Sometime after noon today, I realized I’d run out of dry cat food. Lyndon had been pointing this out in increasingly shrill Siamese tones, but I’d ignored him, murmuring, “I know, Buddy,” and thinking, I must have an extra bag of salty crunchy stashed somewhere. When I went to the trouble to look, I realized, […]
Today was a wonderful day because my beloved Time Market has reopened, and I picked up a framed print from Bob and Wade at Deadwood Framing. I’ve missed the Time Market terribly. A few times a week, I would order a salad and a slice of pizza, and sit in the picture window people-watching, and […]
So, here’s a pet peeve of mine. When reporters from major media outlets — think, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and just about every cable news show — deign to report from Arizona, they rarely venture beyond the Phoenix metropolitan area. This article on whether the Latino vote will finally flip Arizona blue […]
The scenes in which Tereus gets my innocent, teetotaling hero drunk and cooks him a steak are loosely based on the raffish habits of my mathematician friend, Sol. Once, when I had a bad cold, Sol cooked the best chicken soup I’ve ever tasted, and left it warm on my porch. On another occasion, he […]
The summer muddles along, alternating between enervating heat and violent storms. It’s understood that Inglorion will spend much of his time with Tereus, observing and helping with the house and crops. If Inglorion’s absent for more than a day or two, Tereus tries to lure him over with food or drink. This makes sense to […]
First things first: I’m pausing a day or two before publishing the next episodes of Inglorion in the Elysian Fields. I had and insight about grief this morning, and want to spend a bit of time sautéing and simmering it down into the savory helping of Hot Elf that you’ve come to expect. Like bolognese […]
Tereus hates to think of the water slipping away, so they work side-by-side to repair the basins, dredging out silt, digging them deeper, lining them with flat stones. It’s taxing and absorbing work. After an hour, the sun emerges. The heat rises quickly, and clouds billow over the mountains. As they dig and shape a […]
Inglorion comes out of trance a bit after dawn. He feels a bit tired and stupid, but otherwise none the worse for wear. He’d expected to have a raging migraine, or to have turned into some kind of wretched 19th century allegory for debauchery and hubris — half-man, half-jackal, perhaps. He sits up and blinks […]
This was the best weekend ever. It was also the worst. On Saturday, I talked to my sister again, and ended the conversation feeling agitated and unhappy. I asked her why parents are so worried about keeping kids home — I know what I read in the papers, but obviously I can’t relate. She said […]
I was chatting with my friend Kelly last night, and we both confessed that we’re entirely baffled by some people’s behavior surrounding the pandemic. Kelly is one of the toughest people I know. Anytime I fancy myself a bit of a badass, with my live warheads and sightings of test pilots, I remind myself that […]
