Red Tin Noodles

Welcome to the new civil war. It looks like chairman T has got the floor. It’s not a filibuster, just overflowing bluster. He’s counting on his side for a big score. The bikers and militia … Read more

Electricity. What a cool invention. We used to have to heat by fire, torchlight for attention. Now we only flip a switch and on and off goes power. No more need of gaslit sconces in … Read more

Each birthday after seventy’s like going over par. The putts you dropped now roll aside. Your drive does not go far. The layups that were breakaways since days when you were small are now chased … Read more

DDE ruled the land of the free. He was born October fourteenth, like George Floyd. He helped win a world war, had a decent golfing score, so, it was Ike and Tricky Dick, into the void. … Read more

Mickey D’s not clownin’ any more. Ronald’s been laid off, and is he sore! His giant red hair wasn’t meant to scare, but frightened little children to their core. Killer clown with trail of beef … Read more

All the pollen is gone from the flowers, and the bees who had worked there for hours have all disappeared. It’s just as we feared. Fall has fallen and now nature cowers. Cold moves in … Read more

America is a Fantasy Park. The light side’s on the left. The right side’s in the dark. The Gates of Hell are in Las Vegas, tourist destination. And any city street stands as a Mecca of … Read more

Surf City’s decimated by a big oil spill. Bill Shatner’s going off to space. He’s got some time to kill. It looks like Mister Bezos this time plays the role of Spock. Perhaps they can … Read more

He slips in while the trees still have their leaves. In fact, you might still be dressed in short sleeves. Where green and lush abound, there’ll soon be on the ground great piles of nature’s … Read more

Delete Red. Green is new. Sip with caution. Poultry, too. Watch that sunset. Bail that lift. What’s a Magi With no gift?

This could be our last warm day. Summertime has gone away. No more time for livin’ easy. Fall will descend, cool and breezy. Soon the leaves will be aflutter. Piling in the lawn and gutter. … Read more

The cruelty factory is giving out rebates for tortures unseen and ominous fates For confessions extracted, new law’s been enacted. Makes pain mandatory. It’s tied in with glory. Passed in a landslide, wherein a few died. … Read more

Thrown open are the windows and fresh banana peels to the crows! The hawk has paid a visit. After rains he frequently shows up at the top of the tallest tree outside my window, where, … Read more

My heart is scarred. I’ve been disbarred from life’s most supreme court. I hope to squeeze some living in despite time being short. A car needs a new battery. Perhaps that’s what’s wrong with me. … Read more

Ghost forests on the coast and penguins killed by bees. Looks as though this climate roast will have us on our knees. Hurricane debris piles up and leaves an awful stench. We’re bailing with a … Read more

Let’s bring the wooly mammoth back to life. It’s time we start to practice ‘de-extinction.’ Genetically reengineered elephants would save the tundra. That is their distinction. The herds would roam the Arctic with its melting … Read more

The Lone Ranger did not age too well, grew old living in a masked-man’s hell. But, way before the cowboy hat, he was a circus acrobat. He modeled and did Air Force time, then came the role … Read more

The junta of General Augusto Pinochet took control in a Chilean coup on this day, deposing President Salvadore Allende, whose own democracy was seen as in their way. Some said this had the smell of … Read more

Scientists, perhaps, have found a Planet Nine to replace dear old Pluto, for whom we all still pine. Could be a cold gas giant, much bigger than the Earth, somewhere outside of Neptune, six times … Read more