Tempest Penumbra

Yesterday I was standing in my yard and found an empty Marlboro cigarette pack that looked like it had been chewed in half. It’s not really uncommon to find random trash in my yard but I can usually figure up a possible origin of said trash. I smoke but, I don’t smoke Marlboro. My nearest neighbor doesn’t smoke, and my next nearest neighbors are a couple of hundred feet away. It wouldn’t be outside of the range of possibilities for one of my cats to chew it in half. One of them, in particular, I’m sure would have hunted it, he’s Just creative like that. What it reminded me of was a time when I was a child that I went outside to play, I was five I think, and as I played in the yard I started to find headless kittens and their heads as well. Quite gruesome I guess for a five year old. I went to tell my mother and she cleaned them up. She told me later that someone had done it to revile her because they thought she was a witch.  I’ve heard of things where in medieval times people woul...

The weight of a crap ton and a regular ton is so insignificant that there is literally, with only the slightest inclination to figurative, no difference at all. The only difference between a crap ton and a ton of anything else is the measure of ridiculous proportions of how much would be needed in logical quantities of a particular item. For instance, a ton of scrap metal in the back of a truck would be considered reasonable so it would be called “a ton of scrap metal.” On the other hand, a ton of light bulbs would be disproportionate to the needs of anyone who would use light bulbs so it would be safe to say that if you had a ton of light bulbs it wouldn’t be outside the range of reasonable speech to say, “a crap ton of light bulbs.” Really, it doesn’t have to even weigh the equivalent of a ton it just has to be more of something than reasonably needed by any amount of persons, places or things,  at any given time. Salutation Pending Johnny R Draper 

I have found that it is a universal concept that in the late of the evening the world winds down and goes to sleep. This is true even for people that work the overnight shifts of the world. During the day shifts the world is alive and awake and that wakefulness is shared with the shift scheduled need of the world but, it is left to the overnight shift to replenish that wakefulness while they themselves are not awake. Though they are awake, they sleep in the sense that they are removed from the hustle and bustle of the needs of the waking world who dreams for those invisible servitors of the night, cloaked in shadow, and rise to find the renewed world that has been left for them. Salutation Pending Johnny R Draper