Thanks to Totally Mindy on Kid’s Place live this morning, I have a horrible cyberpunk version of Old Yeller in my head… here’s a snippet of “the scene” in my head, so you can all share in my horror at my own brain. “No pa. He’s my dog. I’ll do it.” Tahmina pulled the old keyboard out from the rack… Read more →
FASH ATTACK! A real life fan fic pastiche.
Once again, a few wonderful people on twitter have inspired me with insanity. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. Content warning, violence, blood, death. Bobby felt the warmth on his cheek before he heard the screams. Almost in slow motion, he turned to his partner as his hand came up to feel the warm, wet spot that had… Read more →
Poetry – Song: Phantom Limbs . A tribute to Neil Peart and Rush, and to lost friends.
I’ve been thinking about death and loss lately. Specifically, I was thinking about Neil Peart. And how his friends and bandmates must feel. Especially Geddy. His voice has sung, for decades, words put there by Neil. How must that feel? To have a portion of your voice… gone? And I can kind of understand. I’m missing a piece of my… Read more →
The man in the mirror…
Content warning : physical dysphoria About two years ago, I grew a beard. My wife asked me too! And I’ll humor her just about anything she asks, at least once. I was expecting a short experiment. I had grown a beard about 15 years ago, or at least, tried. I tried to do a goatee, and by the time it… Read more →
Alexander Hollins on Medium
For those of you who like using Medium, and want to support me there, I have started copying my different posts here over to Medium, and will post new items in both places. I have a Table Of Contents set up on a public story at https://medium.com/@theleakingpen_95905/table-of-contents-alexander-hollins-f93586a71e3d Read more →
Gonna be a bad shift, My handle time is gonna fall, :Song parody
Wrote a quick song parody of William Bell’s immortal Born Under a Bad Sign. For all the call center folk! Its gonna be a bad shift My handle time is gonna fall If it wasn’t for dumb people, you know I wouldn’t get a single call. Hard boots and troubleshooting to the end Gotta be polite hope they rate me… Read more →
Peanut Butter Jelly Time! : Workplace memories
I was reminded today of one of the more interesting HR experiences I’ve had. At least, of the ones that I can actually talk about at work without getting sent to HR again… I was working at a call center that had a decent kitchen in the breakroom. Actual fridges, several toasters, an electric kettle. I had settled into a… Read more →
Twitter feeds…
Started in my head by @emccoy_writer on twitter, saying that twitter feeds on typos. “Jak by numble, kack be qick, jacj jump iver teh candelstick.” Jack hummed to himself, swaying in the glow of monitors. “Jack, buddy? You okay down there?” Benny looked down into the lowered floor of the NOC from the raised walkway surrounding it, server trees blinking… Read more →
Telepathillogical, or Did You Hear What They Said About Our Marlene’s Telepathy? And who Grandma left the good china to?
As so often happens, a story idea gets into my head from an odd source. An online discussion of the Romance Genre, and what it means to be Romance, being talked about by Ursula Vernon ( @ursulav on Twitter) morphed into her talking about the weird way that Science Fiction and Fantasy get mixed and matched based on odd qualities.… Read more →
Wordy wordy words
So, i was introduced this morning to the song Diggy Diggy Hole, through this metal video My mind of course goes straight to parody Wordy Wordy Words. Siblings of the book rejoice Scribe, scribe, scribe with me Raise your pen and choose your voice! Write, write, write with me Down and down into the page Who knows what phrases we’ll… Read more →