Letter to the Editor: Thanks for what you do sir. It's helped me tremendously. Especially during last year's craziness. Please continue telling everyone that it's either Christ or Chaos. ...
The Chair Recognizes the Gentleman from Whosit
The Second Crime Scene
Introduction: In order to understand what I am going to be urging here, you will need to read the previous entry, the press release about the prosecution of my son and two grandsons. If you have read that, you will have been apprised of the basic facts of the matter, and what I am going …
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Please Stay Tuned
If you came here first thing this fine Monday morning for the kind of prose that scintillates like a ballet dancer using her very finest pointe technique, the chances are good that you typed in the wrong url address, or were the victim of some kind of auto-correct mishap. But if you came here for …
Pleading With Anguish
“That great prince implored me, pleaded with anguish,
To seek the sea’s bottom and summon up vengeance,
To brave the beast’s power, take battle down to her.”
So What’s Your Point?
Homeward Bound
“Then their keel carved water, they caught the wind,
And drove the deep water with Denmark behind them.
They hoisted high the wind-coat and held it with ropes,
Tight to the tall mast; their timbers creaked . . .
Foam-throated she flew, fleet like an arrow”
It Really is Okay to be White
Introduction: One begins to suspect that the folks down at Woka-Wola have been snorting coke again, doesn't one? Of course, if they have been, then there is really nothing unusual, right? ...
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The Ship on the Strand
“The ship on the strand was seaworthy and wide,
Laden with riches, ring-prowed, riding at anchor”
In Which a Bowl of Potpourri Gets Knocked All Over the Carpet
Note: the topics addressed in the letters are really all over the place, and so I have done minimal work in trying to group them. I pretty much just have a title for every letter. If this is a problem ...
The Return
“These warriors came wending their way to the coast,
Brave-hearted and bold, bearing their armor . . .”