Doesn’t this picture make you ANGRY! I mean how dare donkeys go to the police with their problems! Do they even pay taxes? What? Oh. What I meant was how dare William Steig portray the police as pigs! That is outrageous. And this poem… it just really gets under my skin. Clearly, it’s teaching materialism [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
S.W.A.K.
September 23, 2009 – 7:04 pm
There’s nothing that captures the imagination like hidden surprises lurking in ordinary objects. Wardrobes that lead to secret worlds. Keys tucked into stone walls that open secret gardens. I spent my childhood, (okay, let’s face it… my whole life) looking for the mysteries that are right in front of our noses. So when I visited [...]
Laptop Noir: Part Deux
September 18, 2009 – 10:10 am
One broken hard drive. One stripped screw. One man with a mission… Laptop Noir: Part Deux Tools: Pliers, business card, hammer, screwdriver, drill. Time: 2 Days, 2 fed-ex packages, and 1 trip to Home Depot. Who: Previously mentioned Uber-Geek:Wizard of Ingenuity *No dogs were harmed in the making of this film*
Technical Tap
September 16, 2009 – 3:32 pm
It was a Sunday, you see. A day so overcast it would make a raincloud wanna go tanning. Every hunch I ever had told me not to go into the office that morning. But I had a character stuck in a jam and stories wait for no woman. So, even though my nose was so [...]
Cobwebs
September 9, 2009 – 1:03 pm
I went away for a long weekend full of rain, cupcakes, bookstores, and farmers’ markets. The Pacific Northwest was a perfect remedy for smoky, hot L.A. It was also the change of scenery I needed for the new story I’m working on, which is full of pesky questions like… What happens next? and What does [...]
No One May Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again
September 2, 2009 – 3:56 pm
As I write this, the historic Mt. Wilson Observatory is in danger of being overtaken by fire. The “Station fire” has been burning for more than a week in southern California and it’s been an exceptionally terrible fire, consuming houses, leading to the death of firefighters, and turning the afternoon light a very wrong color [...]
