Thursday, June 12, 2025
Typographic Landscape
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Hospital Concert
While standing on the patient’s bed and watching TV, the musician stumbled backwards and fell backwards, crushing an acoustic guitar.
Monday, June 2, 2025
Park Contractor
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Tummy Thunder
There’s a rumbling outside and in my stomach; probably from the undercooked potatoes in the curry.
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Airsoft Kool-Aid
Friday, May 23, 2025
Field Trip
Escorting children off the school bus at the Natural History museum, Steve finds a roll of pennies.
Opening the roll, he finds a 1944 cent with the Lincoln Memorial reverse, and a 1924 Barber dime, both coins literal one of a kind unique impossibilities.
Thursday, May 22, 2025
E3 2049
The Electronic Expo revives in the old Towne East mall in Wichita, Kansas. Each former commercial store is a cavernous showroom dedicated to a single arcade game.
As one of the first attendees, Steve sprints down a second floor walkway, past a Spencer’s Gifts filled with dozens of Star Wars arcade machines.
Next door, a B. Dalton bookstore shows rows and rows of classic Asteroids cabinets.
The upper floor of JCPenneys displays nothing but Primal Rage machines: hallways filled with upright cabinets, bright white showcase 33” screens, and a converted Jurassic Park cockpit.
Spotlighted at the front of the store is a unique prototype machine seemingly carved out of a model volcano, with control panels placed close to the floor, forcing players to sit cross-legged or kneel in a sandy compartment to play. Somehow there are four of these compartments around the base of the volcano, with caves cut into the slope where 25” monitors are mounted.
Dominating the peak and vent of the volcano is a rotating holographic projection cube that shows off the fighting game action. Monolithic Stonehenge pillars contain stacks of subwoofer and speakers, rattling spectators skulls with each prehistoric punch.
Monday, May 19, 2025
Stabbity Rainbow
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Friday, May 16, 2025
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Own A Subway
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Cool Beach Vacation
Monday, May 12, 2025
Forgotten Memories
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Intergame Transfer
I lassoed a Dark Red Hereford in Activision’s Stampede, and fixed a saddle on its back.
I mounted and rode the calf, leaping out of the CRT, IRL.
Then we jumped into my laptop and explored our new Minecraft world.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Fall Harvest Decor
Eggs and sausage fry in oil in a concrete basin.
I pass by several times (with shoes and bare feet) through the food court, and up and down staircases, among the fall harvest decorations.
On the third time passing, I pick up someone’s discarded sandal and hang it on a hat rack.
Later, creeping slowly with headlights off as partygoers return home.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Paintball Tactics
Sunday, May 4, 2025
The Great Spreadsheet War
Friday, May 2, 2025
Prototype Build Quote
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Falling With Style
Playing with the reduced effects of gravity at the university’s new science research center construction site.
Leaping and soaring high above the steel beam structure.
Floating softly and controllably back to the ground.
Heading to the showers where janitorial staff host an interview with a new pest control company.
There’s cake.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Underground Fried Rice
Carved into the foot of a mountain, this restaurant features 999 varieties of fried rice including: chicken fried rice, beef fried rice, pork fried rice, shrimp fried rice, vegetable fried rice, honey fried rice, miso fried rice, shoyu fried rice, duck fried rice, mushroom fried rice, pineapple fried rice, egg fried rice, lentil fried rice, birria fried rice, lamb fried rice, goat fried rice, fish fried rice, shadow fried rice, rainbow fried rice, potato fried rice, steak fried rice, tofu fried rice, peanut butter fried rice, butter fried rice, seaweed fried rice, cranberry fried rice, chickpea fried rice...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Popper Parkour
Thousands of makeshift jumbo toilet paper poppers adorn the ceilings of a three story townhouse with furniture packed into every room.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Egg Water
At the indoor community pool, a bucket of hard boiled eggs is dumped into the water.
AH grabs one and eats it while, with the shell on, while I stuff my sweatpants pockets.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Strawberry Bavarian
Some remember today as the day in 1806 when Bavaria declared itself a sovereign nation.
But I will remember it as the day my brother and I rode bikes and slurped strawberry ICEEs.
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Monster Truck Art Show
At Mr. S’s free annual “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” monster truck themed art gallery, several contestants are turned away for being too ‘pushy’ in the registration line.
Each of these contestants was unique, exhibiting some uncommon or rare physical disability: dwarfism, albinism, muscular dystrophy, ataxia, alopecia, and many with one or more missing limbs.
These contestants rejoined the registration line and were eventually admitted to join the parade of trucks roaring around the obstacle course while displaying a wide variety of art projects in oil and watercolor paint, ink and pencil, woodcut prints and etchings, charcoal and crayon resist.
Friday, April 18, 2025
It Swindy
Thought sand feeling smash together.
Nextdoor, the Netflix Airlines travel agency closes early.
Swinging Venetian blinds indicate an open window.
A yellow gumball gacha machine bursts open; its contents swirl around the empty office.
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Bonus! Free DS!
I forgot I left my laptop and backpack in an outdoor patio of a BBQ restaurant.
When I returned, everything had been neatly returned to my backpack, including someone’s Nintendo DS I didn’t recognize (mine is red).
I spent the rest of the dream searching for the owner of the DS - someone who named their Animal Crossing character, Kira.