Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax
From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss
Month: January 2004
Howard and Judy and Laura
Posted on January 25, 2004 in Campaign 2004
If you want a particular woman in the White House, you should support her for president.
Escondido
Posted on January 25, 2004 in Travels - So Cal
Escondido is a sad town of white houses near its central city.
Weekend Sojourn
Posted on January 22, 2004 in Site News
Lynn and I are off to the Lawrence Welk Resort in Escondido where my aunt has given us permission to use her timeshare.
Mandible Computer Tomography
Posted on January 22, 2004 in Dentition
A short tech who wore a loose Hawaiian shirt escorted me into the room where they kept the magic donut.
Winter Closure Continues at Whiting Ranch
Posted on January 22, 2004 in Mountain Lions Nature Neighborhood The Orange
Yellow police tape and red signs remain looped around the area following this month’s earlier mountain lion attack. I suspect that bikers are ignoring the signs.
Money 3
Posted on January 21, 2004 in Consuming Prose Arcana Writing Exercises
The shelves were both empty and full. A mustiness that spoke of dead books written in dead languages, cereal that had been on the shelf too long, and the garage corners piled with old clothes pushed into my nostrils.
An Early Foehn
Posted on January 21, 2004 in Global Warming Weather
The wind howls and the trees shake their fists at it while it passes.
The Klansman Gravity Problem
Posted on January 21, 2004 in Journalists & Pundits Reading
They can type, they can write a snazzy opening paragraph, they can look good for the camera, but God help us: they can’t think!
The Ultimate Roach-Proofing
Posted on January 20, 2004 in Roach-B-Gone
We have pulled out the castration knife and are prepared to turn each and every one of you piglets into a hog.
The First Liberals
Posted on January 20, 2004 in Liberals & Progressives Reading Words
This bizarre history helps to explain the strange events of the Twentieth and early Twenty First centuries.
The Sound and the Sense
Posted on January 20, 2004 in Possessions Routine
When the machine shut down at noon, the noises of the world opened to my ears like a book to my eyes.
Dream
Posted on January 20, 2004 in Dreams
I found myself dreaming that I either owned or played a key part in an organization which trapped and enslaved women. The idea was so horrific to me that I woke myself up and turned over to allow the blood to pool on the right side of the brain.
I had a more satisfying dream after I did that. I was working in a half way house giving encouragement to an agoraphobic murderer. He knew that he hated violence but he was afraid to go out onto the streets of the city. I left because a friend of mine had been captured by an evil god who lived in the subway system. To save her, I had to defeat four sets of monsters: some gigantic bipedal pink rhino-like form and its minions, a set of evil witches, a guy who kept promising me that he had something really scarey he was working on in a back area, and various zombies in the employ of the god itself. The first god (who I never saw) was deposed by a second god who looked like a cross between a hornless manta ray and a raft of worms. I used my mind to blast it off the top of its ziggurat. The zombies came back to life and thanked me. Everyone went out into the streets of the city which had been empty until I defeated the evil one.
