June 12, 2007

Last time we saw our hero Rev. Clockslip, he was taking advantage of the hospitality of yours truly while embroiled in a messy doctrinal dispute with his incredibly orthodox wife. The situation has now changed dramatically, whether for better or worse I’ll let you decide. On Sunday the good Reverend once again took his place [...]

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, [...]

Woman April 11, 2007

So you may be wondering (You? Who is “you?” I like to imagine you being an intensely interested and intensely beautiful woman, very like Lorelai, but more interested. Of course I was just about to tell “you” about Lorelai, wasn’t I?) what happened with Lorelai, that is, the woman I met at the café. Well, [...]

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 [...]