Month: February 2021

I mentioned in a recent post about having written a new stage play excerpt for my writing portfolio. Then when prepping for yesterday’s Under My Skin podcast, I ended up writing a whole essay about the portfolio and the story of behind the story of the excerpt. Which was...

So, as mentioned/joked about on the first couple episodes of the new Under My Skin podcast, I recently finished John Taylor’s autobiography In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death, and Duran Duran. Well, let’s have a more fair look than I gave it in the podcast, hmm? (In my defense,...

rhinestones melting in the desert fire the customs of our (lost) nation destroy destroy burn few precious relics saved to rot in a museum that future generations might someday wonder at our grace that we threw away like so much garbage as we defile our history and ourselves...

New episode of The Zamo the Destroyer Show: The chimps have yet again offended the Sun God, leading to several inches of snow and some severe nose-thwackings with rolled up newspapers as Zamo doles out divine retribution on behalf of the Sun God. Except for Technical Support Monkey, who...

Dia duit. Just finished the Irish 101 course from Dublin City University and about to start Irish 102 next week. Both are free through futurelearn.com, which is good for those of us who might well have a little Scottish in us mixed with the Irish and hence don’t want...

Dia duit! (Irish for hello). Where to begin today… well, I think I mentioned before about trying to learn Irish on Duolingo… which is infuriating (though made better when one learns that the website version of Duolingo has grammar notes even though the app version leaves you high and...

Little yellow torch-buds raised high without pitchforks a crowd waits to protest and drive away the frost by their defiant unfurling...

New episode of The Zamo the Destroyer Show: Inspired by an old British archeology show, Zamo tries to get Technical Support Monkey to start digging for Roman coins in her garden and in the park across the street, but apparently the Romans were smart enough to stay far away...

Where to start this week… a lot of my “work” time was spent right here or on related sites. I spent all evening Thursday uploading more than 100 Zamo the Destroyer episodes to my Soundcloud after doing the unlimited storage space upgrade. I had had the first 97 episodes...

When I was a kid, showgirls still seemed to be everywhere on TV… probably it was old syndicated variety shows from the 60s and 70s I was watching (just as I watched Bewitched religiously long after it was no longer running), but then there were also aspects of showgirl...