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From a few years back… YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE You only live once, that’s how it goes. One life and you’re gone, most evidence shows. ...

There's a blackboard in one of my classrooms—actually both, since I take both classes in the same room on different days—with some writi...

Freckles Friendly A lot of people, when they talk about their life, Say, “Sure, I did what I did. I had no choice.” I’m not judging...

I've written a reel. Wrote it on January 11, 2017, and on the 16th, I took it to my regular Monday Irish jam group, who liked it and pla...

DOROTHY “DOT” POLKA Names are destiny. You have to choose carefully. Dad and Mom loved to dance. They were the Polkas! They thought...

. It's been a while, but the epitaphs keep on coming: RICHARD $ RICH, JR. I had wealthy friends, but I preferred the poor kid...

. The direct stimulus: (((Queer Xopher))) ‏ @ Halftongue 4h 4 hours ago   Today's dream retrieval: "Those feet are cov...

A wasted figure sits at his computer, laboriously entering characters one by one, using his eye movements to guide the cursor. He is used t...

. Little mice, trussed up so nice,  Are roasting on the grill. Oh! what fun when they are done,  For kats to eat their fill! Al...

It was that dream again. Citizen Tromm perched awkwardly in a student-chair a decade too small for him, shivering a little as his hand, see...

. This is from a seven-inch LP that was sent out to retailers to promote the Titano "Sounds Great" accordion, back in the 60s. It...

I have previously linked to a work of genius from 1915 (I was thinking 1908 before, for some undoubtedly persuasive at the time reason),...

. It's been quite a semester. I took a sociology class and did okay, and at the same time, I took a figure drawing class (okay, not sim...

Back in 1992, Jerry Beck sent out a survey that went to various animation people, including members of an animation APA (Amateur Press Asso...

My — our — longtime friend, Cuyler Warnell "Ned" Brooks, Jr., was repairing his roof today, fell off, and has died. Ned was a go...

I awoke, free of consumption and my mortal body, in a rather indefinite place without light or darkness in it. A disembodied voice was ...

. I think that I shall never see A pervert sicker than a tree. A tree that squats on Nature's breast And spews its seed upon her ch...

I was fairly relaxed that morning, just lying in. Nowhere I had to go that early in the day, nobody expected anything from me. I wasn't...

This, to me, is proof that P.J. O'Rourke used to be funny, and not just when he was a commie agitator thinking of ways to put tits in th...

Overanalysis, based on the stuff I've written on my copy of the music. Unlike a lot of pieces, where I've written just a coup...