In the Woods Today

My Christmas card for 2006.
It was done using Paint – a bitmap program. Have a look at it on Flickr as it has much better resolution there.
I make cards every year for my family and close friends – have for decades.This year though, there was little response to the card. My dad finally mentioned [...]

Protocol for Threats of Imminent Suicide

Yesterday my Friend insisted I read the web log of a colleague, Molly Holschlag. I don't know Molly aside from hearing about her and her many successes. I've never spoken with her and I'm not in her field. So why the urgency from my friend?
This is why:
"I am sitting in a hotel room in [...]

Minx Mash

From my Right Honorable friend from his misreading of Little Minx's quoting his Uruguayan friend, who's English may not be perfect, in a somewhat All Your base must belong to us fashion emerged:
"That international gay man is carrying the new bag".
Willingly admitting his error my friend points out that he, "like Star [...]

A Hairy, Scary Stare

Hairy, Scary, Stare
From the age of 14 when showers were first required after gym (and a good idea too), I was the tallest and hairiest beast in the locker room. With newly elongated limbs, I was also the most uncoordinated. I dreaded the locker room, the towel whips and cruel taunts my classmates had to [...]

Becoming David

This is Michelangelo’s most famous sculpture, the David. It’s important to us gay fellas because this piece, more than any other in the public’s consciousness, marks a return to the ideals of absolute beauty of Antiquity. David is an icon of the male form. He is what a man should look like. He is [...]

No Nap

50 words
Field  callWatching  blinking chatDon’t answer thatWarm bedRetreat aheadTime fliesThoughts buzzInsert pillMuscles tenseNoises shrillAdrenaline denseSqueeze eyesBody liesDrift offSnap backNo slackNo sleepBut dream deepBeep beepI loseNo snoozeIt’s a trapNo nap.

Wake Up

50 words
BlinkEyes pinkShort phrasesIn PhasesTwo craziesPull outToo crazyMove onToo lazyShip outChain DasiesToo lateDate dueWho knewResidueDoubt lingersKids fingersBad singersDog stretchingEyes waitingSun fetchingCold anticpiationSleep’s imanicipationTime’s tooTime toWake up.

Text on Bottles of Drugs, iv through viii

Sub-level ii of the meme ‘text on things’.Text on BOTTLES of Drugs iv, v, vi, and vii, including half empty bottles of medication which were – at some point in the last twelve months – discontinued because they could not longer be tolerated.

Text on Drugs in Bottles iv, WELLBUTRIN
A squarish white plastic bottle [...]

Text on Drugs iii

With appologies to the real Text on Thing’ers. You can see their frightfully accurate work here, or even here. Is there such a thing a sub-meme?
It has occured to me that in documneting the text on anything, one may be contributing to a sort of twenty first century enclopedia gone mad.
Text on Drugs iii: Seroquel.
A [...]

Text on Drugs ii

Text on Drugs ii, Second Installment:
I’m developing my own protocol – how dare I ? – simply because I have no idea what the protocol for the real /original Text on Things is .Proposed is the following: A sub-meme in a style suited to Text on Drugs because as far as I know I [...]