Category Archives: Everything Else Drawer

Someone’s Sleeping, Lord

We tend to surround ourselves with like-minded thinkers; people who understand, if not agree with our politics, our, as Ignatius J. Reilly would say, “world view”, and our humour. By and large. We have small differences here and there, but for the most part the lion, it is said, does not lay with the lamb. [...]

You Make the Whole World Go Around

I have to say this. Because it’s weighing on my mind a lot (pun intended). Being fat is not funny. I don’t want to be called “Ruebenesque” (even if it’s spelled properly, which it very rarely is) or “curvy”. It’s horrible. I hate it. I hate everything about being fat. One of many, many, many [...]

Pimpin’

Okay. So this is happening. It’s a play, and I’m in it: But ‘cept tickets for Friday the 19th weren’t selling fast enough, so that show’s been cancelled. But I’d like to invite you to the play. I’d forgotten how much I missed this stuff. If you need more incentive than “cenobyte is in a [...]

Ask me

I have a question for you. Here is the preamble: people are, in general, awesome. Most people in the world are lovley, caring, giving humans. They want to share; they want to help. We’re conditioned to look for the bad bits, but if you switch that over to ‘look for the good bits’, your whole [...]

I’d like to be under the sea

Here’s my new favourite dress I always wanted. The photograph doesn’t do it justice. It’s a kind of frosted strawberry pink with lighter pink ruffs on the bottom which gradually fade to white. The belt is solid rhinestone and it’s actually a strapless little number. Contrary to what you might be thinking, it actually looks [...]

Tickets Please

I saw a ticket lying in the gravel by the side of the road. Really, it was just on the other side of the kerb from the parking lot. The ticket had once been red, half of one of those drink tickets or 50-50s you buy at kids’ hockey games. It was soaked through from [...]

AMAZING STORIES!

Amazing Stories, the world’s first science fiction magazine, is now open to the public. Social Magazine Website Offers Nearly Sixty Writers and Social Networking For Fans! Experimenter Publishing Company Hillsboro, NH January 19, 2013 AMAZING STORIES are just one click away!TM The Experimenter Publishing Company is pleased to announce the reintroduction of the world’s most [...]

At the Bookshop

His Nibs: “I thought you said we could only have one book each.” Me: “I’m picking one out for the cat.” his Nibs: “The cat has no thumbs.” (note HN did not say ‘the cat cannot read’.) The Captain: “Hey. I thought you said we could only get one book each.” Me: “this is only [...]

A Conversation with His Nibs

His Nibs: “Ummmm. Why is there a handful of blue nitrite surgical gloves in the pocket of your pants?” me: “I have no idea, but was wondering where they went.” His Nibs: “…” me: “It seemed like a Good Idea when I was high on morphine, to grab a bunch of gloves from the hospital.” [...]

Breathe breath

1) If you need a tattoo to remind you to breathe, you probably ought to have some kind of permanently in-place guardian. Because usually, you know, breathing is part of your autonomic nervous system. Don’t get me wrong; I am not an “ableist”. I have nothing against people who need tubes to breathe because their [...]