Author Archives: uncleblogsy

Next Season’s Greetings

     Look, nobody said you have to start singing “Little Drummer Boy”.      I understand, okay?  A lot of you have jokes about “pumpkin spice already?” you’re planning to toss at people.  Been there.  Do it myself.  But this is not part of the popular hatred for impending holidays (and/or winter) but an expression ofContinue reading “Next Season’s Greetings”

FUZZ ORDANED: Sunset

     Unfirom, hands folded behind his back, was studying the crowd at the tennis court.  None of these came within the bounds of his assignment, but this changed sometimes after a single lob.      He felt a sense of foreboding, perhaps involving tennis, perhaps not.  Anyone who dealt regularly with phronik felt foreboding every fewContinue reading “FUZZ ORDANED: Sunset”

More Bygones

     I was told over and over as a child—it was one of those things teachers felt we should know—that jack o’lanterns were originally made of turnips, not pumpkins.  We all wanted to know whether they had birthday cake candles in those days, but that was all we ever got: in the olden days, peopleContinue reading “More Bygones”

Inkwells and Bathtubs

     I was looking over a new postcard for my inventory and thought, “Wow!  How much longer does THAT joke have to live?”  I realized that even I understand some of these old postcard gags simply because I had read about the basic idea in books, or seen them in old movies.  A joke dependsContinue reading “Inkwells and Bathtubs”

FUZZ ORDAINED: Peter and the Big Bad

     “Here!” He set his ice cream sandwich on the backrest of the bench.  Really, this woman was either the most clumsy or least lucky female in the city.  A trailing corner of that banner had blown up in the wind and wound around one ankle.  As she was busy pulling her other ankle freeContinue reading “FUZZ ORDAINED: Peter and the Big Bad”

FICTION FRIDAY: A Teeny Tiny Sequel

     Once upon a time, a teeny tiny woman lived in a teeny tiny house with a teeny tiny cat and her dainty darling daughter who had a dainty darling dog..  The four of them loved their teeny tiny house, which was a teeny tiny walk from a teeny tiny town      One day, theContinue reading “FICTION FRIDAY: A Teeny Tiny Sequel”

Owed to a Skylark

     I see by the number of views it received that my column about those who communicate on the Interwebs adding to world peace by just chilling a little and not feeling it is necessary to cry out in righteous indignation at every little thing was about as successful as a solicitation for funds toContinue reading “Owed to a Skylark”

FUZZ ORDAINED: Twilight

     “They always talk about remembering.”  Meadow Saffron took a double handful of flower petals and flung these after the couple moving along the sidewalk.      “It’s what we do,” Primrose told her.  “They won’t forget when WE help them Do It.  This one wasn’t so easy though.”      “It was fun.”  Bluebell shaped aContinue reading “FUZZ ORDAINED: Twilight”