#newyorker caption contest 349

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 sorry, Marge.  I tried to listen, but I’ve been having trouble focusing lately.” Now get on with your creative…

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Oh, did I have a busy summer.  Too busy, really, busy but not much fun.  One kid went off to college.  Boston University, to be specific.  I’d tell you the tuition, but I don’t want to faint again.  Before the summer, I was on a terrific writing roll.  My blog stats (as if they’re important)…

#fridayfictioneers 7/20 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…

#fridayfictioneers 7/13 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…

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)…

“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,…

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…