August 2024
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The Out Loud (songs)
After re-visiting my Cujo the cat tune I thought I’d go back to a few other things. Some recent Never Trump & GOP things. ////////////////////////////////////////// We Want You To Be We (to Cheap Trick “I Want You To Want Me”) We Want You … To Be … We . We want you to be we… Continue reading
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To Pee Or Not To … I Didn’t Pee (Cujo the Cat song) – A Revisit
The other day as I was checking out my Blog stats at WordPress, the platform I use for the Attic and one of the cool things about WordPress, the ability to see your sites “traffic”, I noticed that an older parody tune of mine had recently gotten a couple of unexpected downloads/listens. Now I am… Continue reading
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So Then Sunday: Oompa Loompa Bob Song: An Oompa Loompa Cautionary Tale/Eulogy
Thought to just a little fun for a “So Then Sunday” today. From back in the Spring, my version of the Oompa Loompa song for an unfortunate guy named Bob. I know, you’re saying “Damn Frankenberry! This is just what I didn’t know I needed today!” You’re welcome. //////////////////////////////////////// April 2, 2024 So a friend,… Continue reading
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The Troll Under The Stairs
Beck: Dammit!! Me: What? I had made my way upstairs into Beck’s kitchen which then leads into the dining room where she was sitting at the dining room table with her dinner. Beck: You’re supposed to make a sound, any sound! Me: What? The steps creak a bit, and that handrail just lost a screw… Continue reading
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Exit 21B
There is this spot, what was surely a vibrant truck stop once, that I pass in my to an fro’s in my new commute along the NY State Thruway. It sits vacant, boarded, graffitied, among all the other alive spots I pass where you can grab some gas, a bit of shut-eye or maybe a… Continue reading
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The Scrapbook And The Man In The Black Fedora (flash fiction)
So another prompt at dVerse Poets … It’s Monday and, at the dVerse Poets Pub, we are writing Prosery, the very short piece of prose or flash fiction that tells a story with a beginning, middle and end. It can be in any genre of your choice, but it does have a limit of 144… Continue reading
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Her Name Is Kelsay (apparently)
I know, all these years of me being single and not caring of such, and then Kelsay came along. I realize she seems a bit out of my league, well actually in another league entirely, like a completely different sport, but if you are going to dive back in let it be the deep end… Continue reading
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Gonna Wanna Rule Somebody – Revisit (song)
So back in March I did a version of Dylan’s “Gotta Serve Somebody” and thought I would re-post it here now. That’s it. Gonna Wanna Rule Somebody You may be a wished dictator who’s scripting a dream Of what to do in year 25 with a right’s loyalist team Who’r mapping out a dire plan where… Continue reading
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A Repost From Last Year On International Cat Day (Crazy Cat Lady Guy Cat Tips Guide – Tip #351: When It’s International Cat Day You Post Accordingly)
Though the surrounds have changed it’s still a Bella and a Cricket and a Me. ////////////////////////////////////////// Cricket the Blind: Hey Bella? Where you at? Bella: I’m over here on my chair, to your left. Cricket: Ok cool … ummm, where is my “left?” Bella: (sigh) the direction you always do your weird little Cricket circles… Continue reading
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The Miscellaneous Jar – (poem)
So De Jackson, aka WhimsyGizmo, brought the latest “Quadrille” idea to us at dVerse Poets, that dVerse invention 44 word poem that asks just that you include a particular word. This time around from De? That word was “Jar”. . The Miscellaneous Jar I tapped the lid with a butter knife in evenly spaced indents… Continue reading
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