White Privilege

You’ve got an exercise machine. The first month you had it you rode an hour a day. Your feeling of guilt about being out of  shape and overweight faded as you peddled mile after imaginary mile. After a few weeks you moved a large flat screen monitor so you could watch as you rode. Then

NFTBP

When hip was in I was out. When the cool ruled I was uncool. In my old age I have decided to finally get myself ahead of the curve, in front of the trend, In with the IN crowd. I have purchased a nonfungible banana peel. At the point where Art, Grift and Technology meet

A Blue Yeti hangs from my ceiling

The missing Yeti, a blue Yeti, this one black, hangs patiently from the ceiling listening to my rants and monologs. It was missing for a couple of weeks while the seller scrambled to get a second example. The first went astray. USA seller apparently means just that. It doesn’t mean items are shipped from stock

Kill Devil Hill, Mars

Mars was 62 million miles from Earth on the 19th of April. That morning a small helicopter rose nine feet and hovered for half a minute above Jezero Crater. The little flying machine looked out over a river delta, dry for a billion years. The helicopter was christened “ingenuity” by it’s creators. Custom made to

An Atrocity a Day

An Auto Obit

Its a rare opportunity when we can write our own obituary. Its once in a lifetime. Birth announcements precede births. These days the birth announcements include ultrasound sex reveals. Death announcements, aside from executions, are less common. Possibly because we habitually put off the idea of death, denying its inevitability. A couple of days ago

Escaping Earth 5

Escaping Earth 5 I met Sheila the Ship in our just completed Crew Cantina. Its a replica of the iconic USA diner from the late 40’s. Each of the half dozen tables has the miniature jukebox where the table meets the wall . Everything was a reassuring analog back then. When you flipped thru the

Corona Virus Blues

I got dem covid bluesfrom my runny nosedown to my blue toed shoes covid blues, can’t seemto loose dem covid blues(repeating refrain) can’t taste can’t smellgonna die but what the hell (refrain) Got the sanitizer got the maskBut the UK strain is surging fast (refrain) Pfizer Moderna and J and Jget the jabs then pray

Waiting for my Blue Yeti

I have updated my previous post “Leaving Earth 4” by adding the author’s reading of it In this web presence, WordPress and my interest in graphics, creative writing and voice, ie classic radio drama, I wonder what format I should settle on. Nothing too Freudian about the title, Escaping Earth. In quiet times millions of

Escaping Earth 4

To get up to speed with this narrative, if you haven’t, read part one. It may or may not help. Depends on you. Basically I am trying to complete a space ship’s interior and systems while whipping a crew into shape. The term “ship shape” comes of a long nautical heritage gained on the oceans