Tag Archives: Earth’s Blood
Water Shortages, Rain Doesn’t Fix It
Water is the single most precious resource on the planet, not oil. A couple of days of rain doesn’t mean there’s water and the global shortages are all gone. Humans tend to be short-sighted like that. Bring on a nice … Continue reading
NAKED FOR NOTORIETY
I’m going to go naked for notoriety! I finally figured out what to do. It was an epiphany immediately after being duct-taped to a sagging lawn chair and forced to watch a ten hour slide show of a multitude of … Continue reading
Water
Water. It’s the single most important resource necessary to life on this planet. It ranks right there with sunlight as the two things that would mark the planet Earth as a lifeless, barren rock if we didn’t have both. Water … Continue reading
Chasing After Stupid
Stupid is what cuts it out there and I suddenly realize I have to go chasing after stupid if I ever hope to realize any substantial success as a writer/author. I used to say that, as a writer, I hoped … Continue reading
Playing With Marbles; A Writer’s Imagination
I still have all my marbles. I know, because they’re in two jars sitting in a box somewhere in what I refer to as my storage room. (Read; a room I should be sleeping in that, instead, houses my ‘stuff’.) … Continue reading
Ethan Holmes, Rambling Man
I was thinking the other day. I do that on occasion. Then I seem to take a few days off. Does an onion cry when you cut it? Does broccoli scream when you put it in the steamer? Are you … Continue reading
Ethan Holmes and The Death of Customer Service
Please press one if you’d like to continue reading this blog. Please press two if you’d like someone to read it to you. Please press three if you forgot why you’re here. Please press four if you are never going … Continue reading
Ethan Holmes, The Paperman and Valentine’s Day
Paperman Valentine’s Day is fast approaching. I’ve always had a problem with a holiday that, thanks to media and advertising, contains strong implications that my love for a person is directly proportional to how much of the following I will … Continue reading
The Tao of Success, Part 2; Stop Saying ‘I Want’
It’s one of the first phrases we ever learn to say. We start saying it almost as soon as we are able to speak anything resembling a language; I want. I want my toy, I want a bottle, I want … Continue reading