He sits, reading a coffee table book about Corvette C6s. His book mark is a letter from the Washington Department of Corrections. He wears blue jeans, a pale blue shirt and a grey sweatshirt over it. He wears a black knit watch cap and black boots. He has white hair, and […]
Breakfast, 7.45 am. JMan is looking at the syrup server. I get the syrup in the big jug at Costco and use a ketchup server with the top trimmed back to serve the syrup at table. The server is about the shape and size of a baby bottle. There’s about 1/4 […]
I have this book in my bookcase, “Fragebogen”, by Ernst von Salomon. It is story of his life under Nazism as answered by the 131 questions of the questionnaire (Fragebogen) used by the US military government for de-Nazification following World War II.
Von Salomon was in the Freikorps after World War I; the Freikorps was […]
I’m watching a movie called “Wild Hearts” on the Hallmark Channel. Having a post-op shoulder means I can type on my laptop while my hind quarters are anchored to the sofa, so I see a lot of movies. This movie has all of the story beats that I would put in it. […]
After getting nicked for $124 last night by John Law for expired plate tabs, I was pretty steamed. I’m not a scofflaw, it was just one of the bits of detail that I manage that didn’t get managed. The reminder came in the mail at the time that I was preparing to go […]
Here in the Seattle ‘burbs, people are buying up lots and building monster houses. I drove by this one on Sunday and stopped to take a few pictures because it seems so inhuman. I took these with my iPhone.
These pictures do not convey well the architectural dreams that have been rendered in oriented strand […]
I went to a script reading a week ago in Seattle. Brian MacDonald was the runner up in a Washington script competition. I like Brian. He’s a pretty smart guy. One of the major features of the script was reincarnation. I sat through the reading thinking about the use of […]
I am working on three story ideas that are rom-coms. One is about a divorced father who is not snapping out of the post-divorce funk and getting on with life. One is about a divorced father who is not snapping out of his post-divorce funk and getting on with life. The last […]
Okay, it is hard to hate an inanimate object, but one of the things that is easy to do in MS windows is to allow software vendors to labor the user with stuff and make it harder to use the computer. MS enables this.
I had to get PGP Desktop installed on my machine. […]
I think about marriage a lot. I have been married twice, both times to women who grew up in divorced families that were high in conflict. I know now that people who grow up in divorced families where there is a high degree of conflict statistically trend toward divorce also. The same […]