GONDOLA AND REST STOP

June 18, 2013

Gondola with dog rest stop featured in the foreground.

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NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

June 17, 2013
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This is NOT what it looks like up here today. I repeat. This is NOT what it looks like up here today. You may safely return to your homes or cardboard boxes under bridges, if that happens to be where you live. Up here today, this is NOT it. Keep your antennae aimed at Jupiter […]

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THE BLOOMSDAY TOAST

June 16, 2013

Every year I insert one new line into my Bloomsday Toast: Here’s to – Nora the barnacle goose – Skin-the-Goat – the giggle fit of bronze by gold – the blind stripling piano tuner tap tap tapping along – the dog’s rag of wolf’s tongue redpanting from his jaws- Stephen deep in thought strolling on […]

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BANAL INTERVIEWS WITH CELEBRITY GHOSTS – R. L. STEVENSON

June 15, 2013

Loon: We’re bringing you this special Saturday edition of the 3 question interview because there’s something happening here tomorrow about a flower show or blooms or something. Anyway, our celebrity ghost is none other than Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island. Welcome, Mr. Stevenson, and I want to begin by asking you if John […]

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THE JOHANNA SPYRI KWIZ ANSWER

June 14, 2013

To battle writer’s block, she relaxed with a cup of tea and goat’s milk. The other answers are just silly.

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THE JOHANNA SPYRI KWIZ

June 13, 2013

Spyri, who wrote the children’s classic, ‘Heidi’, dealt with writer’s block by: a. charging up the Matterhorn barefoot. b. tossing heavy boulders into a ravine. c. flinging herself about while crying, ‘Why? Why? Why?’ d. marching around the town square counting backwards from 10,000. e. enjoying a cup of tea with just a drop of […]

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SUMMER CAMP

June 12, 2013
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Freshly scrubbed. bright and eager, the poppy children arrive for the first day of camp.

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MORE NOIR TITLE SUGGESTIONS

June 11, 2013
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Be Deadly, My Heart Long Night On A Train To Misery My Dagger Plays For Keeps No Holidays For The Ice Pick I Loath You, My Love

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ANGLES AND THE ORANGE

June 10, 2013
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BANAL INTERVIEWS WITH CELEBRITY GHOSTS – BASIL RATHBONE

June 9, 2013

Loon: Today’s 3 question interview victim, ha ha ha so to speak, is the very famous portrayer of Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Basil Rathbone. Tell me, sir, just what is a rathbone? Basil Rathbone’s ghost: You jest, my dear fellow, but nonetheless, the question is one of interest. It has to do with a Mr. Charles […]

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