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- beyond the pale (orange)
- taking a timeout
- double “oops!”
- one down, 99 to go
- about that oath
- a day of days
- the new ‘nam?
- semper fi, bro
- good call, Frank
- turning a huge corner, hopefully
- easing in autumn
- all is well, if not better
- hanging in there
- warrior culture v. toxic masculinity
- so it comes and goes
- faux autumn? we’ll take it
- we are your friends
- lest we forget
- first contact
- hanging in there
- I spoke too soon
- inching August
- for your consideration
- Apocalypse Now and then
- the fiendish thingy
- Redskins? Whitey, please.
- the plot, unlike Trump’s hair, thickens
- weasels by the bucketful
- summer oatmeal
- let the bad times roll
- another modest proposal
- an even huger “Whew!”
- the birds and the beavers
- let the warm times roll!
- spring can really hang you up the most
- you call this a riot?
- so far, so good, so solar
- when is that change gonna come?
- still thinking of you, Eddie
- family v. Phelps
- Lee and Annabel
- Spring? Is that you?
- another sure sign of spring
- thank you for dropping in
- artisanal mulch
- May the first be with you
- page turn north of the artificially drawn line
- thank you, Donald Trump
- big doings up north
- a sure sign of spring
- how ’bout that Sequim, Washington, eh?
- apocalypse soon enough
- the April fool
- in the red
- my bad
- counting the hours
- in the green
- keeping it in perspective
- bottomless Trump
- AN apocalypse, maybe not THE apocalypse
- made it! yet again!
- not technically spring, but you can see it from here
- fucking February
- trudging along
- Pacific Northwest pie in the face
- heaven freezes over
- the upside of the downslope
- smooth introspective music continues
- let the sunshine (back) in
- Trump, please
- starting the stretch
- strong winds abounding
- sending in the clowns
- lest we forget
- well, shit
- laying low
- counting it down
- letting the days go by
- waiting for Milton
- a much needed, much deserved, much-appreciated final stretch
- same shit, different decade
- here’s to you, Mister Robinson
- allow me to clarify
- catless children
- let’s get at least this one thing straight
- dishonourable conduct
- joyful v. joyless, smile v. scowl
- good one, Michelle
- TAMPONS AND EAGLE CORPSES EVERYWHERE!!!
- our story thus far
- not rabbit hole, wild hare hole
- Trump’s Apocalypse Now More Than Ever campaign
- thank you for your service, J.D.
- an inconvenient incest
- Aging Orange is yellow
- wow!
- WHEW!!!
- nearly at a loss for words
- still finding the cost of freedom
- snakes on everything
- saying goodbye to the Say Hey Kid
- plugging along
- for your consideration
- fresh worry
- at last
- April, go she will
- all clear
- looking past the eclipse
- no particular tomfoolery this April 1st
- checking in
- The Crimson Loogie
- wintry mix, my ass
- enough the snow
- the curse of interesting times
- the home stretch (sort of)
- wintry matters
- the darkest month
- settling in
- semper fi
- just sayin’
- energy galore
- again with the waiting
- waiting for surgery, rain and the apocalypse
- medically pleasant
- farewell, Bill and Jimmy
- five pounds of pee
- Allen in the alcove
- a minor gripe on a major holiday
- summer of hate
- hoisting one for Eddie
- April is the cruelest month
- the five-month winter
- let the foolery commence (continue, really)
- world be spinning faster than usual
- the endless winter
- not the debut I’d hoped for
- down the home stretch yet again
- still inheriting that wind
- Georgia back on my mind
- havoc in the House
- mid-winter report
- and we’re off
- another modest proposal
- George Santos . . . Trailblazer!
- cue The Light
- it really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas
- my yuletide gift to you
- Georgia off my mind
- my night with Herschel Walker
- baby, it’s cold inside
- zombie mice
- pardon my math
- parsing the pieces
- Whew!
- don’t pay that ransom
- still missing that vootie
- I kid you not, this day of kidding
- tough to find the words
- my toonie’s worth
- a most welcome clarification
- new vooties
- still slouching toward normalcy
- until the next vootie
- slouching toward normalcy
- the weather up here
- I went to Paris
- so, how ya doin’?
- how Greene is my country?
- all props to Liz Cheney
- Matt, I hope we hardly know ye
- a flock of four
- these lazy, hazy, crazy shards of winter
- send in the clones
- more wisdom from Blake
- Donald who?
- the wisdom of others
- six days and a wake-up
- short-timers, all
- giving thanks
- slouching toward normalcy
- WOW! WHEW!
- four more weeks! four more weeks!
- so long, “suckers”
- Episode 6: A New Hope
- rainy, with a ponderous zeitgeist
- oh, sad and happy day
- down to double digits
- unfuck you, Chuck
- thanks for asking, Al
- fuck you, Chuck
- fuck you, Tucker
- may this 4th stick with you
- Everybody look what’s going down
- Stop, Children. What’s that sound?
- the sunshine presidency
- nearly at a loss for words
- the next milestone in gravestones
- POTUS is AWOL
- coupla jokes for ya
- Dan Patrick’s dark secret
- for your enjoyment
- genuine March Madness
- where to begin?
- let the obfuscation begin
- take time to stop and smell the roadkill
- worst birthday gift ever
- Tom Cotton’s picky logic
- a Cat among cats
- this is priceless
- letting go
- caution: rant straight ahead
- the storm before The Storm
- your papa never told you about right or wrong
- did the healing just begin?
- Donald, you little Dickens
- here comes the candy
- deep breaths, everyone
- witches: 0; warlocks: 7
- thank you for your service, Omarosa
- the growing threat at the border
- easing back in
- safe at home
- the boy who decried Wolf
- and it got even worse
- Holy Shitstorm, Batman!
- happy 75th, LSD!
- “Roseanne” and Ronnie
- finally, now is the time to talk
- “not my crusade”
- happy Valentine’s Day, anyway
- the looming threat of lutefisk
- the anarchic story stump
- just like then, but 50 years later
- welcome back, brightness!
- the Moore we know
- what, if anything, was going through his head?
- oh, how the midgets have fallen!
- so long, Aging Orange
- “sacred”? jarhead, please
- Trump fiddles (around) while Santa Rosa burns
- taking a symbolic knee
- Caesar in September
- aardvarks and orgasms
- it’s all about that health . . . about that health . . .
- Linda Lee, you have been heard
- finally! a rich Caucasian male in the White House
- the silver lining in this shit storm
- keep on bikin’
- next for Pence: a paintball tournament
- Allen in Wonderland
- define “cookie”
- feel free to take a snow day
- it’s funny because it’s terrifying
- Bananas, Jabberwocky, Deadpool and Apocalypse Now
- our story thus far
- a thousand paper cuts
- next Brexit: Wexit
- at least he got into double digits
- today’s sunrise is encouraging
- they’re not kittens, but hopefully this will help
- Trump so dumb he think Aleppo is one of the Marx brothers
- who in blue blazer?
- this might help
- devil dogs and puppies
- oh, right . . . the chickens
- Slinkee (2004 – 2016)
- the oddest couple
- now he’s got Gloria Borger upset
- the plot thins
- room at the Inn
- Tim (c. 1956 – 2015)
- some Christmas cheer
- I’m still here
- a modest observation
- yet another two cents worth
- he likes me! he really likes me!
- the mightiest wind
- do let’s find the cost of freedom
- what the heck/fuck?
- time for a change
- losing our peninsula
- at long last, video
- to thine own scalp be true
- oh, that “Smell”!
- places, everyone
- sorry ’bout that
- checking in
- all I want for Christmas is my left front hip
- tarantula rain
- just nicked us, thanks
- there is “Joy” in Mudville
- back above the 49th, part two
- back above the 49th
- at last!, part deux
- at last!
- animal update
- hairy Houdini
- chicken check-in
- how many more times?
- as promised
- an abbreviated check-in
- continuing our complaining
- how we spent our weekend
- please to bear with me
- farewell, Fred
- and so it begins
- 63 days and still no collapse of Western civilization
- eyeing the finish line
- the downhill side
- Pete Seeger (1919 – 2014)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967 – 2014)
- the SOTU, snowdust and Seeger
- to the lasses
- it’s showtime, folks!
- redneck renaissance
- just sayin’
- Colorado, here they come
- seaux far, seaux good
- hanging in there
- the worst luck possible
- my first Day of Days
- Ford’s theater
- thank you for waiting
- red lines and change in the autumn air
- back to the bayou
- back to breathing normally
- mid-summer report
- when leeches attack
- stand tall, Giants
- Jim (1946 – 2013)
- Garbo (c. May 2012 – June 12, 2013)
- the Romney Mitt never talks about
- Chip
- Richie Havens (January 21, 1941 – April 22, 2013)
- CNN (June 1, 1980 – recently)
- April, go she will
- what price paradise?
- some things that made me go “hmmmm”
- pre-spring fever
- you saw it here first
- Twilight Zone with a Popeye’s Chicken
- what’s in a meme?
- blast from the past
- please excuse me, I just brain farted
- on second thought
- weighing anchor
- oh, the oneness of it all
- the Christmas I was dreaming of wasn’t quite this white
- surviving in a non-apocalyptic world
- white-knuckling it to the solstice
- and now a man who needs an introduction
- PSYCHOTIC DOPE FIENDS! HOPPED UP HARLOTS!
- the perils of Scouting
- what fairies really, really want
- when a Buick is a sign from God
- a massage gone awry
- all God’s chillun got issues, part 2
- all God’s chillun got issues
- in memory of Joe, Sr.
- semper fi, bro
- wait, make that eight
- hail to the new chief, same as the old chief
- saved by Swaggart
- uneasy lies the head that wears the tiara
- mosh pit for millionaires
- Senor Octubre
- helluva fine weekend
- Mitt and me
- the silence . . . the silence
- . . . the more things stay the same
- a gorgeous drought
- turkey calisthentics
- two brothers lyin’ dead in Coffeyville
- a grey pork chop
- Ira Hayes (1923 – 1955)
- why I bought a bond
- the perils of not watching “Goldfinger”
- the kid’s got talent
- pulled back in
- Chicken Little may yet be vindicated
- there it is, Mitt’s A-mer-i-ca
- strictly Bush league
- hey, the lamp’s running away
- rainforest report
- she’s really out of our price range
- Maxine (c. January 2012 – August 31, 2012)
- I’ll give it to ya, right now!
- the night I misplaced my virginity
- gusting winds in Tampa
- seven years of good luck after seven days of bad luck
- Princess (c. January 2012 – August 20, 2012)
- iceberg with a comb over
- mid-summer mid-air report
- somewhere over the chocolate waterfall
- so they won’t break my knees
- maybe it’s their pants
- a not-so-random act of kindness
- slipping the surly bonds of earth (mud, actually)
- Justine and kate
- you down with TCP?
- judgement week: me v. L.A. jury duty
- “teats” is a real word?
- can we afford to eat here?, part 3
- the bitter taste of love
- we get full net service out here
- can we afford to eat here?, part 2
- can we afford to eat here?
- can’t duck this one
- yes, we have several of his works
- Lowell George (1945 – 1979)
- in the trough
- happy 145th, Canada!
- a teeny-weeny bit of socialism?
- another reason we look to the heavens
- Harvey and the Babe
- farewell, Mister Mayor
- welcome to Kansas City
- please stand or sit by
- “The Wire” and “The Help”
- Matthew! My man!
- goin’ north
- finishing up
- Joe and Steve
- the quintessential Midwestern meal
- mortality and waffles
- goin’ south again
- the new kids in the coop
- six birds, no bees, no bear
- a couple of bucks
- the birds and the bees being badgered by the bear
- yo, you in the hoodie!
- wistful days and wistful nights
- goin’ south
- my strange love
- ’cause I love Jesus
- oh, the tub in the field goes ’round and ’round
- little “Shop”, big history
- the guy sure looks like plant food to me
- a flying circus
- Luke Who?
- what a week and weekend
- breaking up? may I suggest Rye, England?
- mass nudity and arson
- kudos to Judy and Betty
- the day I felt closest to Tippi Hedren
- Juveli (c. February 2011 — April 9, 2012)
- the Easter Lobster
- Dalton got his gold
- Trayvon, we hardly knew ye
- scraping bottom
- bejeezus seized
- define “tolerable discomfort”: the exciting conclusion
- define “tolerable discomfort”
- let the merriment begin!
- the big blow
- the perils of poutine
- breezin’
- why I endorse Rick Santorum
- and now I’d like to introduce the rest of the band
- cheer up, sleepy Jean
- not a barrel of fun
- hatches battened
- heading down the home stretch
- there’s no wrong place to look for love
- Al the Mayor (1950 – 2012)
- rural report
- a really good mid-winter sporting extravaganza
- dead of winter
- slogging to the midpoint
- the man behind the curtain
- back to the yellow brick road
- Etta and Otis
- ease on down the road
- follow the yellow brick (campaign) trail
- happy anniversary to us
- getting back to the new normal
- some scary seconds
- let the good times and calorie count roll (up)
- walking (slowly) through a winter wonderland
- a really big living room
- made it!
- some authentic holiday spirit
- they’ll be home for Christmas
- more Irish pennants
- more bare breasts than I could have ever hoped for
- two out of three still ain’t bad
- the slightly off-Broadway productions
- are you sure Huck Finn started this way?
- value-added gibberish
- the gods must not be crazy about football
- I will NEVER work with that turkey again
- chickens, ducks and killer whales
- stocking up on the good karma
- how to honour this particular veteran
- the day I defused my population bomb
- Ma (c. February 2011 – November 2, 2011)
- Happy Halloween/Super Samhain to ya
- some stray thoughts
- the night I wet myself at a Jimmy Buffett concert
- flora, fungi and fowla
- gravy! gravy! gravy! gravy!
- our favorite fungi
- how Freudian of me
- faith in my higher power
- living with S & M
- Houdina/Sweetie (c. February 2011 – September 12, 2011)
- the day after a day of days
- country fair in the summer sun …
- winners of sorts to the contest of sorts
- please welcome Amanda
- the daredevil cat goes down a life
- poultry update and a contest of sorts
- the day I integrated a Woolworth’s lunch counter
- our sixth anniversary — the steak and ice cream one
- I had a great weekend, thank you
- preliminary poultry report
- hope on two wheels
- off he went into the wild blue yonder
- about that tub
- a mighty fine country weekend
- run free, ladies!
- ah, the golden years at last
- a new daddy’s pride
- Happy Independence Day, Yanks!
- are you still watching this space?
- watch this space
- the day I didn’t levitate
- Chuck
- another reason why it’s wise to love thy neighbours
- why it’s wise to love thy neighbours
- the water was wetter than I anticipated
- Sarah, we know ye all too much
- so how does one move a hot tub?
- Beth’s safe and back home!
- let’s keep Beth Reed in mind
- this one’s for you, Eddie
- what a day, this day in May
- closer to home than I thought
- please, positive thoughts and prayers to Joplin
- will you need me there?
- what colour was their hair?
- and how was your weekend?
- please say hello to Blondi and Brainie
- rock on, geologists!
- Irish pennants of the mind
- and the birthers shall becometh deathers
- only six per hammock, please
- we’ve really let them down
- back by the grace of the goop going
- the trail to transition
- please come in, we’ve been expecting you
- the day Tim Leary didn’t meet the Merry Pranksters
- the night Timothy Leary sort of soared through the air
- grief makes me stupid
- rest easy, lunkhead
- Roameo (1997 – 2011).
- the Johnny Appleseed of acid
- I think the people down the hall know who you are
- oh, the wheels on the bike go ’round and ’round
- the bats are back in town
- unfazed and only slightly daunted
- the night ten of my daughters gave birth
- enough is way enough
- #Jon Kyl actually prefers Hydrox to Oreos
- good dog down
- humanure. there, I said it
- the farm to market road
- a well-known pancake eater
- the day I lost a van full of sex addicts in an art museum
- baseball and Farmer John (not the Dodgers’ sponsor)
- the real dirt on Farmer John
- speaking of SPAM (the semi-edible kind)
- let the humbling begin
- the primordial gospel of frogsong
- Nazi-proof drawers and Spam
- the Whizbang Chicken Plucker … and Elvis
- the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence … and Linda
- he hits it high…he hits it deep…he hits it outta here!
- transition comes to town
- is that some bad hat for the giant gnome?
- making your hypervigilance work for you
- trauma will rattle around in you like a restless ghost
- look, it’s the Pillsbury Doughman!
- you’re in San Francisco, not Scandanavia
- Walt Disney, lemmings and atheists
- serendipity you can count on
- splendid party, super moon
- yo, winter! take a bow and blow outta here
- caution! this post may cause nausea
- the motorcycles of the sky
- an unforgettable Christmas in a pagan land
- we won’t mention the syphilis to your mom and dad
- an odd choice for a hood ornament
- on the (round) circles, gentlemen!
- a break in the weather and the leatherneckery
- I’m proud of you maggots
- do I look like a four-legged (date) to you?
- the night I ate a poem in boot camp
- a garden of eden, not THE Garden of Eden
- way too funky to die
- Laissez les bons temps rouler!
- at least we’re better off than the Donner Party
- Yes, I know what it means to miss New Orleans
- Michael Moore may not be as misinformed as I first thought
- get a whiff of that hope in the air
- the night I lived on Bourbon Street
- what did I tell you about that curtain rod?
- it’s Marrrrrrrrrrch, as we pirates like to say
- February: short, brutish and outtahere
- Michael Moore is misinformed, if not flat-out full of feces
- the daredevil klutz goes down a pint
- but seriously, folks
- bachelor’s banquet
- all this and bacon, too
- the birds and the bees and the beaver
- a break in the cabin fever
- change is a short time a’comin’
- back when a landline was really a landline
- is it Cialis related? let’s not be too hasty
- the love that should dare speak its name
- the love that can dare speak its name
- Valentine, you don’t have to cross your heart if you’d rather have lift and separation
- one month in
- this roadhouse is a little seedy, but the people seem nice
- eyes east!
- snowdrops keep bloomin’ from the ground
- grinding my mental gears
- the absence of tires is one of its safety features
- o brother Joe (Lieberman), WTF with the FSA?
- maybe the Gipper doesn’t care who wins anymore
- purple prose, no purple haze
- won’t you let me take you on a (ten minute) sea cruise?
- the flake with the flickering porch light
- bouncing back from my fall
- the beard broke my fall
- so just how alternative is your energy system?
- geologists, the rock stars of science
- let’s toast marshmallows over the baseboard heater
- Mowat and Maese
- just can’t put off that beaver any longer
- you can’t discuss bees without talking birds
- so that buzzing isn’t just in my head?
- a handful of mid-winter Sundays
- the star of the show, act III
- the star of the show, act II
- the star of the show, act I
- that obnoxious uncle
- multiply by your mother’s maiden name
- shine on, you crazy burnpiles
- the storm ate my homework
- a drumroll for my blogroll, please
- … and your immediate family is?
- … and you are?
- Hello world!
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