I’m trying to self promote without really appearing to self promote. Honestly, they tell me that blogging to promote my books is something you should just do and have fun doing. So that’s what I’m doing. Just to be funny I am making fun of myself for advertising my self. Isn’t that a gas? Isn’t it?
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May 31, 2014 · 10:46 pm
Who Fans
Back in about 1979 I discovered Dr. Who from the BBC on PBS. It soon became my all-time favorite Sci-Fi series, ahead of Battlestar Galactica, the Twilight Zone, Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, and Land of the Lost. I started watching with Jon Pertwee, the Third Doctor. I didn’t even realize that doctors came before, or that regeneration was even possible. I watched the good Doctor, aided by U.N.I.T. battle Cybermen, Silurians, Daleks, Sontarans, and Ice Warriors from Mars. I saw London attacked by Daleks. I saw the Doctor driving about saving the world in his goofy yellow car. I loved it with all my heart.
Naturally I chose to Paffooney the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton. Makes a lot of sense, huh? I watched all the episodes I could manage with the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Doctors before I even knew about the First and Second. Then I got a chance to see the very first episode with William Hartnell as the Doctor. I was thoroughly enchanted. I’m not like today’s kids who can’t be bothered to watch anything in Black and White. I watched every episode PBS could air. At that time many of the first episodes were lost or seriously misplaced. But I grew a special fondness for Doctor number Two because that character is so much like me; bubbling over with useless facts, bumbling good intentions, and thinking by playing his recorder (though my thought-instrument is actually a harmonica).
I still crave more Doctor Who adventures. I loved Doctor Seven, Sylvester McCoy, too. Even more because he’s also now a part of The Hobbit movies. And I really appreciate the new Doctors, especially David Tennant. Doctor Who lives again! And maybe we will even learn his actual name! He’s Doctor Who?
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Player #3
Over the years as a teacher, you run into a large number of students that you will absolutely fall in love with. And sometimes… they will fall in love with you also. Oh, my! What a potentially dangerous situation! But it doesn’t have to end in hurt feelings or criminal charges. Sometimes you find the perfect balance. The little girl that sits in the front row can be the apple of your eye… and you never actually take a bite… and neither does she. It becomes a silent dance of swirling smiles, and laughter. The occasional tear… the valentine card… Making her parents feel good with your testimony about what a wonderful scholar she is. Nothing ever has to be wrong… and if it isn’t, the picture stays with you for a lifetime. One day you will have to paint it. Sweet, sentimental perfection.
March 20, 2014 · 12:26 am
Paffoonies By The Numbers
So, here is one secret recipe for baking a Paffooney with some humor in the process.
Step 1 : First you have to get a stupid idea and draw a witless drawing of it on a nice fresh piece of paper. Here the Princess is holding step one, a portrait of what I believe Valerie Clarke, the main character of Snow Babies might look like. She is supposed to be the most beautiful little girl who ever lived in Norwall, a small Iowa farm town.
Step 2 : Then you must get a good digital picture of it. Here I used the Princess as a makeshift picture stand and took the picture in sunlight muted by clouds.
Step 3 : I must then remove all clutter and background from the image using the big old eraser thingy on the Microsoft computer paint program. sometimes I need to erase pixel by pixel until I am thoroughly pixelated.
Step 4 : This gets me ready to use my handy-dandy cheap-o photo program (I always wanted to use both handy-dandy and cheap-o photo in the same sentence! Item 128 on my bucket list.) I can layer the image over any of a number of stolen and parolin’ background photos.
And so, I thus become a pretend world-renowned unknown clown artist with a penchant for multiple uses of internal rhymes as well as multiple uses of the same boring, wretched sketches.
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Cartooney Paffooney
A particularly pulse-pounding part of a post-able Paffooney is the Looney-Tooney side of cartoonies.
A good Paffooney, a wise Paffooney, a particularly Buffooney Paffooney…
Requires a certain something… an attention to detail
Scraggles here demonstrably demonsters, er demonstrates, the detail in the devil, er, devil in the details…
With inexplicable and despicable gloves on hands we never see…
And Looney eyes that at once appear wise and simultaneously devise the kind of satirical reprise that can surprise and infinitely infantilize…
He’s sorta creepy with eyes that aren’t sleepy and expressions not so deepy…
And his smile will spread a mile and is also infantile…
And the rat that he has caught has a shape that’s overwrought and full of little thought,
But never will he kill it and fill it full of millet,
Cause a mouse can be a friend to the bitter better end.
And so this poem don’t rhyme… or does it? And it has no theme or prime… or was it?
Just silly nonsense words on a canvas all unfurled in Paffooney Looney Language with each sentence stitched and curled.
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The Truth About the Bard
I drew this Paffooney back in 1980 after my favorite Shakespeare play, the Tempest. The truth is, by rereading that particular play, the Bard’s last, I have come to the conclusion that the actor known as Will Shakespeare did not write the plays that bear his name. It was in fact, in all likelihood, Edward DeVere, the Earl of Oxford who did. I will write about this further in the future. It is the magic of conspiracy theory that draws me like a sprite to the theatre.
February 9, 2014 · 11:06 pm
One Blue Night
I was always the one on the outside looking in. The sad fact is, all of us who are too creative and sensitive for our own good feel that way. We wish we had what see in there, but miss the beauty inherent in being on the outside. Stalker… peeping faun… magical wishes… and dreams in the dark blue of the night.
February 7, 2014 · 3:35 am
Many, Many Murphys
In both the books Snow Babies and The Bicycle-Wheel Genius I used the characters of the Magnificent Murphy Clan to weave actual people from my past into my stories. The Murphys; Mary and Warren, Warren’s father Sean “Cudgel” Murphy, Mary’s and Warren’s kids, Danny, Dilsey, Mike, Little Sean, Daisy, Sarah, Thomas “Pumpkin” Murphy, and Baby Jane all live together in a small, four- bedroom house dubbed “Murphy Mansion”.
Here is a look at a Paffooney of the irrepressible Mary Murphy with daughter Dilsey, and Little Sean on her shoulders.,
And here is one of my anti-hero Pirates, Mike Murphy with his little girlfriend Blueberry Bates.
Mike has the distinction of being in all three of my Norwall Novels, a very rare character indeed. And, NO, that doesn’t mean that he is me just because we have the same first name… Okay, maybe a little bit me, but that’s just the nature of writing silly novels about adventures through time and space and farm-town Iowa. I’m hoping to make you curious enough to buy one of my books. Catch a Falling Star is available as a hardback, paperback, or e-book from Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and the link here to I-Universe. But I know you are far too smart for me, and I can never hook you just on the strength of my nerdy humor or my implausible Paffoonies. Here’s hoping a look at the Murphys will help.
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Catch a Falling Star 