Lazy Sunday on Jan 27, 2013 in ITunes Health Television IPhone Arizona Laziness Financial Times IPad Starting today's blog commentary with a pleasant painting by Bob Ross, Joy Of Painting fame, I usually watch this on a morning before I hit the road for work, he is a skilled guy I don't like painting but he makes it look easy, almost accessible whic...
Top 45 Horror Films Ever! on Jan 22, 2013 in The Shining (film) Film Hobo with a Shotgun VHS Sundance Film Festival Glasgow Film Festival Horror film Blair Witch Project I've decided it's about time I made up a list of my top 40-odd something or other to entertain the audience. Obviously it would be too easy to put the entire top 45 here at once so I've decided to do it in weekly installments leading up to that scari...
Time Travel on Jan 19, 2013 in People Mount Kilimanjaro False Accusations George Monbiot Travel insurance Violence and Abuse Men Gap year My car now has bumper stickers. My favorite was one I found that says "My other car is a Pynchon Novel". Pynchon is an eccentric novelist who writes complex, eclectic pieces that are rather challenging to read. Mention one to an English teacher and t...
It's The End Of The World As We Know It...And I Feel Fine. on Jan 17, 2013Kim Jong-Un of North Korea tested a bomb the other day; he detonated a puny nuclear device. This means the end of the world is near, right? Maybe, but I’ve heard this song before. For me, growing up in the 70s and 80s meant Russia was going to anni...
Moon Landing on Jan 17, 2013 in Moon We were scheduled to do a writing exercise in my creative writing course. The assignment was to get into a group of three and select an event in history; anywhere in history. Then, each member will write about the event from a different perspective o...
The Bus Station on Jan 17, 2013I have a story of my own in Korea. I flew into South Korea from Japan the week before the summer games were to begin in Seoul. My wife was already at her parents house and I was going to meet them. Anyway, from the airport in Seoul I made my way to a...
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Proximity on Aug 30, 2012There is something to this kind of nearness, say, to having admired a person after long years of living together, to learning his stories and the realizations behind them, the cheerful voice that comes out of him before a persuasive meal, the silly t...
Missing Leon on Aug 29, 2012My Father / January 2, 2012 Stares and Silences I USED TO LIVE IN TABON-TABON, a remote barrio in Tandag - a place where people wake up early to the crowing of roosters and the downfall of dawn. People here wash clay pots at a nearby well, chop logs...
Then, We Went Home on Aug 4, 2012In May's low lights he waved at me from the streetside, Already with a bottle of rum in his left side Pocket, while across the street, back to the local inn, A young couple noisily roistered in. He watched me grin at this afterplay's moment. My wear...
