to join.  Did Oswald act alone?  Should baseball eliminate the DH?  And was life on Earth the result of design or evolution?  Of these worthy discussions, Prometheus, directed by Ridley Scott (Alien, Aliens, more Aliens) addresses the last one but does so without picking sides and possibly…

Unanswered movie questions #47

This one is for the nerds out there, like me. In the Lord of the Rings fight scene in which Isildur cuts off Sauron’s finger, thus taking the One Ring from him – every time anyone else has worn the ring, it makes the wearer invisible.  Why wasn’t Sauron invisible?  Just asking.

what’s up, daddio?

reposted, because you haven’t seen it, and for father’s day. yes, that’s my dad when he was about 16. i’ve notice a handful of books in recent years from celebrities and television personalities, non-fiction books that are like a tribute to the father from the son.  i would imagine that any father who has a son…