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My Roommate Soup’s Final Resting Place. (One of them…)

I made a box for my late roommate Soup. Soup was not a human. Soup was a cat . Soup was not my cat. My friend Jen was Soup’s human, and we all used to be roommates some time ago in a house in Berkeley, California. (Jen is a musician who plays for The Hammerbombs …

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When you’re talking to someone and you get all “…”

My blogging career started on Livejournal, oh so many moons ago. I no longer use Livejournal, but I have archived all of my entries and occasionally check them out. This post was from a few years ago. I was at my German speaking group and I was talking to a vegan about Sarah Kramer, a …

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Matucha Of Berkeley’s Famous Pressure-cooked Hackey Sacks

Matucha Of Berkeleys Famous Pressure-cooked Hackey Sacks With Pixie Stix And Moonshine You can find this recipe here! Prepare a large quantity of Hackey Sacks for cooking. Combine Pixie stix, coffee grounds, Potting mix, and bread crumbs in a small bowl – sprinkle Hackey Sacks with Pixie stix mixture. Place Hackey Sacks in a circular …

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From the LiveJournal Archives: When La Vida Loca Follows You Around…

My blogging career started on Livejournal, oh so many moons ago. I no longer use Livejournal, but I have archived all of my entries and occasionally check them out. This is a post I wrote nearly four years ago in January of 2016. The woman in question is currently MIA, though I do still wonder …

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The one time I went Christmas Caroling

Christmas caroling is considered to be quite old fashioned around these parts, but it was still, (sort of,) a thing when I was younger. It was not such a thing that I ever considered going Christmas Caroling. Christmas singing was common enough during the holiday season, but not so much caroling. Nevertheless I did go …

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Bit Characters Gone Wild – The Writing Process

“…don’t pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don’t.” – Anne Lamott I’m currently working on my next novel, What the Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko? I’m not spending as much time on the work as I would like at the moment, but I’m filling in more of the …

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From the Livejournal Archives: Boring and Interesting

My blogging career started on Livejournal, oh so many moons ago. I no longer use Livejournal, but I have archived all of my entries and occasionally check them out. This is a piece I wrote almost 17 years ago entitled Boring and Interesting, in which I reference the 80’s British show The Young Ones to …

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Gender Swap Casting: Road Warrior

(AKA Mad Max 2 in certain locales!) What is gender swap casting you say? Recently on Facebook, in the Wake of the recent and controversial Joker movie, I was inspired by a tweet by blogger Geraldine DeRuiter who said the Joker should be a woman. I asked my Facebook friends about a theoretical Joker movie …