Red Tin Noodles

So, he went to the bunker, but just to inspect. If he’d gone there to cower, his base would object. He sees his command as to serve and protect all the good white civilians, as … Read more

Hibernation ends with spring, rousing every living thing. Tracks in snow quite near deck stairs could be dog’s or could be bear’s. It’s been shown that our bird treats suffice for a bear’s first eats. … Read more

When April’s rains make ground a bog, some wet enough to float a log, the peeking flowers give us hope, we search the sky for sun, but, nope, the clouds still need a bit more … Read more

I’m not a man of grace. In fact, I can be mean. I don’t respect the president, the papacy or queen. There is only one thing that I love, and this is true. There’s one … Read more

‘Shrooms of all kinds play with our minds, infold like little umbrellas. Some that you find could be unkind. They can be rough little fellas. But everyone loves a Shiitake. Their energy makes you feel … Read more

Imagine getting old enough to teach a grandson dice games. Never happen. There will be holograms programmable on your home court. Or headset participation: you are guarding Gary Payton, hooking over Alcindor. Athletes will become … Read more

The Tsar made me do it. I didn’t quite think through it. Convinced me that collusion was nothing but illusion. I wanted a hotel and figured what the hell. I guessed I could get by by … Read more

Bats flew like helicopters from stadiums, sandlots and parks, all across the sports-infected country. It was the first protest of its kind. Inappropriate usage of trees, they ranted. Last year they’d ruined dear football with … Read more

  Mowers and crowers are waking the tired. It’s Monday morning: get up or get fired. It’s just the start of a very long day. Grass must be cut and then birds fly away. Come … Read more

  Let the dusk take the day, let the night wash away all the hours of sadness and doubt. Like a dirty old shirt, we’re awash in work dirt and we can’t leave ’til they … Read more

  I won’t say Brett’s the last straw, and straws are out of favor, but this last week has rubbed me raw, think I’m in mental labor. No meals on wheels, back alley deals, to … Read more

Pruitt ain’t gonna do it to our environment no more. He’d kill a forest, just plow right through it, and use as dump the ocean floor. But he got greedy, and much too needy, for … Read more

He took the ‘tweeners to the cleaners. He just couldn’t be much meaner. He’d start a fight and then he’d walk away. You’d think that that was it, but not so with this shit. He’d … Read more

  When water’s taken Florida and made some brand new beaches, Elites will sit upon the hill, out of extinction’s reaches. There, out of the flames’ dire reach, they’ll sit and sip their toddy, the … Read more

  A Frank Blair (1915) hologram bleakly announces the death of Sun Ra (’93). So opens the new Howard Hawks (1896) film, a bizarre new take on the murder of Joan of Arc in 1431, … Read more

Thoughts and prayers go out to bears whom hunters can now stalk inside their den. That’s not the only rub: they now can shoot the cub. O, what it takes to create manly men! And … Read more