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Just Can’t Do That Marie Kondo Thing
Friends, Romans, Enemies, dogs, cats, fish… I have exciting news for you! I am leaving this website behind (well, mostly, kind of, sort of, a bit) and moving to a new one. Yes, you heard me right. I am abandoning Read More …
Alcohol, Canada, and the CCSA Report: The Devil’s in the Details
Alcohol is back in the news in Canada and the new report from The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) is making waves. The CCSA report updates their guidelines on safe alcohol consumption, and this is the first Read More …
SONNET
My only love sprung from my only hate,Too early seen, and known too late:Prodigious birth of love it is to meThat I must love a loathed enemy.Without this be the miracle, the feat,The same, who through sharp fire and edge-tools,And Read More …
The Epitaph of the House of P
(a poem, of sorts, written by my AI and me) we learned to dress without fearwe learned to make our own luckwe learned to never say no to anyonewe learned the hard waywe fought back against fearwe fought back against Read More …
Godzilla Eating Facebook
As the Godzilla age beganI was already a man. Though I do not know my age,I do remember my youth. I did not know what would come,But I knew — yes, somehow, I knew. Without warning it cameThat day when Read More …
No Place For People (a poem, of sorts)
Marvin and I went to the moon in the early light and I said: “I’m sorry we’re herebut this is the only way to get away from people.” Without the roar of their engines, without the blaring of their Horns.Without their Read More …
The Porcupine’s Quill
I write for you and for myself and for no one else not for money or for fame or to impress those who don’t know me.So I try to write the way I would speak,if that were still possible—direct and Read More …
What if knowledge of Star Trek, including the original series and at least one spinoff, was a requirement for voting?
Yes, of course I’m serious. What if a deep working knowledge of Star Trek, including the original series and at least one of the spinoffs, was a requirement for voting? This might seem like a far-fetched idea, but bear with Read More …
Stephanie Confronts The Poetry Robot
To the poetry robot’s home, no right,no wrong,no rain, no sun, no wet or dry to speak of.Without a home it has nothing;without a body it cannot have a thought.Stephanie walked the halls turning each corner slowly and carefully, searching Read More …