Category Archives: Stories of my life

The long and sordid tale of how and why I started stalking celebrities on Twitter and how it led to me being followed by Eric Idle of Monty Python fame and Dana Carvey from Saturday Night Live…

Posted on March 26, 2015 by pouringmyartout

It all started, as a surprising number of things in my life do, as a harmless joke. A little more than a year ago, when my older daughter Jessica was still in college, I found out that she was on Twitter. … Continue reading →

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Holy crap… Eric Idle is following me on Twitter…

Posted on March 26, 2015 by pouringmyartout

Details to follow…

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I went back in time… part 4…

Posted on March 10, 2015 by pouringmyartout

These are the last of the pictures that Uncle Bert took at the civil war reenactment. I love that one. He used a Photoshop filter to give it the sepia tones of the old photos from that era. I still … Continue reading →

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I went back in time… part 3…

Posted on March 9, 2015 by pouringmyartout

Yup… they actually let me put the explosive primer caps into the top of the cannon and pull the lanyard that ignited the charge and set off the gunpowder inside the cannon. That is the actual cannon that was used during … Continue reading →

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I went back in time… part 2…

Posted on March 9, 2015 by pouringmyartout

Ten points if you noticed that I am not wearing any shoes… They didn’t have any size 15 shoes in the bins of spare uniform parts where they kept extra stuff for temporary volunteers like me. So I fired a … Continue reading →

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What did I do yesterday??? I went back in time…

Posted on March 8, 2015 by pouringmyartout

We went to see a little civil war reenactment in Vista, California yesterday, and I got recruited by the Richmond Howitzers. I have actually been thinking about joining one of these reenactment groups for quite a while, but I was … Continue reading →

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I made a new friend yesterday…

Posted on February 15, 2015 by pouringmyartout

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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Even more shameless self-promotion…

Posted on December 12, 2014 by pouringmyartout

I just went into a little custom T-shirt shop near my house and ordered a shirt with this original design… I had it printed on a white shirt, so that is just about what it will look like. I threw in … Continue reading →

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I have two ideas for my next children’s book… and one of them might get me in trouble…

Posted on December 5, 2014 by pouringmyartout

I have this old cartoon story I started way back when I was a teenager about a wizard named Gad who creates the universe and everything in it… I scanned it and began some preliminary work on cleaning up the artwork … Continue reading →

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Bacon, rattlesnakes, spotty horses, sugar cookies… and other things that remind me of Thanksgiving…

Posted on December 2, 2014 by pouringmyartout

Well, thanks to our recent computer malfunctions, I never did share any pictures of our Thanksgiving. But I am not going to bore you with pictures of tasty turkey… Ha!!! I lulled you into a false sense of security and … Continue reading →

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