Another week, another soggy diaper and salty trail of tears. Such is life. Wackiness abounds in great big buckets of slop. Not only are politicians their usual two-faced selves but we have a slew of apocalyptic behavior and my own private wacked-out hell. Enjoy the weekend folks. The […]
October 27 is the 300th day of the year and there are now less than 65 days left to the year. That seems rather ominous. Back in 1929, October 28 now labeled Black Monday, was a dark day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The last week […]
The Hellmouth rises as sinkholes appear. A call to arms against sinkholes From beneath you, it devours you –Buffy the Vampire Slayer Have you noticed lately that the media has been reporting about more and more sinkholes? Or as I would like to argue “hellmouths”. But I will […]
I believe in ghosts. I also believe that mental states are probably not separable from physical states. There indeed are ghosts in the machine. I just didn’t think they would exist in my machine. Better yet, my phone and computer. I just recently got a new phone. Before […]
We are fully in autumn now. The leaves are falling and with it perhaps the national IQ as well, along with the collective sense of dignity. Bill Maher put out a new rule last week about the state of American attire in the public sphere. We are a […]
While growing up, Good Friday was a somber day in my catholic household. No music. No dancing. Not much television. No meat. The list can go on and on. It was a time for reverence, reflection and prayer. Friday, the 13th, whenever it came about was also a […]
Went to sleep late last night, holding on tightly to my IPAD. Not unlike many other Americans and the technology-obsessed. Dreamt wild dreams of working underground battling bats and snakes; and those were just my co-workers. Woke up with frizzy curls and a fuzz head. Waddled over to […]
Lately, my left hand has been itching like crazy. I’m right handed, and I make it a point to stay out of the garden (ruling out poison ivy). Besides, anybody who grew up in a poor Puerto Rican household knows that itchy hands are a supernatural signal that […]
The morning sky was dark My head and hair frizzy and fuzzy filled with songs of the lark First, there was a bunny Surely, he was real Or was I just hungry Then, there was my dog Surely, he wasn’t real Seemed I needed some grog Yet my […]
It is 3am and I just cannot fall back asleep. It could be the immense jet-lag that I feel. It also could be that I came to the sad realization that summer is almost over. Well, it is half way done and I guess I am a glass […]
