Author: oysta

  • Five years, a shave

    A limerick to commemorate the five year anniversary of a most harrowing event: Five years past a man upon a block,Did slump yoked to his Mac in a shock.But on the brink of despair,He did slip from that snareThough from his face it did cost him a lock.

  • The Hair Snare

    This one starts with a cold open, one right out of the Vince Gilligan textbook, or maybe one from whoever directed that Firefly episode that opens with Mal sitting on a rock, naked, in the middle of a desert. Except this cold open is set exactly four years ago today, and the man isn’t in…

  • Better off read than dead

    Last year I decided that I should read more. Now by no means have I earned the modifier “prolific” in my reading, but last year I did read significantly more than usual. Here is what I read.