Monthly Archives: May 2012

Baby Frogs

May 31, 2012

At school the lawn banks toward a shady northern wall by a sprinkler oozing puddles where every spring male frogs mount female backs and fertilize eggs as they’re laid in water. We never notice the tadpoles that first emerge but are delighted by the sudden appearance of hundreds of baby frogs. Initially they’re [...]

Posted in Education, Frogs, George Thomas Clark, Reptiles

Vincent van Gogh Talks to Mental Patient

May 30, 2012

(This conversation occurred last night in a local mental health facility.)
Mental Patient – You don’t know the trouble I’ve had.
Vincent van Gogh – I had quite a few problems, too.
MP – Not like mine. Your paintings generate hundreds of millions of dollars a year. And all the reproductions, merchandising, books, movies…you must’ve known [...]

Posted in Art, Bullying, Mental Health, Painters, Suicide, Vincent Van Gogh

Assad Justifies Bombardment

May 29, 2012

To read an excerpt from “Obama on Edge,” please click here.

Posted in Bashar al-Assad, Hafez al-Assad, Middle East, Syria

Was Vincent van Gogh Murdered – Part 2

May 28, 2012

Two clever biographers appeared on Sixty Minutes and said Vincent van Gogh didn’t really shoot himself in a wheat field more than a bumpy mile from town since he couldn’t have walked so far bearing a wound destined to finish him in thirty hours.
Instead, the sleuthing biographers state two teenagers in Auvers, a spot for [...]

Posted in Alcohol, Art, Bullying, Campaign 2012, Mental Health, Mitt Romney, Painters, Suicide, Vincent Van Gogh

Obama v. Romney in Number$

May 28, 2012

Please click here to read an excerpt from “Obama on Edge.”

Posted in Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Economics, Mitt Romney, Poetry - GTC, Republicans

Doctor Fears Naps

May 26, 2012

Click here to read an excerpt from “Snapshots of Distressing Events”

Posted in Doctors, Health, Heart, Short Pieces - GTC, Sleep

Jacob Zuma Demands Dignity

May 24, 2012

Click here to read an excerpt from “Snapshots of Distressing Events”

Posted in AIDS, Africa, Art, Jacob Zuma, Painters, Rape, Sex, Short Pieces - GTC, South Africa

General Aladeen Assails Sacha Baron Cohen and “The Dictator”

May 23, 2012

Obscene, self-righteous, and unfunny Sacha Baron Cohen has earned a few hundred million dollars, in movies “Borat” and “Bruno,” by insulting rubes in Kazakhstan and the United States, and then either deflecting or burying their lawsuits. Now you can be assured that I, General Aladeen, supreme leader of Wadiya, will by all necessary means [...]

Posted in Borat, Middle East, Movies, Oil, Sacha Baron Cohen, Terrorism

Wall Street Enforcement

May 22, 2012

big money men
rage against crime
so should appreciate
stylish new gallows
every fifty paces
on wall street

Posted in Capital Punishment, Crime, Economics, Employment, Poetry - GTC, Poverty, Wall Street

The Pool Player

May 21, 2012

Click here to read an excerpt from “Snapshots of Distressing Events”

Posted in Alcohol, Families, Food, Health, Pool, Short Pieces - GTC

Church Service

May 20, 2012

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Posted in Dating, Education, Immigration, Marriage, Poetry - GTC, Religion, Short Pieces - GTC

Advice from Mexican Tour Guide

May 19, 2012

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Posted in Crime, Drugs, Mexico, Mexico City, Murder, Short Pieces - GTC

Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

May 17, 2012

It’s May thirtieth, 1921 and nineteen-year-old shoeshiner enters large downtown Tulsa building, anxious to use “colored” restroom on top floor. He hurries into elevator, trips, and to avoid falling grasps arm of teenage white girl who screams and kid flees. Following day he’s arrested and jailed atop courthouse. Hundreds of white citizens, [...]

Posted in Art, Oklahoma, Painters, Racism, Riots, Tulsa

Tobacco: The Holdouts

May 17, 2012

I’m no prude but have years of clean living and resent unhealthy intrusions such as smoke choking me in museum gallery.
“Put out cigarettes,” I demand of unseen culprits. “Where are you?”
Dashing around gallery, I cough and curse and am about to flee when realize I’m next to evildoers and see mummified doctor’s [...]

Posted in Art, Drugs, Los Angeles, Painters, Robert Colescott, Tobacco

Photos in the Inbox

May 15, 2012

Click here to read an excerpt from “Snapshots of Distressing Events”

Posted in Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Berlin, Berlin Wall, Bruce Lee, Charlie Chaplin, Che Guevara, Elvis Presley, Fidel Castro, Germany, Google, John F. Kennedy, John Lennon, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, McDonald's, Music, Osama bin Laden, Photography, Physics, Politics, Saddam Hussein, Short Pieces - GTC, Terrorism, The Beatles, Titanic

Good News for Jesus at the Bakersfield Islamic Conference

May 14, 2012

At the sixth annual Bakersfield Islamic Conference, before a few hundred attendees in a hotel ballroom, crew-cut Joshua Evans, looking scholarly behind a long brown beard and matching brown glasses, delivered this information: you cannot be a Muslim unless you believe in Jesus, one of five great Prophets who brought about seminal changes. Islam [...]

Posted in Bakersfield, Islam, Jesus Christ, Mohammad, Religion

The Big Sneeze

May 10, 2012

Click here to read an excerpt from “Snapshots of Distressing Events”

Posted in Education, Google, Health, Internet, Mental Health, Short Pieces - GTC, Sneezing, Suicide

New Electric Razor

May 9, 2012

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Posted in Divorce, Families, Marriage, Short Pieces - GTC

Prime Rib Feast

May 7, 2012

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Posted in Adolescents, Babe Ruth, Baseball, Food, George Thomas Clark, New York Yankees, Roger Maris, Sacramento, Short Pieces - GTC

Border Patrol

May 5, 2012

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Posted in Immigration, Mexico, Sex, Short Pieces - GTC

Mexican Journalists Murdered

May 4, 2012

routine news
three mexican
journalists found
maimed in plastic
bags week after
female reporter
strangled at home
To read “Drug Rehabilitation in Ciudad Juarez,” please click here
To read “Mexican Society Under Attack,” please click here

Posted in Crime, Drugs, Mexico, Poetry - GTC

Edvard Munch on Record Sale of “The Scream”

May 3, 2012

For record hundred twenty million they just sold “The Scream” one of four and last in public hands and I’ll burn all of them including money and hands if they ever make me look inside myself again.

To see The Scream, please click this link
To read “Edvard Munch Stretched on Canvas,” please click here [...]

Posted in Art, Depression, Edvard Munch, Mental Health, Painters, Short Pieces - GTC

Obama in Afghanistan

May 3, 2012

Please click here to read an excerpt from “Obama on Edge.”

Posted in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Middle East, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Terrorism

The Hussy

May 2, 2012

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Posted in Cars & Driving, Doctors, Health, Marriage, Sex, Short Pieces - GTC