The Lost Sierras Drive.

I missed last year’s drive, but headed out early for this one, meeting at the Rocktane Gas Station/Smokeshop/Lesser Den of Iniquity at the Hard Rock casino in scenic Wheatland, redeemed becuase you could pay for your purchases, rather than spin a wheel, pull a slot handle or otherwise make the mundane a game of chance. …

Doggerel.

Poetry. A story, boiled to its essence, the vapor of feelings, an attempt to write down what a sunbeam casting through dust looks like and then describing your emotions seeing the cat or dog slumbering in the warmth, fuzzy little eyelids closed to the light, time stopping. Then there’s doggerel. Similar to the nonsense posted …

The Department Of Past Issues

Welcome to The Department Of Past Issues. I started this because it combines both my love for writing and my affinity for automotive literature, primarily past issues of “Buff Books,” the magazines that were so very popular in the twentieth century, the means by which car news and culture was transmitted. Not instantaneously, like today, …