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June 29, 2014 At 3:19 this morning, the power went off. I had fallen asleep with the bedside lamp on and a Robert Parker ‘Spenser’ mystery on my chest. (Robert Parker is dead, yet ‘Spenser’ lives—go figure.) No power meant … Continue reading →

June 25, 2014 BS 1: Welcome to Porch Talk. We’re Click and Clack the BS brothers. Today we talk about porches, porch repair, diets, weather, black raspberries, house buying, green tomatoes, burrowing dogs and women. And remember don’t talk like … Continue reading →

June 24, 2014 Saturday night at 11, I was torqued into my broken recliner and sound asleep. I had been changing channels because “Saturday Night Live” was a rerun with Seth Rogen as the host, and Seth Rogen and Jonah … Continue reading →

June 21, 2014 Now is the summer of my discontent. My right shin and foot have been in a cast for two weeks and I’m relegated to stretching for exercise. Scout the Cat is enjoying my downtime. She sleeps now … Continue reading →

June 20, 2014 If it hadn’t been for my neighbor Irene bringing me delicious containers of food, I wouldn’t have sat in the living room for lunch by the box of raisins I left on the floor last night during Letterman. … Continue reading →

June 16, 2014 The greatest literary character of them all, Leo Bloom, a rather nondescript, middle-age man, wanders his city of Dublin on June 16, 1904. He confronts friends, enemies, shopkeepers and bartenders, vendors and grifters. He journeys from eight … Continue reading →

June 18, 2014 When I was a kid, my Grandma Olive told me that mourning doves only favored houses where people were about to die. (She also believed that the moon had a light switch.) I believed her, of course. … Continue reading →

June 11, 2014 In Soybeania, spices are salt, pepper, ketchup and Famous somebody’s barbeque sauce. A few years back, some folks opened a shop in downtown Alton dedicated to hot sauces. I didn’t hold out much hope that it would … Continue reading →

Dear Mr. Baldwin, Since you enrolled in Medicare, a mere fourteen months ago, we find that you have broken four ribs, a collarbone, one neck vertabrae, and your right foot. You have exceeded the amount of injuries for which you … Continue reading →

June 8, 2014 To pee or not to pee is not a question. Neither is it an answer. I have been peeing all my life, in public, in ratty road restrooms, in palatial bathrooms, accidentally on floors, in jars and … Continue reading →