This week’s Trifextra challenge is to write a piece between 33 and 333 words using the three words listed below. The words must each appear in the piece in the order given.
1 – cacophony
2 – soap
3 – insects Read the rest of this entry »
Trifextra – “restoration”
Posted: April 6, 2012 in FictionTags: challenge, Empire State Building, fiction, life, medicine, New York, restoration, Trifextra, writing
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13 virtues
Posted: April 4, 2012 in Humorous BitsTags: 13 virtues, Ben Franklin, humor, humour, life, tribbles
Good old Benjamin Franklin, now there was a man with a plan. At the age of 20 young Ben decided to give his life some moral structure and devised “13 virtues” to help develop and improve his character. Pretty heady stuff for a 20 year old, right? At 20 I was still mixing reds and whites in my college laundry and then wondering why my underwear came out pink. All I’m saying is I could’ve used guidance. Read the rest of this entry »
shorts: 5
Posted: April 3, 2012 in ArtsTags: Ben Stiller, Donald Westlake, Facebook, film, Hannibal Lecter, Marx Brothers, movies, Paris, reviews, shorts, Up, Woody Allen
Mercy me, the time has come to roll out the next 10 “Shorts” film reviews. What this deal is all about, including all reviewed films, can be found on the Shorts page. Have fun disagreeing!
Meet the Parents (2000) – Further proof you can wring all the good comedy out of a premise in one movie. (3½) – 4/3/12
Cops and Robbers (1973) – I love Donald Westlake’s books, but Read the rest of this entry »
spring fling
Posted: April 1, 2012 in New Jersey, PhotographyTags: beach, life, nature, New Jersey, ocean, Photography, spring
This is the perfect time of the year for the beach. The crowds are elsewhere, not particularly interested in land’s end if they can’t lie on the sand and soak up the sun. Not especially intrigued since the carnival attractions remain Read the rest of this entry »
Trifextra – “hypnagogia”
Posted: March 30, 2012 in FictionTags: challenge, dream, fiction, horror, hypnagogia, Trifextra, writing
This weekend’s Trifextra challenge: Write a horror story in 33 words, without the words blood, scream, died, death, knife, gun, or kill. Read the rest of this entry »
tis the season when thoughts turn to malfeasance
Posted: March 27, 2012 in Humorous Bits, New JerseyTags: criminal life, dumb laws, frown, homing pigeon, hoosegow, humor, humour, knitting, laws, New Jersey, rotten egg, soup, spring
Spring brings a change in attitude. Some folks feel a lifting of the spirit, a loosening of the depressive chains brought on by winter’s short days and cold weather. Others anxiously anticipate the blossoming of trees and plants, the renewal of nature’s life cycle. Children begin to sense the possibilities of summer and no school. Baseball fans embrace misplaced hope, convinced this will be the season their team finally wins. Everything blooms Read the rest of this entry »
gnome homes
Posted: March 25, 2012 in New Jersey, PhotographyTags: Columbia Trail, gnome, gnome home, lovely Ms. Trask, New Jersey, Photography, quirky, random, Red, tradition
#10 Columbia Trail
Yesterday Red, the lovely Ms. Trask, my sister and her handsome brood spent part of the afternoon walking along the Columbia Trail in northern Jersey. It was my sis’ suggestion, a way to get out and enjoy the weather, threatening as it was. She and her running coven regularly Read the rest of this entry »
Trifextra – “surprise”
Posted: March 23, 2012 in FictionTags: challenge, fiction, Trifextra, writing
This weekend’s Trifextra challenge: We are giving you the first 33 words of a story. You need to complete it with 33 of your own words.
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hoo-ha’s and dimwhittles
Posted: March 22, 2012 in PhotographyTags: albums, art, editing, growing pains without Kirk Cameron, humor, humour, Mickey Rourke, Photography, random, software, Van Gogh, Wilderstein
I was leafing through my digital photo files as one with digital photo files tends to do when I happened upon the thing above created sometime during Dubya’s Reign of Mispronunciation. When I first began diddling with photography back in the olden days of aught 5 I quickly became enamored with the various hoo-ha’s and dimwhittles available in your basic photo editing software packages. (Or was it aught 4? Maybe aught 3? I ought to know, but I asking me to remember that far back is like Read the rest of this entry »
climb
Posted: March 21, 2012 in Observations and CommentaryTags: America, American life, climb, expectation, life, Photography, random, society, success
Welcome to your American Experience, child. It holds great promise. Enjoy yourself, but know that your life comes with my expectations. Embrace the freedom to do what you want. However, above all else remember your ultimate purpose – to Read the rest of this entry »
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