woody's world

Matthew 7: 1-5 (KJV) (Thanks Austin) Judging in the jurisprudence sense is the issue here. But, if you do presume to Judge, you better be p...

Just got back from a great vacation in Oregon, and a few tales are coming from there. Here is one. We were drinking a nice beer and listeni...

I am the voice of Fire. I tell this tale because it is time. In the early days, men huddled cold and frightened in the dark. One day I offe...

I think I am probably insane sometimes. The following account is true as best I can remember. I believe that I am a direct descendant from ...

In 1989 Sal and I bought our first new car: Ford Bronco II. In addition to other considerations we wanted an American made auto. The dealer ...

A hiatus in essays. I decided that I would wait until something good came along before writing again. Things in the world are so screwed up...

I just read a NY Times Op-ed piece on Global Weirding. (Thanks Jerry for the tip). I gotta say it really pissed me off. Not the article itse...

Lindsey Jacobellis. The press says, “The 2010 Games gave Jacobellis an opportunity for redemption, and while NBC didn’t climb aboard her ba...

Elsewhere I have mentioned eating strange things in Australia. Witchetty grubs (offered but declined) and ant bums are probably the strange...

For as long as I could hold a pole, I fished. Night fishing in the Long Island Sound yielded blowfish, porgies an occasional small shark and...