a blog about ratiocinations out of thin air and elsewhere
GATHERED HERE are stories and articles that may be so, and may not. Some my be fact-based but embellished, others are just jokes that I rewrote to make them sound genuinely anecdotal.
Originally, I was just going to regurgitate old jokes that I liked, but there are now so many sources for so many jokes on the internet that we don’t need one from me! So you get these tall-tales-with-a-punchline instead.
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FARTING AROUND with agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully is something that millions of us would enjoy. That said, I want to call attention to words exchanged in a conversation between with those and former agent Dales in The X-Files episode titled “Agua Mala.” Arthur Dales was the original person in charge of the FBI’s X-Files and is now retired and living in Florida. READ MORE
BEFORE I MET BERNI—the light of my life, the fickle of my fancy—I dated a lot of women. Tried dating through the Personals section at the back of the local weeklies here in Seattle (The Stranger and Seattle Weekly). Needless to say, I had a lot of interesting experiences, none of which lasted long. READ MORE
BEFORE I MET BERNI—who is the light of me life, the fickle of me fancy, my reason for laughing for crying for living for dying (she’s my soul and my heart’s inspiration!)—I dated a lot of women. I mean, a LOT. Once, about seventeen years ago, I almost—ALMOST!!!—had a genuine psychic girlfriend! READ MORE
OLD HABITS DIE HARD. Who has not heard that hoary saw? Whether it’s always so, I don’t know, but I do know that certain habits that I formed while sharing a bed with my brother Charles when we were kids became SO much a part of me, that I simply ceased to notice their presence in my nightly rituals. READ MORE