Year: 2024

Eeyah! I Lost a Book!

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We’ve been doin’ a lot of tribulatin’ around here lately; and this morning another pile of bricks without straw was added to our load.

Ozias, Prince in Peril went missing.

No! No! The whole cotton-pickin’ novel! Eight sets of chapters floating around in cyberspace. My editor, Susan, got a new computer recently… and guess what wasn’t on it? And as luck would have it, we, too, got a new computer. And I couldn’t find my chapter sets.

By and by I happened to think of my webmaster, Jill, at Chalcedon. If she didn’t know what to do, no one would.

Huzzah! She did know! And she walked me through it, and we recovered the whole book, all the chapters. And now I know what to do if (heaven forbid) it happens again.

I guess I’d better post some nooze today, I’m too worn out to go back to Ozias Prince Enthroned. Try again tomorrow.

 

Can We Climb Out of the Hole?

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Last week (and last night was no picnic, either) has just about flattened us. We are not able to administer assorted pills to Robbie. We are stressed out, weary, addled, a total mess.

To add to the fun, my manuscript for Ozias, Prince in Peril, has gone missing. I can’t find it. My editor can’t find it. Doesn’t it have to be somewhere? I don’t see any possibility of me re-writing it.  I think that might just finish me off.

Maybe a cigar will help. I have to wait till after 12:00 to call Jill, my webmaster. She’ll know what to do! (He says this with a painful smile…)

‘No More Columbus, Ohio’ (2020)

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You know those DNA tests are racist! She is, she is, she is a Native American! (And I am the Sultan of Swat.)

Columbus is still Columbus, so I guess this little plan fell through.

No More Columbus, Ohio

The above is, of course, a satire. It’s edging closer and closer to reality, though. Our little cultural canoe could easily go over the falls.

(Am I allowed to say “canoe”?

(Who are they going to dig up to replace Biden, when he finally blows the rest of his fuses?)

‘One Wide River to Cross’

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Is this a hymn–or just a folk song about Noah and the Ark?

It’s both, wouldn’t you say? I loved it as a little boy, and I love it now.

Sung here by Chuck Szabo.

A Dog’s Delight

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This takes me back to my childhood. When the ice cream trunk came down out street, all the kids joined it at a run (clutching a dime in my hot little hand). Our dog Rags looked forward to this. In one gulp he could devour a popsicle or an ice cream cone.

The dog in this video has much better manners.

Bonus Hymn: ‘O Worship the King’

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These past few days have just clobbered us, Patty, Robbie, and me. I feel a need for this hymn–O Worship the King, performed by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band–reminding us we’re in God’s hands. I’ve often played it on my harmonica.

Let’s find an easy movie and relax with it. Maybe after supper I’ll find a nice critter video to post.

Bringing Back Rodney (‘Oy, Rodney’)

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Introducing Chapter DCCXIX (“How do you pronounce that, anyway?”), Violet Crepuscular, The Queen of Suspense, explains her decision to bring the evil medieval sorcerer, Black Rodney, back into the story.

“I know, I know–the critics are all saying he can’t possibly come back, he must be some 600 years old or more,” she pullulates. “But they have failed to reckon with time-travel spells!”

It has been, however, a long, long time since Rodney used any of those spells; and this time, something has gone wrong.

Black Rodney has come back as a very large stick insect.

“Now that he’s a stick insect,” she explains, “he has no vocal organs. He can’t talk. He can’t pronounce the counter-spell which might restore him to human form. Then again, it might not. These things are very tricky!”

What was the purpose of bringing back Black Rodney after all this time?

“Oh, for cryin’ out loud!” she cries out loud. “There’s just no pleasing certain people, is there? Just last night my neighbor, Mr. Pitfall, spat out one of my toothpaste brownies! He said it tasted like something from Pnath! I don’t know where that is. But I’ll betcha whoever lives there has healthy teeth!”

We will leave it here, for the moment.The critics are getting restless.

 

‘Any Other Name’ Allowed: Any Name but Jesus

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“Any other name but Jesus”

A city manager in California has banned police and Fire Dept. chaplains from publicly praying in the name of Jesus (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/city-scolded-banning-chaplains-praying-jesus-name/). In fact, he went so far as to say they could pray in “any other name.”

Huh? You mean like… Zeus? Lucifer? Huitzilopotchtli?

But see, according to this bacterium in Carlsbad, CA, praying in Jesus’ name “creates a hostile work environment,” yatta-yatta. Inclusive! Non-sectarian! Nothing’s changed except the names: the idols and false gods are still there.

Whom or what does he pray to? Never mind, I don’t want to know.

The city council is being urged to lift the ban. I’ll be surprised if they do. How hard is it to find a liberal church wallah who says it’s perfectly OK to ban Jesus? And in California, no less.

‘Toxic Fiction’ (2013)

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You’d never guess he used to star in “I Dream of Jeannie”

An adult wants to be like the villain in a TV series. Hint: God didn’t fail to notice that.

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Remember Dallas–with Larry Hagman as the bad guy, J.R. Ewing? Remember how popular that was? It came out in 1978, was a huuuuge hit throughout the ’80’s, and finished up in 1991. If you’re too young to remember, trust me–there was nothing in our pop culture bigger than Dallas.

And we had weasels out there who wanted to be “just like J.R.!” So they did nasty, petty, shameful things. On purpose. Because they thought it was cool.

Is this what happened to the Etruscans? Is this why they’re not here anymore? Were there other civilizations, now extinct, that praised and emulated things they should have been ashamed of?

Yeah. Probably.

‘Be Thou My Vision’

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Yes, yeah, I’m late. One has to buy groceries sometime, and we were two days late for that. Just got back from the store.

The ancient Irish hymn, Be Thou My Vision–worth waiting for, don’t you think? Sung by the Lebanon County Youth Chorus.