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The last bit of trivia…
On my last day on the island I proctored trivia night one last time. Took a while to get the questions posted here as I didn’t fly straight…
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More Trivia!
Apparently I was good enough to be allowed to run trivia here at the resort a second time (and then once more next week!) Here are the questions…
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Vacation Trivia
Stega is currently on vacation on a foreign island far far away from Purgatory. For part of the past week she was actually the only guest — technically…
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On reading
Yet another thing I wrote long ago “Consider thisThe hint of the centuryConsider thisThe slip that brought meTo my knees failedWhat if all these fantasiesCome flailing aroundNow I’ve…
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Remote Control (or a story in fragment)
On If I went to schoolI wouldn’t follow you.I’d find a universitywhere I could be myself.I’d make a difference–be more than just a number.For I want to be…
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Acorns
Back therea tree above the riverthat flows A town like any othernestled with it–stopping it–so that children smother Flooded memories hidden and weptdried by timelaughter That old oakshould have…
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Losing Pooh
Something I wrote a really long time ago Proposition: if, by some quirk of fate, I was teaching an English course, what book would I add to the…
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Edna and Ada
Something I wrote long ago. “There is a silence where hath been no sound There is a silence where no sound may be, In the cold grave–under the…
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Network Girl in a networking world…
Here they are….the parody lyrics I wrote years ago for the song “Barbie Girl” by Aqua (Male)- Hi, Network-Girl! – Hi, Ken! (Male)-I wanna go for a ride…
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Huck
Another thing I wrote long ago. Over the last one hundred years since its publication The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has managed to establish itself as a controversial…
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My Hero Beorn
Something I wrote long ago. It took me a while, but I finally managed to get through all of Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy-Stories”. I say finally because after…
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Fairy Tales
Something I wrote long ago. In the Complete Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm many of the stories tend to follow seemingly prescribed formulas, and while many of them differ…
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Electronic Postcards from the Past
Long ago it was briefly a thing to send electronic postcards….think e-cards but much simpler and they’d usually end up directly in your email, so no having to…
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A whirlwind trip taken long ago
I have been working to tidy up my digital bits. This includes going through old hardware as well as some old tarballs. One of the things I unburied…
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James in LaLa Land
Two years ago….pre-pandemic obviously….I flew down to Los Angelas for just a day. The reason was to see one of my favorite bands in concert at the Greek…
