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Maybe it’s old age catching up with me, but certain things don’t smell as good as they used to. It’s not that the smells have faded. They’ve changed. For instance, remember the smell of paper money? It was a lush,… READ MORE

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Ah, Halloween. Time to start Christmas shopping – for 2005. Did I say “Halloween”? Of course I meant “Harvest Festival,” that time of year when Food World swaps out its summer yellow Ho Hos for the harvest gold Ding Dongs…. READ MORE
Today’s topic is so weighty it will tilt the earth on its axis: the evolution of the TV and movie death scene. In a more innocent time, an actor died with dignity. A gunshot victim, for instance, would clutch his… READ MORE

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When I think of the current administration and the job those people are doing, I am reminded of Irish setters abusing Quaaludes, or Inspector Clouseau trying to remove the shrink wrap from a CD while driving a stick shift through… READ MORE

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Husband: Hello, Honey Bunny. Guess where I’m standing? <Chirp!> Wife: Hi, Sunggle-Icious. You’re standing in line at the grocery store checkout. <Chirp!> H: Ha, ha! You cheated, Snooky-Ookems. You peeked at the camera on my new walkie-talkie cell phone. And… READ MORE

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About halfway through today’s Pulitzer contender you will mutter, “Stone, you dunce. You don’t have the sense God gave the clown known as ‘Idiot Face.’ ” I was paying bills in my post-work fugue state. I’m sure you’re familiar with… READ MORE

Image courtesy of pxfuel. — I don’t imagine Thursday, the first day of school, was much fun for a certain group of IB students at Choctawhatchee High School. To bring you up to speed, the students were quoted in a… READ MORE

Photo courtesy of Del Stone Jr. — Wednesday was Take the Cats to the Vet Day. Lest you think this is a trivial subject unworthy of a column, let me assure you I am tired of solving world peace, curing… READ MORE

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Night. The leathery dark of the alone. A good time for a horror movie. “The Ring” on DVD. Missed it in the theater. They said it was scary. Horror movies no longer scare me. Things like colonoscopies scare me. Turn… READ MORE

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Well, well. Here we sit on Okaloosa Island. On the right lies our scenic marina-slash-sewer, aka Choctawhatchee Bay. Rumors of the Gulf of Mexico place it to our left, its existence privy only to the gloating apparatchiks who inhabit the… READ MORE