Sunday, December 2, 2007

Happy Holidays!

Mike the Obscure is taking a break from blogging until after the new year. He wishes everyone a safe and happy holiday season.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Beaver Town


This is what a nifty little beaver dam in central Pennsylvania looks like before three months of drought and then flash flooding destroy it forever.

Friday, September 7, 2007

My Life





The books I wrote and the one I’m writing now, this place, those two geese, that cat, being there for Mom.

This is my life.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

A Cat’s Life


eat sleep poop pee play, eat sleep poop pee play, eat sleep poop pee play, eat sleep poop pee play, eat sleep poop pee play

Monday, August 13, 2007

NASA Window Dressing

After half a century of sending people into orbit NASA still cons the world into thinking that another “space walk” by astronauts is space exploration.

Friday, July 20, 2007

Untouchables

Dangerous sociopaths who behave badly all their lives and then hide behind their race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender and sexual orientation like cowards when caught.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

A Better World

Life’s biggest challenge is not living your life just to suit yourself but doing something to help make this world a better place for everyone.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Get a Life

The cable news networks and their viewers have confused celebrity gossip, local crime and the marketplace debut of the latest “techno-toys” with actual worldwide news.

Friday, July 6, 2007

Religious Freedom

Religious freedom also means “freedom from religion”. That means not having to be scoffed at by arrogant religious salesmen right at you own front door.

Saturday, June 23, 2007

This Old Goose


Broken-Wing probably tangled with a red fox before I got to know him. I call him Pond Boss. Sometimes he barks just like a dog.

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Lame Riddle

Q. How can you tell a rich hillbilly from a poor one?

A. A rich hillbilly has two cars up on blocks in his front yard.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Point of No Return

Way back when, I learned about the concentration camps during World War II and my views on the world, life and "God" were changed forever.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

This Old Bench

Yours truly made this bench about five years ago and didn’t bother to paint or varnish it. I used scrap lumber, too. Can you tell?

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Going Tubeless

I stopped watching live television in 1995. I figured I’d seen enough lame sitcoms, sleazy dramas, stupid miniseries, weekend teen movies and commercials by then.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

High School Reunion Disclaimer

I have never attended a high school reunion for the plain and simple reason that I have no pleasant memories whatsoever about attending high school.

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Who would have thought?

My March 16th posting about Don Imus was not about his subsequent racist comment that cost him his broadcasting jobs. But I’m glad he’s history.

Sunday, April 1, 2007

Another Goofy Law

Pennsylvania’s new law requiring headlights when using windshield wipers has nothing to do with driver safety. It’s just another way of generating revenue via fines.

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Legal Mail Fraud

Letters in your U.S. mailbox from American companies warning you that your vehicle warranty or Internet domain name has expired. Nothing but cowardly, faceless crooks.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Define “Price Gouging”

Retail gasoline prices in the United States go up just before every major holiday and yet the federal government maintains that price gouging doesn’t exist.

Friday, March 16, 2007

“I’m An Ass in the Morning”

This should be the name of the “Imus in the Morning” radio show. He’s too nasty and shallow for it to be called anything else.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Redneck Vibrator

Looks like a simple pickup truck but once the muffler is FUBAR it’s a masturbation device for rednecks everywhere. Comes in all sizes and colors.

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Chariot of the Antichrist

I can think of 666 reasons for not owning one and global warming is at the top of that list. Then landscape scarring, then noise.

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Executive Eye-Opener

If President Bush moved out of the White House and into a Walter Reed barrack he’d soon understand the grim reality and futility of war.

Friday, March 2, 2007

Pooh on the Pyramid

This has been America’s pagan idol ever since The All-Seeing Eye of God atop a pyramid was added to the back of our One-Dollar Bill.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

World-Wide Spider Web

The Internet is mostly a hideout for creeps, crooks and scoundrels who would be in chains anywhere else. The rest of us are their suckers.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

It’s Only Logical

If the sun is a star then the stars are probably suns.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Miracle Cures

Diseases are cured when it’s no longer profitable to treat them. Patients are cured when their health insurance benefits are exhausted.

Monday, February 12, 2007

Putting Saddam in the Rearview Mirror

Executing this war criminal in the name of justice showed the world that murdering innocent people in the name of God is never acceptable.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

The Dearly Departed

They still live. But not on Earth. Let them rest in peace, wherever they are. As for me, once around is quite enough, thank you.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Pushing the Cartoon Envelope

Everybody was up in arms over Cartoon Network’s Aqua Teen stunt but no one cared that the blue cartoon characters were giving America the finger.