The Skin Traveler
© 2001 Laura Fink / All Rights Reserved
http://www.clockdomain.com Episode One - The Lion Doesn’t Sleep
Tonight
The sculpted bushes and phosphorous fountains of Shiver Tower
Gardens began to fade, and Tock felt a strange buzzing in his
head. He saw his hand reach in slow motion for his mouse, but
before he could touch it, he […]
Every morning when sit down at the ole computer and go to check
my email I know two things will happen. (1) I won’t have
received any new sign-ups in any of the hundreds of affiliate
programs that ‘guaranteed’ me a massive downline and (2) I will
have at least 30 emails that are unsolicited or SPAM.
As […]
Birds of a Feather
1. Which is not a group term for birds?
A. Flock
B. Flight
C. Volery
D. Swarm
D. Swarm
TBD: Various insects can collectively be called a swarm but not birds!
2. Which of these is a fear of birds?
A. Alektorophobia
B. Astraphobia
C. Ornithophobia
D. Ouranophobia
C. Ornithophobia
TBD: Although alektorophobia was close, that is a fear of chickens! Astraphobia is the fear […]
Trust.
We are here to listen, To every word you say, We will surely
then glisten, What the mood is in this way, So many start to
chatter, And forward on their views, Little knowing it wont
matter, And will never make the news.
We are all for truth, For transparancy not lies, So we can face
our youth, With honesty […]
Copyright Theolonius McTavish 2005.
BRING OUT YOUR INNER ROMEO OR Juliet!
– Or, where to find a romantic rendez-vous to reconnoiter? -
By Theolonius McTavish, currently a ribald roving reporter (with an abiding interest in arcane topics like curious, odd, or downright postively playful placenames), and part-time errant carpet knight, (a left-over piece of Karma from a […]
When Chuck Norris does a push up, instead of pushing himself up, he pushes the world down
There are no steroids in baseball… only people Chuck Norris has breathed on
Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Chuck Norris decided to punch his way out of his mothers womb
Chuck Norris once shot down a German Fighter […]
Sometimes you just get lucky.
I ran out of gas in Paiper Machet, Louisiana, on my way to a convention for freelance bumper sticker writers. My “Watch Out For The Idiot Behind Me” had become an industry classic and I was to be the keynote speaker.
This was in the days before there was an all-night […]
We all want attention. As children we crave the attention of our parents. Later in life, we want to be seen and noticed by friends and family. And when running most any type of business, we must attract the attention of our potential customers.
But how do you get somebody’s undivided attention? When you were an […]
Critics cheered the publication of a conditionally new book, The American Home Front, penned by Alistair Cooke, most widely known as the host of Masterpiece Theater but earlier on an innovative British journalist.
The tome, written in the early 1940s, provides a portrait of America gearing up for World War II, which none too few consider […]
I’m not sure who said that true love can’t be found on the
Internet but I beg to differ.
It was a lonely point in my life. I had just lost him and was
visiting a friend’s house. She was an avid user of the internet,
finding everything on there. She pulled his picture and said,
“Well, what do you […]