Monthly Archives: February 2015

In tribute to the 40th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, I give you this obscure reference…

Don’t look at my monkey, cheeky bum…

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You know, it might just turn out that religion and science are not mutually exclusive…

But if you are one of those people who believe that science is just a superstition and that religious writings from centuries ago hold all the answers to everything we need to know… well… I hope this picture didn’t make your head … Continue reading

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I made a new friend yesterday…

Oh… sorry… wait… you got a little something in your teeth… and that really isn’t a good picture… There she is, my new buddy. I had to get up at four in the morning to drive my youngest daughter to … Continue reading

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The Valentine’s Day post to end all Valentine’s Day posts… because I basically recycled all my old posts about hearts, love and Valentine’s Day into one, single post…

I have always wondered why we picked the heart as the human organ to represent love… What about our hands? Of all the senses, surely touch is one of the most important when it comes to love. The feeling of … Continue reading

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Breaking news!!!

According to Facebook, my new little cousin, Clark, whom you might remember from the pictures of our Christmas trip to the Bay Area, is suffering from a horrible rash that has swollen his lips up until they look like a … Continue reading

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Oh for cryin’ out loud… stop whining about the snow… nobody made you live where you have to dig your car out from under a mountain of frozen water…

Seriously, we here in San Diego have our own winter-related problems. It has been uncomfortably hot, for one thing. I almost had to turn the air conditioner on yesterday. And not a fun hot. No, the dry Santa Ana winds … Continue reading

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Identity crises… a game…

As near as I can figure out, I am an ancient, semi-mythical King, who comes from a very wealthy English family and I have a drinking problem, but I am also Scottish and invented a famous detective… (and have the … Continue reading

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The drug companies spend more on advertising than they do on research or adequate long-term safety testing of the drugs they sell you…

Oh, and they also channel huge amounts of money into the pockets of doctors in this country to try to get them to prescribe meds to you… even if you don’t actually need those meds…and also they are trying to … Continue reading

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The Heirloom… part 1…

The Heirloom… part 1 by Arthur Browne Titius Veranus took a moment to straighten his back as he sat upon the stool. It felt so good that he continued the motion, curving his spine past its normal, upright position. He … Continue reading

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Just got back from the dentist…

And it felt a little like this…

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