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All Mimsy Were the Borogoves. Film at 11.

An old Facebook exchange. It started when I posted, “All mimsy were the borogoves. Film at 11.” A friend commented:“Eh? what do you mean?”   “Well,” I replied, “it all started with the slithy toves…” “Multiple calls to 911 indicated that there were gyring and gymbling far beyond what is allowed in ye wabe by-laws.” […]

My Car Accident with a Boat

I checked the driver’s side mirror. I looked out the at the oncoming traffic behind me. I perfectly clocked the speed and location of the car I was going to follow into traffic. I carefully pulled the car from the curb as the car went by and—

The Dream of Big Ego

Last night’s dream: Some event at someone’s house, where cows walking on hind legs were going in and out of the side door. (The Far Side, anyone?) The house and event became a new neighborhood evening music venue built by someone I apparently knew. It was bigger on the inside 😉 and filled with art […]

The Dream of the Spiral Parking Lot

The night before last I dreamed my car was stolen from a parking lot near a questionable Italian restaurant. I wanted to see the CCTV but something was in the way of the car so I couldn’t tell when it happened or who took it. It’s an old car but I was still unhappy about […]

I Gave My Umbrella to a Homeless Guy But Next Time?

(Thinking out loud, digitally.) Yesterday it was cold. It was rainy. It was exhilarating, unless you had to nowhere to take cover indoors in which case it was nasty. I saw a homeless guy on the sidewalk between the Rite Aid and the Staples store trying to wrap himself in a duvet, or maybe it […]

Winnie’s Chop Shop Tail

“On no,” you’re thinking. A story about a cat. Well, yes, but it’s Winnie, the Winnie of Winnie Wednesdays on Facebook (ok, that never really took off) and the Winnie for whom I wrote a poem. He’s exceptionally exceptional, this Winnie. He was described in PetFinders as a “Lynx Point Siamese,” when I was cat-hunting. […]