Inconstant as a November Sky

Inconstant as a November Sky

by | Aug 14, 2008 | Arts & Letters, Featured

It’s fascinating the things folks search for… and confounding. There are search phrases in Bloggle’s referrer logs that are truly head-scratchers: cyphers, bits of blank verse, and the odd, indelicate phrase that could make Bob Saget blush. Then...

It All Adds Up in the End

by | Aug 14, 2008 | Life in Vermont

Some quick, back of the envelope calculations… Since making the switch to a scooter for my daily commute I’ve ridden about 1000 miles in the last month, despite record rainfall in Vermont this summer. (grumble) Along the way I gobbled up 37 fewer gallons...

Coffee Notes from All Over

by | Aug 13, 2008 | Coffee

The cool kids at Barismo do a deft take on a David Letterman style top-ten list with 10 Reasons Coffee Doesn’t Taste Like the Bag Descriptions. Number 10 – Juan Valdez is dead. Get over it. Number 9 – The marketing team ran out of ways to say,...
Spammy Story: Weird Tales Loser

Spammy Story: Weird Tales Loser

by | Aug 10, 2008 | Arts & Letters, Original Fiction

Weird Tales magazine recently hosted a spiffy flash fiction contest. The challenge: write a piece of fewer than 500 words based on a SPAM email. Well, gosh. I have a host of collected SPAM to choose from — some of them artful in their painful obfuscation and...

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