My brother Joel died 3 months before the birth of his only grandchild. Today is David's 1st birthday. He's a whopper, 30 lbs. 4 teeth, crawling and pulling up but not walking yet. Learning new words every day. Blows kisses to say goodbye.  This is me and my grand nephew, David. 

Pretty men and women in myth and legend.  (link opens in a separate window) Recently saw an article here about AI. I use AI to help me clarify and define story ideas. Usually I start with some random thing I think of and see where it goes. This is a discussion I had with Meta.  This starts with a discussion of the idea of the "Man that all women love" trope. It's a standard in certain...

Let's see, I do not, and have never, owned a cell phone or tablet. I feel that they are a huge invasion of privacy. Not just the endless sales/scam calls, although those too. But I watch too much court tv and the main evidence in trial after trial is from the cellphone. I mean,yeah, you can leave your phone at home while you crime. But the average person gets videoed like 20 some times a day....

It's been a long time. I see you lot are as hopelessly mired as ever. None of you have moved, none have budged. Still not having any fun. Thank goodness for A. Mac. Let's see some songs with bad words. I'll start as always. Thomas Benjamin, a man with 2 first names and a lot to say, most if it dirty. Well This Is Shit In case there was any doubt he will say what he thinks. I've No...

Media is a funny word, funny concept too. The type of media does influence the message. Not going to get into newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, etc.  This isn't about that kind of media.  I thought we might try something different.  We've done videos with smoking, animation, men's names, cover songs, and cheating songs. (I'm working up a new slant on the cheating songs thing, maybe I'll have...

A couple weeks ago I watched an old movie, The War Between Men and Women. The male lead, played by Jack Lemmon, was loosely based on the artist, James Thurber. It was a good movie, bit dated, but one thing really struck me about it.  All the smoking!!  People were smoking everywhere, trains, cars, in public, in buildings, while others were eating, as they were eating,  around children.  I was...

Crack Whore. Crack Whore. Crack Whore.My granddaughter is almost 3. She's learning to talk at a really amazing rate. She is learning new words, repeating phrases, even entire sentences that she hears us say, and saying things that we never taught her. I've been fussing at her grandmother and her mom, both of them potty mouths, about their language around the kid. They ARE getting better,...

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.I call it 'Someti-heimers', like Alzheimer's with a mulligan. It really pisses me off when it happens too. For me it's usually names, I've never been good with names. I can remember things about the person, places we'd been, things we'd talked about, but not the name! At least not when I'm trying to...