Category: Art of Fiction

  • The Inspiration for Pizza by Candlelight – Sightseeing “Unending Wonders”

    The Inspiration for Pizza by Candlelight – Sightseeing “Unending Wonders”

    [clear] Inspiration for Pizza by Candlelight 1 – Sightseeing “Unending Wonders of a Subatomic World or In Search of the Great Penguin” – Google Maps Redux [clear] Inspiration for Pizza by Candlelight 2 – Sightseeing “Unending Wonders of a Subatomic World or In Search of the Great Penguin” – Google Maps Redux Is it bad…

  • The Depression Cathedral of Hoover Dam

    The Depression Cathedral of Hoover Dam

    Hoover Dam – Google Maps Redux View full I realize that though I wrote about Hoover Dam in Unending Wonders of a Subatomic World, the event was streamlined, couched in comedy taking advantage of Hope and Chance wrangling life on The Road. Your experience probably won’t be like mine because we all parse things a…

  • The Thunderbird and the Ball of Twine Photo Sessions Pt. 2

    The Thunderbird and the Ball of Twine Photo Sessions Pt. 2

    Where it didn’t really happen as it’s fiction but what didn’t happen has its base in this place kind of as well as something that may have occurred here or a place like here but is very different in the book This is not where Johnnie’s girlfriend, Hellene, lived, and my friend is pointing this…

  • The Thunderbird and the Ball of Twine Photo Sessions Pt. 1

    The Thunderbird and the Ball of Twine Photo Sessions Pt. 1

    The Thunderbird and the Ball of Twine Photo Sessions – Pt. 1 Where it didn’t really happen as it’s fiction but what didn’t happen has its base in this place kind of as well as something that may have occurred here or a place like here but is very different in the book What is…

  • In the Name of Research I Visit the International UFO Museum, Part 3

    In the Name of Research I Visit the International UFO Museum, Part 3

    [highlight highlight_type=”italic” color=”yellow”]Part three in a series of posts on subjects found in the book Thunderbird and the Ball of Twine. For part two click here. We are still in Roswell, New Mexico, at the International UFO Museum and Research Center, at 114 Main Street, but now we are no longer loitering on the sidewalk…

  • In the Name of Research I Visit the International UFO Museum, Part 2

    In the Name of Research I Visit the International UFO Museum, Part 2

    [highlight highlight_type=”italic” color=”yellow”]Part two in a series of posts on subjects found in the book Thunderbird and the Ball of Twine. For part one click here. We are back in Roswell, New Mexico, at the International UFO Museum and Research Center, at 114 Main Street, which used to look like this in 1988. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lastpictureshow/2455953743/ The…

  • In the Name of Research I Visit the International UFO Museum, Part 1

    In the Name of Research I Visit the International UFO Museum, Part 1

    [highlight highlight_type=”italic” color=”yellow”]Part One in a series of posts on subjects found in the book Thunderbird and the Ball of Twine. In Which I Explore the International UFO Museum and Research Center at Roswell, New Mexico To where would Odile McDonald have made a point of making a pilgrimage after having seen a UFO? Okay,…

  • Thunderbird and the Ball of Twine, a Folk Tale

    Thunderbird and the Ball of Twine, a Folk Tale

    To read a question and answer FAQ on the book, follow this link to the Thunderbird and the Ball of Twine page. PURCHASE THE PAPERBACK AT LULU BY CLICKING HERE PURCHASE THE $2.99 EBOOK FOR KINDLE, ON SALE AT AMAZON VIA THIS LINK[clear] Thunderbird and the Ball of Twine (A Folk Tale) takes up, in…

  • Unending Wonders of a Subatomic World (or) In Search of the Great Penguin

    Unending Wonders of a Subatomic World (or) In Search of the Great Penguin

    In those days, there was a penguin in the desert… To read a question and answer FAQ on the book and learn a lot more on it (and see videos), visit the Unending Wonders page. There are excerpts there as well. Click here to purchase. UNENDING WONDERS OF A SUBATOMIC WORLD is an angst-ridden, slap-happy,…

  • The Fly, Pose 1 (Hipstamatic iPhone Capture)

    The Fly, Pose 1 (Hipstamatic iPhone Capture)

    The Fly, Pose 1 (Hipstamatic iPhone Capture)[clear] Identical to the fly ashtray that’s in Jarmusch’s “Mystery Train”…

  • She was Our Mother, so she cried

    My sinuses are exploding, I’m fuzzed with heavy duty Benadryl but can’t sleep, can’t think to do anything marginally useful or productive, and so here I am ready to talk about George Alec Effinger’s “What Entropy Means to Me”. Jennifer at Saying Yes picked it up as I’d good things to say about it and…

  • The small ways in which art imitates life – Sightseeing “Unending Wonders”

    The small ways in which art imitates life – Sightseeing “Unending Wonders”

    Fireworks Emporium, Tennessee Fireworks Emporium Revisited, Tennessee – Google Maps Redux The thrill and explosive, thunderous pizazz of colorful fireworks, which we Americans so closely associate with the clarion call of freedom and the 4th of July, but instead of a celebration of peace were probably more intended to recall and celebrate the “rockets red…