“But now in Autumn with the black and outcast crows/Share we the spacious world. The whispering year is gone./There is more room to live now.The once secret dawn/Comes late by daylight, and the dark unguarded goes.” —from Immortal Autumn, by Archibald MacLeish Its a little after 6 AM as i sit here with this glowing … Continue reading The Once Secret Dawn →

(just as an aside lemme say that for some reason typing on this site i is wonky. … ..I.t freezes up for seconds, and it doesnt capitalize after periods. and doesnt insert the apostrophes in words like “doesnt”and i cant be arsed to go back and do it. So sorry…) Any way what i wanna … Continue reading The Glory That Was Halloween →

I just ordered my T-shirt so emblazoned. Didja get yours yet? i think you should. Although I’m famously foul-mouthed, I would draw the line at wearing the F-word on my chest. i mean, there are certain people to whom i wouldnt say it, and i might run into some of them. Plus i wouldnt want … Continue reading Let’s Go Brandon! →

“Nap”dresses: have you heard of ’em? They are apparently the hottest item going these days. And their main feature, the ONE thing they all have, is elastic smocking. The summer ones look style-wise like Little House on the Prairie costumes. but they come in velvet, too. Elastic-smocked velvet. Maybe theyre the mini-skirts of today, their … Continue reading For Ettes and Ettes-Ceterae →

I think, maybe, it’s beginning to occur to people that whites, or ”the west” , does not and never did have a monopoly on colonization and conquest. What took ‘em so long? is what I wanna know! Mesopotamia, India, China, Egypt, Africa: they were all doin’ it very efficiently and on a grand scale ,for … Continue reading Out From Under →

…because I just cant get a vantage point. Really, does ‘most everybody hate and despise the Bygone-Hapless Admin, as the polls (blessedly) (seem to show? and does it look like the GOP will sweep Congress next year? Or are the Dems outraising us at every turn? (thats what all the political solicitations clogging my inbox … Continue reading Oh Say, Can YOU See? →

Characters in the Old Testament didnt! God spoke face to face with Adam , he didnt have to decide whether or not he believed in God's existence. The Bible says it wasnt until 2 generations down from Adam, the lifetime of Seth’s son Enosh, that ” men began to call upon the name of the … Continue reading Faith: who needs it? →

I visited Aeon (the online magazine) today and read an article about enduring memory in animals. If memory is only seated in brain cells, asks the author, how come hibernating animals can lose a huge percentage od their brain cells during the dormant state and still know what to do (even to the extent if … Continue reading Out of Our Skulls (or: Food for Thought) →

….to the now de rigeur designation of ”preferred pronouns” in online communications. Hypatia henceforward may—nay, must— be referred to in the second-person subject and object as “ my lady” or, more formally, ”her grace” (possessives: “my lady’s”, ”her grace’s”—and do not under any circumstances omit the apostrohes; that betrays a woeful lack of education, as … Continue reading “We”Capitulate →

‘Scuse me: didn't we hear, like, 2 days ago that ol’ Jo[k]e Bygone may owe $500,000 in unpaid taxes? Or am I crazy? And —although an executive in Trumps company was photographed being brought into court in fucking shackles over some minor issue involving a company car—nobody in the media is even talking about the … Continue reading Wait, What?!? →