I am a big fan of irony, as a literary device. I enjoy its use by writers and I employ it liberally myself virtually every,…
Posts published by “Flynn Washburne”
Writing is hard; make no mistake about that. Any images you may hold in your mind of effete, indolent idlers casually pecking out romantic sagas…
Since beginning this prison term back in 2011, I have been about 99% convinced that I'd never see its end, that sometime over its interminable…
If you were to construct a graph illustrating my wedding attendance over the course of my life, and I can't think of any reason why…
As a resident of the hoosegow (word nerd alert: from the Spanish juzgado, court), I've been doing a lot of things I normally wouldn't for…
I'm proud to say that I'm the one who gave Crystal Billy his nickname. Before I came along, he was just a Bill with a…
I am at heart a homebody, and never more content than when lolling around the domicile with a cool and refreshing tipple in the company…
Advertising has come a long way since the days when they'd just brashly trumpet the superiority of the product in a general way, saying things…
It was a rough week. On Saturday I was arrested on a simple possesh, on Tuesday I Oscar Robertson'ed, on Wednesday I was again slapped…
There have been more than a few paragraphs in this organ devoted to tales of my criminal ineptitude, and that phrase can be interpreted both…
The Chief made mention of the Fort Bragg Harbor in the Off the Record section recently, comparing it favorably to the Cannery Row section of…