DON’T be offended if I don’t recognize you — it’s because I don’t have my glasses on.
I can’t see *%$#. You could Henry Goddam Kissinger for all I know.
DON’T be offended if I don’t recognize you — it’s because I don’t have my glasses on.
I can’t see *%$#. You could Henry Goddam Kissinger for all I know.
Roanoke, VA.
Somewhere in or around Hollins. One of the things you see looking south is the Roanoke — Blacksburg Regional Airport.
Look for a surprise appearance by Mr. Turkey Vulture!

I’m really good at encouraging OTHERS to get organized and focused. Not always so good at getting organized and focused myself.
Got a whole little physician-heal-thyself thing goin’ on.
I went to the beach today, and I even took a ride on the Ship of Theseus — just like I did when I was a kid.
But it just wasn’t the same.
I’m sorry. This really is a ship joke.
This just in — Toaster Strudels are goddam wonderful.
Update — somebody just told me that there is icing in the box — and that you put it on yourself. I did not know that!!
Update 2.0 — I suppose that the “ICING INLCUDED” proclamation on the front of the box should have been my first clue.
I got some nice news today — my short poem “Nothing” was included in Down in the Dirt’s newest poetry collection, Casting Off. (The poem originally appeared in the magazine’s August 2023 Issue.)
You can purchase Casting Off in paperback format here over at Amazon.
Or you can read it for free online right here.
Thanks yet again to Editor Janet Kuypers for choosing to feature my work in this exemplary literary magazine!

No, I was not alive when “The Adventures of Superman” first aired in the 1950’s. But I could swear that I remember seeing reruns on local New York broadcast TV when I was a tot in the 1970’s.
I could be wrong! It’s possible I’m remembering some other iteration of the character in film or television. My instincts are telling me that this is the show, though.
Comic book fans will recognize George Reeves in the iconic title role.
I am linking here, by the way, to Steven Brandt’s Youtube channel. Thanks, Mr. Brandt.
Neuromaste — the neurotic in me greets the neurotic in you.
(There’s something to be said for dysfunctional spiritual symmetry. )
Old people thoughts I totally had today:
“This McDonald’s is exceptionally clean. The staff should be commended.”