What’s the weirdest movie you’ve ever watched? There are weird movies. There are surreal movies. And then there is Naked Lunch, a movie that makes you wonder whether the filmmakers were on drugs, whether you should be on drugs to understand it, or whether the entire point is […]
I though the month of January was odd and tough. Actually, many of us did. January hit us like a hurricane. Thus far, February is a completely different matter. Thus far. It’s a short month and we are more than halfway through. Yet, we all know anything can […]
We all have occasional odd thoughts. I still remember those opening scenes in Sex, Lies, and Videotapes where Andie McDowell’s character keeps ruminating about trash landfills. Odd thoughts can take on an earworm quality just spinning and spinning around in one’s head. I myself recently had such a […]
There are at times certain phrases or conversation snippets that get stuck in your mind. The equivalent of earworms but different. Lewis Black has the best skit on this and at least once a year I mention it. The skit notes “if it wasn’t for my horse, I […]
The past year or so I have taken to writing some flash fiction pieces. I love looking at a photograph and coming up with a backstory and a future space in which it lives and breathes. I like it also because it allows me to cut back […]
It is a new year, the first month of 12 to come, and we are at the mid-way point on said month. Everything is new, shiny, and intriguing. Well, arguably not everything. However, in my rosy, ruby outlook, it’s all shiny and full of possibilities. While much […]
As a kid, I was considered a bit of an odd duck. Well, actually my nickname for a year or two was “flamingo legs”. But that wasn’t because of my apparent weirdness. Apparently, my legs were thin and long as a kid. Then I grew up. I […]
Apparently, I do not suffer fools very well, if at all. I make faces in meetings when people say incredibly false statements that they expect everyone to outright believe. I show my incredulousness by wrinkling my nose at some people’s stupidity. Just this past week, I had […]
There is an an old piece of weather folklore that notes “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, sailor’s warning”. Red sky at morning is said to signal rain.” But what about red rain? I have always loved the Peter Gabriel song of Red Rain. It is […]
