Theme Week: Magic Conch Shell

I was given this giant conch shell by a total stranger on the Colombian Island of San Andres. I don’t want to get into the details of what led up to that but I’ll tell you this - that trip changed me from a hardcore, Ayn Rand spouting materialist, to someone who now [...]

Theme Week: Frog Corpse

I like to have the corpses of animals I fear. That’s one of the reasons I like my “Shark in a Jar” and it’s why I have a half of a dead frog for a change purse.
It’s a bullfrog from the Philippines. The species is not native to that region. During [...]

Theme Week: Coffee Pot Thing

When I bought this coffee pot thing at Value Village for six dollars, the woman behind the counter told me that she had one at home and had used it during the big blackout to prepare tea. I wouldn’t recommend that. Tea or using this to make it.
But, after you make a pot [...]

Theme Week: Early Morning Smoke

Is smoke a thing? It is, perhaps, too amorphous to be called thing. It’s more of a quality than a quantity. But, whatever it may be, my first smoke of the day is one of my favourite things.
I suppose some people would look at that cloud, at the slats of light [...]

Theme Week 1: Shark in a Jar

I should mention that these posts are in no particular order. Having said that, “Shark in a Jar” has always had a place close to my heart. It’s a shark and it’s in a jar.
I came into possession of this when I was a child on a family vacation in Maine. That [...]

Fuck That Theme Week

I had the best intentions. But it’s freezing out and I’m not going to a do a theme week that involves my nuts being turned into ice cubes. My balls are blue enough without adding windchill to the equation. I will get back to it at some point, but for now I’m [...]