Details: Written by: Glenn Heidimann; Published: 13 October 2026; Hits: 5

AN ODD DUCK

Oscar was an odd duck in addition to being a heavy drinker and a frequent dispatcher of ironies. To wit he named his 28-foot sloop The Titanic. As fate or irony would have it Oscar hit an outcropping off Catalina Island, and his Titanic sank as did the unsinkable 1912 Titanic that as you know sank in the North Atlantic on that fateful voyage.

Get A Dog

-I am at my wits end Clara

-What now?

DIRT

Dirt, yes dirt

Most people don’t spend nearly enough time in and around dirt

JUST PUSH THE BUTTON

Have you heard the sales pitch from one of the companies that sell these devices that signal for help?

WHAT A MESS

What is on your mind Hal? Not much bill me either, I just think that it’s all for nought I don’t think we can make any kind of difference I tend to agree we have no power, no agency what can we do? Start a revolution or flee to the Antarctic sounds about right I don’t like cold so the Antarctic is out for me ok, then let’s start a revolution how would we do that? I think we would first have to define the existing problem that shouldn’t be too hard it should not given the cost of almost everything, the political division about nearly every issue, the ai scare or not a scare debate, the war and tariffs and whether the sky is really blue it is a mess, that’s for sure ok, so that’s are start but everybody knows that it’s a mess, its not new news yes, but we need to frame it so that without our plan things would get even worse on all fronts really? And how do we do that? Propaganda, that’s how the masses are changed from their currant belief and values into different ones