I can’t claim to be an art expert, but I know art when I see it…
Category: Humor/Fiction
READY, FIRE, AIM: Not That Kind of ‘Fire’
Marshal Michel Ney was sentenced to death by firing squad for his role supporting the brief return of Napoleon Bonaparte from exile in 1815…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Flat Earth vs. Flat Taxes
For nearly all of human history, the Earth has been flat, and everyone knew it was flat…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Cold…
A friend told me the other day that she had never felt it so hot here in Pagosa Springs, in the 30 years since she first started visiting…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Taking on the Annoyance Economy
I didn’t know we even had an Annoyance Economy until I read this PDF…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Not a Money Machine… But Still, a Published Novel of Some Kind
I have no idea if ‘Jordan Reyes’ exists in reality. I do know, however, that my novel does not yet exist in reality. Not yet…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Whose Election Is It, Anyway?
I vote every chance I get. My motto: “Vote early, and vote often.”…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Buy Local, Buy Often… and Read the Newspaper…
So anyway, I’m grateful that my little backwater town still has a weekly print newspaper, and another local news outlet available online…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Fat Banking
“ASPS: What can a patient expect from upfront costs or storage fees associated with fat banking?”
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Colorado Candidate Who Can Exorcise Demons
Just what Colorado really needs…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Luddites Among Us
One of my friends showed me her dumbphone the other day…
READY, FIRE, AIM: I Wish God Was My CEO
Hobby Lobby got itself mired in controversy after a blogger reported that the chain neglected to stock Hanukkah items…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Windmills of My Mind
“Whenever it starts blowing like this, there’s a rainstorm coming,” Becky claimed. I had never noticed that fact…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Not the Greatest Sentence Ever Written?
The timing was important, because Mr. Isaacson’s subject matter was the following sentence…
READY, FIRE, AIM: A Pagosa Springs Riddle?
The message was strange because a readerboard is usually tasked with announcing useful information, which this was not…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Bird’s Eye View of J.J. Audubon
“Hey, did you know that Audubon was Black?” she said…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The World’s Oldest Man, Reconsidered
I’m fairly sure that I’m 62 years old, because I have a birth certificate that states I was born in 1964…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Who is the Guru?
And speaking of trade-offs, there have been some big changes in America’s popcorn environment…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
As we all remember, one of the pigs built his house out of straw, and the second, out of sticks. The third pig built a sturdy house out of bricks…
