am finally drawing near to the end of the tedious divorce process. And just imagine, I’m getting the easiest kind of divorce possible, and it’s still been a tedious pain in my ass. Seriously, they need to do something to condense this process.
     Off to your right, you’ll see the last of MrJames’ Carnival posters, [...]

     rJames has blessed us with some Carnival art, made at Despair.com. Since I’ve been busily writing and rendered otherwise brain dead by a sucky little spring cold, I figured I’d share MrJames’ pictures instead of a making real post. And, they’re worth sharing. I was particularly pleased with the Bloody Mary and Violent Clay [...]

     ednesday, I got up at the gawdawful early hour of 6:30 am to join VC and Missa in delivering the Squatch to MrJames for a week-long visit. We drove him down to Detroit to the airport and dropped him off to his plane. We skipped taking I-75 due to the odious levels of construction and [...]

     other’s Day is the busiest day of the year in the restaurant industry. The customers come in hordes and beat us all day. It’s awful. I got in yesterday at three, to discover a staff-full of bedraggled, tired, crabby people, blank and wide-eyed with the horror of the business, the restaurant trashed, everything empty and [...]

      went to the local Salvation Army store the other day with VC and Missa, and found a couch. (Love seat, actually, but it’s a bitty apartment, so it works.) I was tickled. I got it for $25, and it’s actually a decent couch. You already know what it looks like — it’s that [...]

     es, it’s been quite quiet around here. Monday and Tuesday were busy days, and Wednesday and Thursday morning were full of errands, and on Thursday evening, for lack of a better term, I had a burst of divine inspiration concerning my story.
     It was actually the moment I’d been impatiently waiting for. I had a handful [...]

     o, I’m puttering about Casa del Java today, doing my chores and such, bopping along to music and playing with the dog, just generally having a good day. In the back of my head, I’m kicking around the plot of a short story I’m putting together, and I’m thinking, okay, so the character is fortyish [...]

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     This three hundred and fifty pound woman shows up at a run-down circus, looking for a job as a flying trapeze artist. The incredulous ringmaster gives her an audition, and is so impressed he tells her she’s hired. There’s one condition: she goes on last. On opening night, the other acts are [...]

     ig announcement! Squatch has his album on line for your listening pleasure! Go and give it a listen!
     Squatch is a occasional contributer here at the Coffee House, and he’s been working on his album for over a year now. He just got a MySpace page set up where you can go give it a listen. [...]

     irst, let there be a brief story:
     Upon moving into my own apartment, I discovered that I was suddenly lacking in a multitude of necessary items, one of which being a microwave. I remedied this lack by purchasing the floor model of a very cheap microwave at the local Wal-Mart. Predictably, it did not work. Since [...]