Adjective Proliferation July 3, 2007

Ladies and gentlemen, it is my duty to inform you of a grave danger threatening our national security: Adjective Proliferation. AP affects every level of our society. Even as we speak language terrorists under the guise of marketing personnel in major corporations are proliferating adjectives at a rate guaranteed to destroy the English language as [...]

Mrs. Clockslip June 3, 2007

For more than a week now, Reverend Clockslip and I have been on-again off-again bedfellows due to the ever unfolding drama of his estrangement with Mrs. Clockslip. Petunia Clockslip is a woman of strict doctrinal rigor, her orthodoxy defended with the ardor of a blushing maid. My friend the Reverend, who I shall call Henry, [...]

Sunday Morning March 26, 2007

I wrote last about a woman, but in this entry I must digress from that pleasant subject and relate one of my weekly rituals. I went to church. Do not stare so. Yes, I went to church, as I do nearly every week, though I am afraid you may consider my motives less than pious. [...]

A Discovery March 20, 2007

With the absurd exclamation, “to the world!” I left my desk two days ago in search of who-knows-what in who-knows-where for who-knew-how long.  I now know how long, and am reasonably sure of the location of my discovery but am utterly at a loss as to the answer to my first hyphenated pseudo-question.  As to [...]

Writer’s Block March 12, 2007

My muse has left me, or is at least having an affair with the milkman.