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Things that go boom in the night.
I’m so glad we made it to Friday! It’s been kind of a weird week, but Tuesday night takes the cake. There I was, sound asleep in bed, when I was awakened at 1:18 a.m. by what sounded like an explosion outside. The bedroom was plunged into (deeper) darkness, our white noise machine silenced, the…
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The tiny umbrella that uncovered a huge lie.
Whenever I order cocktails, they rarely come with little paper umbrellas. Fun and whimsical though these may be, they’re usually reserved for tropical drinks. Piña coladas, Mai Tais, that sort of thing. Which I never order. If/when I get my tiki bar, you can bet your ass I’ll have a whole drawer full of tiny…
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I guess that Peter Piper fella works in accounting.
With gardening season winding down, we’re at the point where it’s time to purge. There are only so many tomatoes a fella can eat, you know? Actually, our true bumper crop has been peppers. We have about a billion bells, scads of serranos, plenty of poblanos, a shitload of shishitos, and an amazing array of…
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Yo-ho-ho and a bucket of rum.
I have long been a fan of the comic strip Tundra. The humor is often twisted and dark…but this unpublished strip takes the cake. Chad Carpenter, the cartoonist, posted that on Facebook last week, looking for input. Most of the comments were like, No! Too much! That’s crossing the line! But I haven’t laughed out…
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Prompt & Circumstance
For the record, I’m not the only one who is skeleton-happy these days. I found myself behind this motorcycle for much of my Wednesday commute home. I was very subtle when snapping the pic because I didn’t want the biker to give me a sternum look. Good thing no cops were around. He might have…
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Keeping up with the Boneses.
Even though it doesn’t feel like fall – summer is back with a vengeance (and those damn mosquitoes have never gone away) – it’s officially spooky season at MarTar Manor. Did I go overboard with the skeletons this year? No bones about it! (Or lots of bones about it, I s’pose…) But I was feeling…
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