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  • Odd and Strange Christmas Specials

    Christmas is my favorite holiday, Santa, giving gifts, decorations, and the all-encompassing, all-pervasive, fully comprehensive  music.  But like most things there are some weird things that happen around the edges of any season.  Sometimes the weird gets mainstream.  Halloween used… Read More ›

  • Duck

    If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck’s back.    Ellen Swallow Richards   Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (Swallow; December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was an American industrial and safety engineer, environmental… Read More ›

  • Possiblity

    If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.    Douglas Adams Douglas Noel Adams (11 March… Read More ›

  • Block

    Writer’s block! It doesn’t exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.   Colm Toibin   Colm Tóibín FRSL (born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright… Read More ›