Torrential downpours, thunder, lightning - bring it on! I love Spring rains. Everything smells so fresh, the earth is alive - it's different than a winter rain. Although several days of gloom and grey skies do tend to throw me into melancholy, I am keeping my - trying to keep my - eye on the flowers and plants to come, the hours of sunlight and ( Read more... )

because gay literature must mean it's pornographic literature...

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A man in Grand Rapids , Michigan incredibly took out a $7000 full page ad in
the paper to present the following essay to the people of his community.

HOW COULD YOU? - By Jim Willis, 2001
When I was a puppy, I entertained you with my antics and made you laugh.( Sad but on the money, whether it is a cat or a dog, a rabbit... )

This is about parents who are kind of losing their threads. Come bill-paying time, Mom has new and exciting ways of paying bills each month; she likes the variety. Familiarity, after all, breeds contempt. Sometimes the bills are late, sometimes they are forgotten altogether. Sometimes she wants to be driven to the bank to pay them, sometimes she ( Read more... )

I awoke to the sound of various birdsong, and one in particular rang above the rest. I looked out my bedroom window to see a cardinal perched upon a branch of a budding maple, a small slash of bright red amid a sprinkling of deeper red-orange against the palest blue sky. He sat facing east, singing up the sun. A crying seagull joined in the chorus ( Read more... )

A Guy and his Lion FriendsI am in awe of things like this. They play with him as their own. I know something can go wrong, he does too. BUt, while it lasts... boy, I'd love to cuddle and scratch a lion like I do my 15-pound Tabby... Oh, my gosh, when the lions began to roar, I got fear tears! It's so wonderful, even though they are no longer in the ( Read more... )

He was HUGE. And FIERCE-looking. Sitting atop the cross bar of my swing, just looking around. I stepped into the sun room and stopped dead in my tracks upon seeing him through the large window, he was that formidable. I was able to take a lousy picture of him from my office window, and as I went back to the sun room, as I lifted my camera, he flew ( Read more... )

Anti-Blasphemy Resolution

Things are going pretty well here at Ye Olde Edityng Shoppe. We have signed up enough work to last us a few months, but new clients are what usually pay bills until the work gets done on scheduled projects, so a nice rushing stream of newbies would be ideal, BUT! Things are going well. People are signing up, here and there, and I am going to be ( Read more... )

Someone "shreds" over Eddie Van Halen's Playing

Oh my god, Mark... He's playing with Tony Levin in this one. This is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. They don't give props to the person who is really playing!