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Old Painting Fun: “Excursion Into Philosophy” And Comic Book Guy From “The Simpsons”

Let’s have some more fun with old paintings. Today, let’s mash up “Excursion Into Philosophy” by Edward Hopper with Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons (Quote from “Treehouse of Horror VIII,” right when he looked up from advising Aquaman in a comic not to marry a human only to realize that a nuclear bomb was about to fall on him.).

Kind of works, doesn’t it? Funny how I keep doing this with the work of Hopper.

Fbomb Tonight!

The Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series is tonight! Check it: Bad Fame End of Summer Fbomb. You should come down if you can, things start at 7:30 at The Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, CO.

Hillary Leftwich is hosting and Marty McGovern is the feature. It’ll be great. As usual, I’ll be looking for a spot myself during the open mic portion. Looking forward to it.

Arrrrr! ‘appy Easter!

Arrrrr! ‘appy Easter!

I didn’t even have to make a new one for this, which means I’ve already done this joke. Thankfully, there’s nothing stopping me from doing it again.

A Musical Interlude

And now, a brief musical interlude:

Wasn’t that relaxing?

Some Excellent Writing By Some People I Know

I’m always sharing my own writing, but I always see other writers I know coming out with some stellar work. Just wanted to take today to share a few recent striking ones done by people I know:

Exquisite Duet: “It breathes between our fingers” by Antonia Crane and “Let Us See” by Steven Dunn
“Boss” by Bud Smith
“Waiting for Godo(nu)t by Gay Degani
“Target Practice” by Christopher Allen

“Writing Communities as Family” by Hillary Leftwich

Thought I’d share just a few. Seeing a lot of good stuff these days.

There’s A Chance I’m Hungry Right Now

There’s a chance I’m hungry right now.

Can you tell?

BEWARE THE IDES OF SEPTEMBER!!!!!

BEWARE THE IDES OF SEPTEMBER!!!!!

Wait, that’s March. No one gives a crap about the Ides of September. In fact, the Ides of September was the 13th anyway.

Never mind.

A Tale Of Two Hot Springs

My wife and I like to swim, especially on trips. As such, we hit the hot springs in Glenwood Springs a number of times on our recent Labor Day trip there. We actually went four of the five days of the trip, and only not on the fifth due to running out of time. Of the two possibilities we knew of in Glenwood Springs, we went twice to both.

Glenwood Hot Springs

and Iron Mountain Hot Springs

It’s hard to say which I preferred. Each had some pros and cons. Glenwood Hot Springs was cheaper, and had more history feel about it (part of their facilities dating back to 1888).  However, they only have two large pools (one 98 degrees Fahrenheit or so and the other 104, I believe) in one big area and can be kind of a zoo.  Iron Mountain Hot Springs has tons of little pools that are somewhat isolated from each other (ranging from lower 90s or so all the way up to 108). It’s more expensive, but less of a zoo. Swankier, which can be both good and bad.

Bottom line, I can’t really decide between the two. I’m kind of glad we went an equal number of times to each.

This Is What Convinced Me To Visit Doc Holliday’s Grave

One of the main reasons I wanted to go to Glenwood Springs on our recent Labor Day trip was because Doc Holliday is buried there. We’d stayed there briefly one night years ago on our way back from Las Vegas, but it was only later that we learned that Doc’s grave was there. When I learned this fact, I had to go back.

Of course, this is why I had to visit Doc Holliday’s grave, totally removed from anything to do with the real Doc himself:

Anyway, turns out they don’t know where Doc is actually buried. They know he’s in that cemetery in Glenwood Springs (which is quite a hike up that hill from the road, though the view is spectacular), but they don’t know precisely where. Doc has no actual marker, and records are long ago lost. They put up a marker a while back, but that was because Doc had become popular form books and movies since the 50s and they were hoping to capitalize on that.

It worked.

Good Day And Welcome To Day Twelve

Good day, and welcome to day twelve:

(of September).