Bill

Eureka!

means "I have found it!" in Greek, and no matter what tongue you choose, my bag finally made it home this afternoon (Wednesday). Got a call yesterday from a woman at the American Air counter in Madiso...
Posted by Bill on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:07:00 PST

cold coffee and an earful of bad jazz

back home in sunny LA, it's just past noon on Monday, and I'm on hold with United Airlines trying to find my lost bag! There's cold coffee in my porcelain mug, United piano theme music banging straigh...
Posted by Bill on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:42:00 PST

Happiness is a Rainy Day in Chicago

On my way to O'Hare this morning to catch a flight to Madison, WI, I realized that I was happy. I was riding shotgun in an airport shuttle heading out from the Loop on Interstate 90, looking out the w...
Posted by Bill on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:06:00 PST

Hell Before Breakfast

I'm hungry, need a slab or two of my homemade French toast before I head back out into the world. Lady in a silver Camry XLE (?) cut me off this a.m., but she used her turn signal, so I didn't have to...
Posted by Bill on Thu, 29 May 2008 09:51:00 PST

Tom Cruise Ship

Beatin' my tom- no, not my cat, my voodoo drum! It's makin' the neighbors nervous 'cause they don't know what to expect: Is it just Bill workin' out his libido? Or is it Choptop tenderizin' some poor ...
Posted by Bill on Tue, 13 May 2008 09:40:00 PST

(Somewhere) Between Polk Salad Annie & Cloverfield

"Polk Salad Annie/ Gator's got yer granny..." Now that song's all up in my head, Friday morning, 5/2/08. My coughing kid's off to the doctor with her mom; Mr Hanky's nuzzling in the crook of my left a...
Posted by Bill on Fri, 02 May 2008 09:12:00 PST

Cuts Like a Knife

Taking younger daughter to school this a.m.- she was up all night coughing her darn head off, missed the bus this morning- but she still wanted to go rather than stay home and be "bored to death." As ...
Posted by Bill on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:25:00 PST

gone phishin

Fired up the computer this morning, pulled into myspace, only to find out that my account had been "phished." "Phishing" is "malicious," stated the myspace bulletin, wherein someone steals access to y...
Posted by Bill on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:08:00 PST

Good Goo

Saturday a.m., back at my desk, Mr Hanky sipping from my coffee mug, now back on my shoulder. Just read my Travelogue of Terror in the new Rue Morgue Magazine (happy about it), the one with Vampira on...
Posted by Bill on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:47:00 PST

My animal associates

Chillin’ this morning with my pets, i mean my animal associates: my bird, Mr Hanky; the cat people, Heorshe and Kitty Bitty; the fish (with a name no human can pronounce w/o first drowning); and...
Posted by Bill on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:28:00 PST