42 Dreams of Arizona Bay

The answer is not in a bathrobe.   
Not even in a cool, blue, red and white diagonal-striped robe. With dreadlocks and a bandana.
I was disappointed.
Jordan the Bathrobe Guy. I’d seen him from a distance once or twice, and marveled at how confident he was, to walk into a bar dressed like he’d just gotten out of [...]

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We’re refugees from some sort of attack. Hundreds of people mill around confused, looking for shelter. I pick up a frightened child, a snotty-nosed, blond little toddler. Even though he’s snotty and dirty, I feel some affection for him, want to help. He’s well behaved, clings to me.
We stand in great groups, trying to draw a [...]

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I’ve been meaning to write what I thought about the first season of Doctor Who, now that it has finished its American run on Sci-Fi.
Fantastic. The Doctor’s tagline sums up how I felt about the series.
Going into the show, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I gave it a faithful fan’s try and was surprised. [...]

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Stupid, evil cell phone. I do have a signal here, but don’t let that fool you. Move one centimeter, and nothing.
I’d like to complain about having both a landline and a cell phone, but never using either. About no one ever calling. I can go for days and days without a single nontelemarketer call on the landline. [...]

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Let’s Go Shopping, once a separate blog, has become a much-neglected part of my writing.
I had my camera with me on a shopping trip and thought I’d bag this for amusement:

It’s the law. What lawbreakers Calfornians, and in particular Fresnans, have turned out to be.

Carts meet in their attempts to escape the yuppies in this [...]

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