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Got the “thanks, but no thanks” letter today concerning the state job I interviewed for twice. I’m a week away from marking six months without full-time employment. You can’t imagine the ways I’d like to thank the prick who fired me so I’d have this “opportunity” in my life.

The date was November 23, 1980. I was all of 14 years old, in the ninth grade, and I’d made a decision that I somehow knew was going to shape the rest of my life. It was a cold day in Enid, Oklahoma, when me and Tim Ogle set out from my house to Holding’s…

This is something I’ve wanted to tackle for a while. But, frankly, I simply don’t have the brain power for it tonight. I promised a thought-provoking essay, however, so I point you to the always wise and entertaining Maurice Broaddus, aka the “Sinister Minister.” He answers the question quite nicely in this little essay. Someday soon…

So, I missed making my “serious” Monday post. I’ll do that later today. The Vikings were beating the Packers, and watching that was more important. Living in the anus of Dallas Cowboy country, I have to relish the few times a year when the Vikes are on the tube. No job news. No news is…

Gayleen: I haven’t heard about the job yet. haha Kim says I was too indecisive in my review of The Devil’s Rejects. Fine. I liked it. In fact, since I keep thinking back on it, I’ve come to the conclusion that I liked it quite a lot. It wasn’t perfect, but it was damn good.…

As the phone rings incessantly and the door fans open and closed with the coming and going of my kids and most of the neighborhood kids, I sit here wishing I could think but instead doing random Google searches. Look what I found. Man, that takes me back. Two of the guys from Oliver Magnum,…

The Movie Of Your Life Is A Black Comedy In your life, things are so twisted that you just have to laugh. You may end up insane, but you’ll have fun on the way to the asylum. Your best movie matches: Being John Malkovich, The Royal Tenenbaums, American Psycho If Your Life Was a Movie,…

There’s a bunch I need to do on my Web site (isn’t there always?), but I made a couple of updates last night. First, because several people find old short stories still available online and e-mail asking for more, I collected links to all my short stories I know of that are still available and…

I now know that I have arrived. Xlibris has taken note of me. Dear Steven, My name is Tracey Rosengrave, Marketing Manager for Xlibris Corporation, a Print-On-Demand Self-Publishing company. We are sending you this email because we have either learned about your passion for writing or we have had the pleasure of coming across some…

Yesterday was quite a day. A second interview with the state agency at 8 a.m., then work at the chamber until noon, then drive to Ponca City for a meeting. Home. Out to eat with the family since Kim was off prior to working seven days straight. Back home … to learn I was mistaken…