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October 22, 2014
Opossum Hate
Since I published my post last week opossum v dog I have been inundated with hate mail, angry phone calls and one passive-aggressive singing telegram made by a man wearing an opossum suit who ended the routine by fake spitting cheesy string at me with a flamboyant hiss. Apparently there are a shit-ton of opossum lovers out there and they are…
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October 15, 2014
Opossum V Dog
The Puppy is the dog I rescued from a broken down Peugeot in the mountains of Southern Spain. She is weird and awkward and anti-social and that makes me love her even more because she’s just like me. I Look Like My Dog They say a dog and its human often morph into the same being, separated into two bodies…
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October 1, 2014
Treasure Island Drum Circle
Sunday is one of my seven fundays. Fun for me means a strictly regimented routine so that I always know what I’m supposed to be doing. On Sunday mornings (when I’m not working) we play tennis, Sunday afternoons are spent with football or movies and lots and lots of cooking, and Sunday evenings are for the Treasure Island Drum Circle.…
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September 25, 2014
Hot Nurse Is My Safeword
Orientation With Many Hot Nurses I’m starting a new job this month. It’s another part-time job, because every job in Florida is a part-time job. The average Floridian is far too busy doing one of four things: (1) Smoking crack, (2) fending off the roving bands of crackheads, (3) drinking margaritas while listening to Jimmy Buffett, or (4) fending off…
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September 17, 2014
Empty Not Hollow AC Adams
My friend and editor and sister of the heart, Amy (or A.C. Adams if you’re nasty) has just released her first work of art. Empty, Not Hollow is a collection of short stories that will take your breath away and then bring it back 12 minutes later. Then you’ll notice that it looks like your breath and tastes like you’re breath……
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September 11, 2014
An Amazing Weekend
I had an amazing weekend. It started on Friday with insane sales of Lost In Spain. I looked at the KDP (Kindle) sales graph at noon and it was selling better than hot cakes at a country fair where all the other cakes are cold and made out of mud and cat hair. By Friday night I had sold a…
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September 3, 2014
The Internet Hurts My Brain
The internet rarely gives me an actual headache so I guess I mean that the internet hurts my mind. I wake up in the morning and the first thing I do is open Facebook. I feel like that’s the logical choice because it’s the primary way that I communicate with most of the people in my life. Problem is, after…
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August 7, 2014
Ebola Flesh Eating Bacteria Broken Everything
Or Sunday Funday It’s Sunday (at the time I’m writing this) and I don’t know what to do with myself. I like to play tennis on Saturday and Sunday morning. Three weeks ago, during a match I was running around all willy nilly like Captain Carefree when, in a sudden change of direction move, I rolled my ankle. You know…
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July 30, 2014
After the Final Rose
15:00 Minutes After the final rose was given the runner-up left the stage. Staggering in shock, the man weaved between camera men, paparazzi and two fourteen year old girls who came because they couldn’t get tickets to One Direction, to get away. The brilliant white stage lights beat down upon him like a judgment, making his fake tan look orange.…
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July 24, 2014
Puppy Is Afraid Of The Dark
Doggy Nightmares My Spanish dog, The Puppy, is afraid of everything as I’ve explained in the last blog. Well, a new fear has sprung up like an oily and poisonous mushroom in the dark and fertile ground of her mind. Puppy is now afraid of the dark. To be precise, It’s not so much the dark as the sudden, explosive cancelling…
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