Humor or humour, should be almost every post.
Ask a silly question – get a silly answer. Attila the Hun Perhaps my expectations were all messed up. Perhaps my questions weren’t silly enough. If I ask a silly question, is it really too much to ask to get a silly answer? Did you ever steal my toes in a dream? Which toe is […]
I’d do anything for a tidy house. I have my cat but she just gets on with her own business, and she can’t talk to me. I spend a lot of time with my Genie. I could keep him in his lamp all the time but I’m a bit lonely. So I rub him […]
Playing the bagpipes is everyone’s dream right? Then why not become a piper at a golf course? There are at least 17,448 golf courses in america At 5pm there is at least one that hires a Scottish piper to stand outside the bar and play the bagpipes. From my personal knowledge that means there are at least […]
Sausages in Fiction hopes I emailed ten sausage factories one day. I needed to make sure my sense out of non-sense post was completely realistic. I was interested in finding out ideas that would improve production for a fictional sausage situation. A fictional sausage situation is often the best one to find yourself in. Only […]
Youthful Humiliation For many years my mother and I were estranged. I prickled when she was brought up in conversations. We just didn’t get on. I wanted to move away from it all. To forget. Every time I tried to tell her something that I felt was wrong or I knew or made […]
“There’s only one thing that’s worse than having an unhappy childhood, and that’s having a too-happy childhood.” Dylan Thomas At one point I made a list of everything I could remember. Where you live, what you’re wearing. The best places to hide. Oh hold on, that post is for my stalking blog. Bad Memory […]
I shout at my phone, It’s consistently “No !!” It eats chunks of text, I know not where they go, I prefer writing on paper, the process is slow, But it’s not like I’m in any great hurry. My phone uses algorithms to edit my text, It supposedly knows what I want to write next, […]
It takes a special kind of someone to produce something simple that is also special. Huh? Don’t blame me blame Billy Joe Shaver. I remember a phrase in Zen Buddhism a phrase “putting legs on a snake.” Where smart people start using their brains and make the simplest of things harder and harder. Billy Joe […]
Does that count as my question? OK. Can I ask you two questions? Does that count as one of my questions? OK. Can I ask you three questions? Does that count as one of my questions? I’ve still got one question left. Is that right? OK. Can I ask you four questions? Is it […]
In a word, misophonia. (Fear of sound) A fascinating and somewhat disturbing manifestation that boasts no diagnostic criteria and isn’t thought of as a psychiatric condition. The term Misphonia originated in a publication by audiologists Powel & Margaret Jastreboff in 2000 and is described as a neurological disorder whereby certain trigger sounds can provoke extreme […]
