Six O’Clock Vintage

Seek those images that constitute the wild, the lion and the virgin, the harlot and the child. Find in middle air an eagle on the wing, recognize the five that make the Muses sing. | W.B Yeats, Those Images

Carve This

I have a pale roundish orb sitting on my kitchen table. It’s been slashed into submission by the relentless jabs and gouges of a sharp knife. It has aspirations towards orangeness, but to be perfectly honest it’s more of a pale brown than orange.My wife has a fond spot in ...

The Bakery

Yesterday was a day of smells. The first sensory impression I had in the day, besides the blast of cold air that greeted me as I stepped off the bus, was the warm, sugary smell of pastries. The scent followed me from the outside plaza into the foyer, and then ...

An Interrogation

Love is a constant interrogation.My eyes tripped over this line, they got up and attempted to run over it again; then stopped with the period and dashed back to the beginning to try one more time. Visions of bright lights and chain-smoking inspectors rattling off angry questions, pictures of suavely ...

Alley

My shoes are off, lying disjointedly on the carpet. They've been through a bit today. One of my favorite lunch time activities, when it's sunny, is urban exploration. I devour my sandwich, head outside, and then determine a direction for my journey. Finally I walk, careful to ...

Limbering Up

I feel like some sort of frontier man, preparing for a momentous journey. I need to accustom my fingers and mind to the rigorously demanding task of producing orderly stacks of letters. With that in mind I have a goal of progressively increasing blog post volume over the ...

50_000

November is National Novel Writing Month. I missed this epic event last year; not this year! I plan on wearing out my keyboard with mountains of knee-jerk prose. My novel won't be posted on this site--it has its own dedicated site, which will be linked to from ...

Age

Something came to me yesterday as I ambled down the dark hallway (3 levels below the surface of the earth). Have you ever entered your memories, gone back through the hard drive of your mind to examine what was successfully archived? This was what I was doing. Some people refer ...

Cocoa

My wife Brittany and I received our monthly dose of culture at the Columbus Symphony on Saturday night and then ambled down to the water front to stare at the Fire on the Water thing. I'm not exactly sure what the event is called, but it's intriguing--you'd probably like it, ...

The Bard

Leptodactylous I am,No doubt it's true.Sitting here,Strumming softly:Listen and imbueNotes glimmering cheerEchoing gently.Intricately renewEscaping cold meer,Riding the wind, romantically.del.icio.us : Poetry

Idylls

I've been very productive as of late. The bus ride to and from work gives me time to imbue and digest large amounts of text. I start with the Bible, contemplating verses while gnawing on an apple and sipping cautiously from my thermos of hot dark coffee. After my QT ...

August 13th 2008
Tags: Asides

“You’re a Phony, a Big Fat Phony! Hey Everybody, He’s a Phony!”

I know that China is the home of iPhone rip-offs and lead-filled Colgate, but it appears that their duplicity and fakery  don't end with electronics and domestic household products. China admitted faking the opening fireworks of the Olympic Opening Ceremony as well as faking the voice of the cute little singer ...
August 6th 2008
Tags: Asides

Mountain Lion Drags Dog out of Owner’s Bedroom

Crazy story, this is a small front range town just southwest of the Denver area.  I go mountain biking in this area all the time. A mountain lion slunk into the master bedroom of an Idledale home early Monday, snatched a yellow Labrador retriever and vanished. Officers are hunting the mountain lion ...
July 14th 2008
Tags: Tech

iPhone Apps

I spent the weekend at a cabin in the mountains and so didn't get a chance to download the the latest iPhone software update until late Sunday evening.  After a frustrating flurrey of "restore, verify, restore" proceedings I finally was forced to delete by back up and do a full ...
July 3rd 2008
Tags: Asides

The Fattest States in America

Another reason to move to Colorado, the home of lean, well-muscled and tan super people :)
June 30th 2008
Tags: Adventure, Stories

Flat Tires

I keep getting flat tires during my rides. In less than a month I've gotten two flats in remote sections of each ride's respective trail.  The first flat was on Three Sisters trail in Evergreen.  I somehow managed to rip a huge gash in my tube and found myself pedaling on ...