After a scientific study of several long and arduous minutes, I’ve decided to call it The Ding Dong Effect. What happens, that is, when one does the same thing over and over, continually. This Ding Dong thing doesn’t just happen to me, I figured, because other people talk about what happens when you say the [...]

Okay, bust out the silver lining patrol, here we go again. You know that thing I spent 200 hours busting my ass on? Well if I’d known what I was doing, I would have realized almost from the start that it wouldn’t work. A bad file, completely worthless. Those entire three hellish weeks were nothing [...]

Something bad happened the other day. And it happened over and over and over. There was nothing I could do to stop it.
You see, I was in the middle of creating the Flash animation for my new logo. The Word Doctor, but we won’t mention him. As a Flash master, I totally suck. You need [...]

The thing that bugs me about the thing is that I only use it like once a year, so I have to relearn practically the whole darn thing every time. Plus I’m no natural at it, being way too prone to stargazing and talking people into pulling my finger to be much good at doing [...]

Now I’ve never been much of one for much enjoying modern art, especially of the non-objective kind. I like abstraction to a point, since all art is in a sense abstracting from nature or reality – an artifice not the real thing – which is why the name art. But if there’s no reference to [...]

I have a problem. It started when I was 8. A bunch of us kids were gathered at Grandmother’s house listening to the neighbor girl tell a ghost story. For some reason when she got to the tense, scary part, my eyes started tearing up. That had never happened before and it kind of weirded [...]

Since today is my 200th blog I was going to talk about that, but found out today, October 15, 2009, is Blog Action Day and the topic is climate change. Bloggers around the world are discussing climate change and what to do about it.
I am not a huge joiner of political causes or an activist [...]

The frog sat on the log in the bog like an amphibious hog, oinking frogways. I love frogs. Never ate one, but I bet if I ate a frog I’d like that too. Not that many things in this world I don’t like eating.
But let’s put eating aside for a moment, after I finish my [...]

I got a link today from @DavidBTwit about Martin Strel, this guy who swam down the Amazon river, all the way.  Made me ponder courage and how much he has compared to me. Imagine hopping back into a river after your boys just had to pull you out because pirhanas were chewing on your legs. My [...]

Bye Hank.
I am as changeless as the sea. At least that’s what I’ve been telling myself for low these many years. I’ve been after the change goblin for a long long time, attempting to become someone acceptable to myself and others. I’ve tried to try to change, anyway, if sighing a lot and taking hellacious [...]

I wonder at myself – why when I compare stuff do I always have to compare it against the best? Why not compare it against the worst? It would sure make me a lot happier.
It may be that addictive personality of mine, always trying to recapture the peak experience. Or I could be stupid. Some [...]

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook [...]

There must be something good about fear. It’s really making a comeback on TV these days. National Geo and Discovery-type channels would run out of shows if there weren’t tornado, volcano, tidal-wave, planet-busting comet, out-of-control virus, earthquake, or sundry natural disaster topics. They need the Death, Doom, and Destruction channel.

Something about us loves fear or [...]

This blog is dedicated to DGrintalis, for whose generous tweet I am much in debt.
Sugar is like all good things. Too much of it is bad.
Doggone it, that’s just not fair. Something that is good should remain good to the end – good, good, good, and that’s it – but that’s not how it works. [...]

The human race is a mixed up bunch. Rascals and saints, switching from day to day and person to person, era to era. This morning I’m a scoundrel, tonight an angel. He was a bastard until he saved her life. She was a genius, until she forgot how to love.
How did we start, and where [...]

 
Raining again today. Rainy and cold and dreary, as it has been for much of this spring.
Yahoo! Man I love this. Maybe because I’m a water sign, or maybe just a waterbaby, or maybe because Colorado is a high plains state – semi-arid – and every drop of moisture is a blessing to the earth. [...]

I am so tired of being a slave to things. Slave to this, slave to that, slave to the television. As of right now I vow to not turn on the TV for a single second in the next week. The next time it goes on will be at 1:00 am next Saturday morning, at [...]

Well, it’s official. I’m hooked.
Took a couple of months since I joined to get the hang of it. Twitter is a very confusing place for a beginner. Just doesn’t make any sense. Like waves don’t make sense to a beginning surfer. They just smash him around and throw him in the air.
But after a while, [...]

Last night I saw the best production of a play I’ve ever seen. I’m still vibrating in resonance with the beauty and humanity of it. The play was called Korczak’s Children, by Jeffrey Hatcher. An excellent play, but the thing about this production that made it bust my heart (in a good way) was the children [...]

Photoshop is da bomb. Talk about easy art. Just google something you’re looking for, for your composition. Click on “Images”. Then go find somebody to rip off. What could be easier? Art without having to draw anything. All you have to do is lower your morals and you’re there!
Just layer in whatever has stricken your [...]