Spitball Army

Mail carrier waves at me: “Happy 9/11!” I assume, as when I “Like” a friend’s Facebook post announcing his manuscript’s rejection.

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Card is untitled on its front.

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From the National Geographic website: Camels cast shadows across the Qala-e-Bost arch in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province. The 11th century arch, which appears on the 100 Afghani note, marks the principal approach to the ancient fortress citadel of Bost, later renamed Lashkar Gah. Over the centuries, the city bore multiple assaults by the Ghorids, Genghis […]

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The Good Earth, or How Paul Muni and Luise Rainer Conceived Three Chinese Children. The other special effects were pretty cool, too.

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Cheap microwaves bleed x-rays, a customer avows. Know what you mean, I say. She nods, unaware it’s Day 18 of my radiation therapy.

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In the opening credits to Shane, Jack Palance is billed as Walter Jack Palance. When Shane changes from his light blue long-sleeved shirt to his buckskin frontiersman duds, you know he means business. Shane subplots: homesteaders vs. cattle baron gangs; young boy’s hero worship; gunfighter struggling to suppress his past; love triangle. I tell Mother […]

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As seen from the top of the Kirklin Clinic parking deck.

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for a doctor

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Pizza-induced nightmare. Werner Herzog narration. Interruption inspired by Sam Adams. Sustained wakefulness courtesy 2 AM thunder.

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Card is titled: “Crystal Bay Lake Tahoe.”

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