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Two Little Hands

by s.r.g. | Oct 1, 2020 | childhood, old news, parenting | 0 |

My life's decades are the number of fingers on a well-formed human hand, not including the thumb....

ugly rotating head on top

by s.r.g. | Jul 15, 2013 | fake news, old news | 0 |

our architect firm pitched the idea of mounting a rotating head atop SCC HQ, proportionate to the size of the building so as to be "life-size." Now this is the kind of...

meet Rapunzel my new assistant

by s.r.g. | Nov 12, 2011 | fake news, old news | 0 |

Okay. Seriously, I don't know what you think I do all days long here atop this this ivory tower made of ACME Brick, pressure-treated wood, gypsum and other stuff. These are cramped quarters with little or no redeeming qualities...

the crack of dawn

by s.r.g. | Apr 17, 2011 | language, old news | 0 |

and so, why not invest in your new possible ocean-front property. This amounts to some seriously aggressive real estate speculation, certainly. So far, we've got a 36-mile-long crack, 20-feet-wide at its broadest, opening from...

Tiger Tiger pants on fire

by s.r.g. | Dec 22, 2010 | old news | 0 |

Source: Reuters Now, wasn't that fun? First saw this on Twitter about 12 hours after the fact. One must wonder what is up with that. And so I do. First one tweet, then another.... Tiger Woods had a wreck, he's...

lunar eclipse during winter solstice

by s.r.g. | Dec 21, 2010 | old news | 0 |

Now here’s something you don’t see every day, every year or even every century. North America gets to view a total lunar eclipse as Fall passes the seasonal baton to Winter. It is the day planet Earth groans and grunts because...

all the live long day

by s.r.g. | Sep 22, 2010 | old news | 0 |

Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railways... the connotation is warm. The combination is hot, for Warren Buffett, anyway. But I'm just playing with the words here. I know very little about the investment, the mess of money, the...

remember…

by s.r.g. | Jun 6, 2010 | old news, parenting, word use | 0 |

The nature of this venue does not put a premium on research. This is no publication of record. It's the Internet. Worse, it's a blog. A web log. A log on the web. It is a log of blurbs and nonverbal verbiage because it has not...

soylent chartreuse

by s.r.g. | Dec 21, 2009 | old news | 0 |

spoyler alert... it's people... and kinda stupid... ((as are some people, like, for example, those who write about it 35 years later... and those who read about it... and those who, when they write, excessively use...

Klaatu called, he wants his shiny metallic object back

by s.r.g. | Mar 18, 2008 | fake news, old news | 0 |

Professor Barnhart, the smartest man in the world, contacted the offices of Sacred Clone Chronicles with news of a communication he received from Klaatu. "Moriblaz kliphm noopro lantupulo psyrintlib maraclin,"said Klaatu,...

A-Rod, a strike-out before the strike

by s.r.g. | Jul 30, 1998 | apparel, childhood, old news, parenting | 0 |

Somebody had shelled out some big bucks for this family outing. It wasn't me. I never is. It was probably Grampa and step-Grandma. It's what they do. It's amazing and wonderful, so generous, so memorable. The Ballpark in...

A Similar Thing

by s.r.g. | Aug 18, 1981 | childhood, old news, poetry, verse libre | 0 |

The radio said a Cessna made an emergency landing ont the same side of the freeway I was driving on minutes earlier. This happened in Gallup on the way to Salt Lake City from Dallas. So, I have convinced myself I can make...

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