Crazy Real

Crazy is its own reality.

We Always Need the Rain

Drunk with the storm

The trees

Full of green

Bend and sway in the wind

As if choreographed by Twyla Tharp

Soft then sharp

The leaves make jazz hands

Connected then separate then connected

Partners then soloists then partners again

Birds take shelter

Puffed out balls of feathers 

In the broken flower pots

That sit in the corner of the back porch

The birdfeeder is empty

Rain water rattles through the gutters

Unheard by the sullen birds

A voice says, "We need the rain"

We always need the rain

It gives the trees a chance to dance

The Zoetrope Joke

A time machine appears outside the blacksmith's shop in 1880 Portsmouth. The Blacksmith stops his work, resting his hammer on the anvil and watches as three people exit the time machine; a Doctor, a Lawyer, and an Indian Chief.

My War With Chipmunks

Ironically, "Chip and Dale" were two of my childhood favorite cartoon characters.

Classic 50s "Chip and Dale;" not the lame "Rescue Rangers" reboot.

Now all I can do is wonder how such loathsome, thieving rodents could ever have been made to look cute. Damn you, Walt Disney!

Historical Arguments

If I was a historian, I think I'd be asking myself, "Am I just wasting my time?"

It was said, by someone much smarter than me, that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." You would think that would make history and historians pretty important and yet, historians appear to be the Cassandra of academics. 

The Dude Entanglement

The Dude abides.

There are movies that I can watch - will watch - any time I happen upon them, regardless of where it is in the narrative. These aren't "I missed the beginning" movies. These are repeated experience "I love this movie" movies.  "The Big Lebowski" is one of those movies. 

Really Real

Is reality so complex, so multifaceted, such a large data sample that it's impossible to tell it from even a poorly constructed fiction?

Or are people just stupid?

I suppose it could be both.