HDWGH – Story 37 – You Can’t Swim There
-*From The How Did We Get Here Series*- **Now**: Harrison Guthrie was just happy to be alive. Sure, he was soaking wet, standing in the mall fountain, and soon to be surrounded by mall cops. It could have gone much worse. **Before**: Silvia Guthrie loved...
Garfield
This is me in a few weeks…
Blog Update – Good Times
There has most definitely been blog inconsistency over the last couple of weeks and I wish I could explain it. I think I’ve just been exhausted. I remember a couple of nights where I would get home from work and quickly end up in my...
HDWGH – Story 36 – A Little Extra
–From The How Did We Get Here Series– Now: Dexter Lewis slid the Hershey Bar, lighter, and cigarettes from the plastic bag as Harris began driving away from the convenience store. Harris looked over and asked, “Where’d you get the cigarettes, bro?” Before: Dexter stood...
WWDC 2021 is Almost Here!
This is the yearly event I look forward to. The event where Apple releases the beta version of the next operating system. The conference is all about software and in rare circumstances Apple has announced hardware but since this is a software conference, I wouldn’t...
HDWGH – Story 35 – Plugged
–From The How Did We Get Here Series– Now: The secret of why office manager Elizabeth Beckett was always smiling and happy was finally out of the bag. Elizabeth was bending over to get some files out of the lower filing cabinet drawer when her...
It’s June!
You know what that means? No more crappy weather allowed. From here until, like, October… I am the king of nothing in particular and I have spoken.
Tundra
I usually don’t post this one. This particular one caught my attention and just struck me as hilarious.
XKCD Comic and Dilbert
Love these.
HDWGH – Story 34 – Dingleberry Johnson
–From The How Did We Get Here Series– Now: It was at the bottom of the 5th inning when Cletus Johnson looked up at the big display in the ballpark. In bright blue letters it read, “For a good time, call Cletus “Dingleberry” Johnson. He...
Writing Through Pain
A great article and couldn’t be timelier for me. Grief is the ultimate thief of creativity. As artists, we have a duty to observe and experience those poignant moments so we can better portray them in our art. But experiencing them isn’t always conducive to...
Weird Series of Events
I would start this sentence with “so” except that every time you do, I think a small child dies somewhere. I was on the fence about going to my brother’s funeral. Why? There are any number of reasons but the main reason is that there...
HDWGH – Story 33 – Fowl Clairvoyance
–From The How Did We Get Here Series– Now: Chad Hess stood on the pier with a look of disgust and heart break as Nicole Harris told him that she would not marry him and that his present condition was obviously a “sign.” Before: Chad...
Services Update
It looks like I am going to attend the services for my baby brother because in this instance, it would seem completely wrong for me not to attend. My brother and I weren’t really close in the latter part of his life but we were...
Jony Ive’s Commencement Address
This is absolutely fabulous from someone who doesn’t really feel comfortable giving speeches.
Funerals
I’ll tell you why I think funerals are archaic and stupid. It is because they are not about the person who actually died. They are about a bunch of people who knew the dead person and who come together to make themselves feel better about...
R.I.P. – Aaron Allen Patrick Troutman
The name may not mean anything to my readers but that is the name of my little brother. He died last evening in a car accident. I am still trying to process that fact that he is gone.
HDWGH – Story 32 – Easter Surprise
–From The How Did We Get Here Series– Now: Jessica Simmons looked up from the holy water in Saint Michael’s Church’s vestibule to find three priests staring at her with crossed arms and shocked looks on their faces. Brown chunks of biological matter floated around...
Obituary Madness
I find it immensely entertaining to read the obituary pages of my local newspaper. Why? Well, because of all of the bullshit in the short articles about each person. I’m not talking about wild claims of how good of a person they were. No. I’m...
Big Toe Fun
I was in a very big hurry to get my Amazon packages off the front porch when (much to my surprise) I slammed my big toe into a section of the house and broke it open. It hurts. It doesn’t hurt as much as I...
Mother’s Day
Found a nice history of Mother’s Day this morning. I’m pretty sure I’ve always believed that Hallmark created it but they did not. They just profit from it which went against the wishes of the person who officially founded it in the U.S. I live...
Unrecognized
This is the first time that I can remember that I don’t recognize any of the names on the famous birthdays page of the newspaper.
Mike Williams
Mike Williams
Amy Feeling
