Month: June 2021

Poem: An Tíogar

An Tíogar stretches his neck chin up to the sun longing to be scratched behind the ears never enough will I ever ride that tiger? Yes, though perhaps not in this world but in dreams big paws pushing the top of my head I laugh and he roars stretches...

Lizard weather, online shopping, and I finally get a TV

So… greetings from Hell week: And outside: Monday will be even worse: 41 degrees Celsius (yes, I know I mix Fahrenheit and Celsius. I actually like Fahrenheit better, though.) This seems appropriate: Well, at least it’s a relatively dry heat. I remember when I lived in Vancouver there would...

Friday Fashion/Beauty: Chasing skirts for my wardrobe

So, today’s long rambling rant isn’t me bitching about bands or whatever, it’s me bitching about me. But also society/culture, but mostly me since at the end of the day, I am responsible for what I wear. Y’see… I haven’t been happy about what I’ve seen in the mirror...

Poem: Gossip

delayed respect affection (almost affectation?) but no: now is the time. courage in the face of the jeering —jealous— crowd every tidbit of new —old!– information delights me sparks more respect than I ever thought I could muster for you....

Broken tests, mixed up mugs, garden news, and future shows

Only a few more days til this Mercury retrograde screws off back to Hell for a few months… until the next one. So, I mentioned before that my brother was in Mexico as part of the process of relocating there (and I will likely follow within a year or...

A tale of two Instagrams

So… last week, one day my first-thing-in-the-morning habitual checking of Instagram brought me the following comparison (with some names removed to protect the bitter): [Party Band]’s Instagram story that day was 5 year old clips of [Party Band’s singer] with a hair up his ass snarkily lecturing the crowd...

Poem: Lines

little boy, so far from home trapped in a (semi-)grown man’s body with a man’s needs afraid to be alone cutting lines like record grooves blast away the silence big big bumps the better to not hear you with —my dear— the better to not hear that little voice...

The Zamo the Destroyer Show #216

New episode of The Zamo the Destroyer Show: Technical Support Monkey’s brother has returned from Mexico empty-handed, and it turns out that Chimpette never did give him the list of Zamo’s deadbeat cousins with outstanding debts for him to collect for Iggy. On the plus side, he and Zamo...

Poem: Fierce

Leopard sheets daring —but— in a conventional way not unlike your brave declarations special but the same Are you really so fierce? —or all roar— no bite and blunted claws...