A Flashback Friday Presntation from March 2020: Have little space, no time, and just a few tools? Try miniature work.When I started woodcarving, I had just a few tools and almost no wood. I carved the little box from scraps of cherry and walnut. The tool kit for making the small sloop was minimum: a …
Obscure
For Fandangos' Flashback Friday. Originally published on April 26,2020 Ego? Sure, I do. Why else would I have done all those shows? Blog posts and blather about my carving from one end of the internet to the other! I guess mine is as healthy as anybody else's. But you know who I admire? It's the …
Campfire Stories
The crew all sat around the campfire. The conversation was about monsters and spooks. Anticipation ran high after each selection as the crew detailed their humorous, and scary choices. The Stay Puffed Marshmellow Man got several mentions. Also listed were: vampires, mummies, the Holy Ghost, their in-laws, and former husbands and wives. It was all …
Bamboozle
If you asked him who among the fathers of modern con he most respected, he'd answer with no hesitation, Charles Ponzi.
Ritual
It was among the few things I fondly missed when I left grad school to return to the world—the dancing. Anthropologists are taken up with the study of casual and formal rituals. Imbibing psychoactive beverages and dancing performed the role of a ceremony for our tribe of graduate students. Our tribal elders frequently joined in, …
Not as they Appear
Things are not always what they appear to be.
Fandango’s Flashback Friday -By Rail
At one time in New England history, to be on the map as a community meant being incorporated into the region's rail network.
Constantly
A Fandango Flashback Friday Presentation- from August 2021 Sometimes find it's hard to know the difference between love and abuse. In my day, I slipped and stumbled from one bad relationship to another. Some were so bad that comparison to a horrible medical condition, say diverticulitis, is not unwarranted. You become seduced by the idea …
Motor Mouth
for Fandango's Flashback Friday - from July 25, 2023 Some cultures view disease not as a disorder of the body caused by viruses or microorganisms. They view it as an illness in the community. An objective of healing is to bring the communal body back to health. Rites and rituals are used to bring about a reconciliation of the …
Slap Shot
For Fandango's Flashback Friday: If you've read some of my other posts, you may have heard of the cat I refer to as the "Dread Menace"; this is his back story. In the Beginning I found him as a kitten while living in Ottawa, Ontario. He started life as a combative kitten and grew into …
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