Recent content by Rigor Mortis

I knew this thread was haunted

I've a brother in Ottawa and, at the time (1996), another brother in St Louis, Missouri. The year before we married, we had time and energy, combined with a very modest budget, bought a car for 500 dollars and took off with no destination in mind, other than ending up back in Toronto in time for...

I drove a stick shift from St Louis through Colorado, Vegas, on to San Fran and up towards Oregon, back through Yellowstone, on to Gettysburg and then Ottawa until leaving the car in the airport in Toronto with the keys on the wheel for my brother's sister-in-law to collect. A little Chevy...

Good God, people. Do you think we're savages? Left to right we have clutch, brake and accelerator, much like the rest of the world. If the rental is hybrid or electric (have a spare set of batteries on board), it will be automatic, meaning the middle pedal is removed and the brake switched to...

On my travels yesterday, I was briefly behind a truck fitted with paint dispensers for road markings. Across the back there was a banner that said, "We have to draw a line somewhere!" Made me laugh.

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searching for a silver lining in a cloudless sky

It's infuriating!! Only trouble is, there's a bloody song for every objection you might raise as well. Just kidding about the infuriating part. The rest of that sentence is true in both theory and practice.

As long as I can remember, my mother would break into song off the first few words in whatever question we might ask her. There was a song for every circumstance and she knew what it was. To a more limited extent, I've a similar tendency.

🎵...all over the world it's the same...strangers...talk only 'bout the weather...🎵 Strange Weather by Tom Waits, excellently covered by Marianne Faithful, RIP.

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Yeah. I'm here. Anything that comes to mind might be entirely inappropriate, so I'll say nothing. There is no place for humour in literary fiction.

Well, I've decided to include a naked fist fight in all my stories, regardless of subject matter.

Exactly! Setting Wuthering Heights on a spaceship does not make it less literary. Maybe a little harder to gallop across the fields, though.

That's not always my primary focus, though I do try to make it worthwhile for the reader to bear with me. Not always effectively, I might add.