What’s Playing At The Roxy?

When most folks learn that I once lived above a McDonald’s the reaction is almost always one of these: “Really?  How could you stand the smell?” and “How awful, did you hate it?”  The truth is, I didn’t hate it.  I didn’t love it.  It’s sort of one of those feelings of pure indifference.  Oh [...]

I’m Sorry, But Are You Just As Totally Confused As I Am?

Pluto may not be a planet. So I learned that the stupid mnemonic device in grammar school : My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles no longer is valid.
Mercury Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune…but no Pluto?! Has the world gone topsy-turvy?
How awful is it that now that this has been determined–years [...]

Mental Health Days and No Phone Calls, Please!

Once again I am at that weird mental place where there are circuses and carnivals and parades and everyone’s enjoying the festivities…but me.  Oh sure, there’s some cotton-candy memory and a vividly terrifying roller coaster somewhere in the recesses of my imagination, but I would much rather say, “Stop the world…I wanna get off!”
What the [...]

Just Dropping In:

Imagine my surprise when I opened my front door yesterday evening to find, Fifi standing there.  Like a boomerang, Fifi (at least we call her that) is back up north from Florida and decided to drop by.  I was completely unprepared since a) I thought she hated me and b) I haven’t spoken to her [...]

Magical Potions For All That Ails You

We’ve come a long way from the homeopathic remedies our Hispanic grandmas used to fix from weeds and herbs and spices.  Thanks to a government that’s eager to push pills, and medical breakthroughs, we’ve pretty much invented a “pill for everything”.  Is it any better, though?  I mean, sure we have marvelous ways of alleviating [...]

What Policemen Don’t Want Little Girls To Know:

 
Daughters,
There’s crime.  It exists in every form, every day, at any time.  It gnaws at the weak and makes zombies real.  It brings good people to lie, to cheat, and to steal.  That’s why it is always inside of me.  I have eyes that have witnessed the dregs of society.  I have learned to cope [...]

I Hate It When This Happens…

I wake up from an unusually odd dream only to find that my waking life is a nightmare.  Does this happen to you?  Well, this morning, my day began with a frantic phone call from Carlos telling me that he was stranded on the back highway because he inadvertently ran out of gas.  While he’s [...]

The Wonderful World of Catch Phrases

Don’t ask me why, but I was thinking about the ever-growing list of catch-phrases.  We all know them: they’re in every commercial, every television show, every movie.  It is a way to bond or the means used to make us laugh.  Offhand I thought of some I’d mention here: Long Dead (R.I.P) :

“Don’t have a cow, [...]