Impossible Kisses

Caravaggio, legend plays, killed a man at a tennis game. Renaissance balls weren’t the same as ours but maybe in those days the whole civili...

On the other side of the world the tennis season has started. I know the players are “athletes.” They’re professional sports people. So they...

This is a drawing of Beethoven I made a long time ago. It’s 2009 now so in the tradition of the modern world this picture has been photosho...

New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day are coming up but right this second I don’t have anything special planned for the blog. I feel I should ha...

If she were a telescope— and she is a telescope but I’m pretending she’s not— if she were a telescope far away things would look close when ...

The red witch said, “The grail stories are vagina metaphors. Please. The grail’s round. It receives liquid. The idea is that avid worthy k...

I reached into the witch’s hood and removed a glass that I stood on a table. A second witch poured white wine. Each witch had a niche. “I ...

All the little drops of water wash against her when she showers. All the little drops of rain wash against the city in a storm. But even aft...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Why this cartoon appears on a Tuesday: Lost (For Brittany Murphy...

Brittany Murphy November 10, 1977 – December 20, 2009 Rest In Peace Brittany Murphy appeared in this blog a few times. She had what I think...

I did this to try out the inexpensive water-soluble wax crayons I talked about Monday . I like this, but I don’t think I’ll be working with ...

I’ve watched some bad movies lately. Not good-bad. Just plain bad. I watched a bad science fiction movie about earthquakes destroying much...

Walking the circle is a phrase from the world of Spanish fencing, that is, the historical world. There are people alive today who know exac...

Nine billion years ago, i.e., around 1975-ish, there was an obscure British pop group named Charlie . They had some really good musicians pl...

Cartoon-wise this weekend was a fail. Sadly, it wasn’t even an epic fail, just a plain old run-of-the-mill fail. But I do have a little st...

When the movie “Scream 2” opened many horror film fans got mad that the writer and director made Sidney a college student rather than the h...

What were the white and blue spiral lights over Norway? I strongly suspect the light show was exactly that, a laser show of some kind projec...

“There’s a rip in your stocking,” I said. She said, “Yes, the gods will strike me dead if I’m perfect. The gods get jealous.” “I thought,” ...

The dog wanted to run away so badly he would have stolen a row boat and rowed night and day but the dog-in-a-boat escape reminded him of a s...