“With flames as manifold resplendent all Was the eighth Bolgia, as I grew aware As soon as I was where the depth appeared.” -Dante’s Inferno, Canto XXVI            Motivation is an elusive mistress and often manifests amid idle hours. Nevertheless, her fruits respire a lively oneness, the achievements of which …

         Gilfred Wayne Osiris (Freddy-Wayne for short) didn’t know it, but whatever typical anatomical-degradation had accompanied his everyday, average aging had also been aggressively expedited by his loquacious consumption of that syrupy delight–honey-rye whiskey on the rocks. But, irregardless of this, since he was entirely unaware of it, although he’d had his …

“Ye shall know them by their fruits.” -Jesus “Man of the worldly mind [. . .] do you believe in me or not?” -Marley “Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.” -Michel de Montaigne      It is that merriest of momentous festivial yearly-conclusions, when that Turkishly saint stuffs my socks with old …

     Hello and Merry Christmas!      Did you know that, according to some Ancient Astronaut theorists, a mighty extraterrestrial, often called something like ‘Wodnes,’ descended the heavens amid that very miraculous an astronomical event—the winter solstice?  Indeed, it is true.  Good Wodnes, piloting his lofty luge, ferried along by his octet of perilous …

     Now we have heard tell of Moultine Monck and his deeds, the fall of young Mary, and the musicians’ tragedy.  And there is a final story here to tell.  So let us begin: Leshy Part three (part one, part two)         “If able, I would bear it, I do not …