Captian's Log Smiled 31 Mar 202621 Mar 2026 Looking ahead, I find another shopping trolly in my car's path. Sighing, I pull the emergency break, unbuckle, and open my door. Pushing the cart out of my way, I…
Captian's Log Smiled 30 Mar 202621 Mar 2026 Still, one would wish the world be a little more sensible, I thought crawling into my car, a little less ostentatiously inconstant. Seatbelt, key, engine's roar, mirror, slowly pulling out,…
Captian's Log Smiled 29 Mar 202621 Mar 2026 Was I mad? Was the world? Was this a dream? Why had I smiled, and why had it felt so bitter, that smile I made at the wall and black…
Captian's Log Smiled 28 Mar 202621 Mar 2026 And was it all a dream? The thin, black lettering was gone, the wall clean. There was no sign of a pressure washer or smell of fresh paint. I stopped…
Captian's Log Smiled 27 Mar 202621 Mar 2026 "Have you stopped to smile today?" asked the spray paint, a black scrawl against a white wall. I smiled before I knew it, half-sorry I did. It was not born…
Captian's Log Stranger Than Fiction 20 Nov 2021 I originally posted this here in reply to a writing prompt. Okay, you may or may not believe this, and I don't blame you if you don't. Let me preface…
Captian's Log Hellboy Review 17 Apr 2019 I saw Hellboy last night. On the higher end of mediocre, it had an engaging style that helped lessen the impact of roughly a metric ton of exposition constantly interrupting…
Captian's Log Quintessence of Dust? 2 May 2017 What is a sunset? Is it only the refraction of a star's light, or is it something more? Is beauty real or only a pattern of electrical impulses sparking in…