Author: Uncle Josh

Uncle Josh on the Last Leg

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This week we drove home from our vacation. Monday morning we went north to a Getaway near Mt. Vernon for two nights, one of which was more eventful than I would have liked. On Wednesday we drove to Seattle for two more nights, which had its own adventures. Today we drove home. I am also …

Uncle Josh on Vinyl

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This past weekend Stephanie and I went to the storage room and grabbed 5 boxes worth of stuff, including the two boxes full of records that have been boxed up since 2021, and maybe even earlier. I have a old stereo system with a phonograph that I got for my 13th birthday, so the thing …

Uncle Josh on Fucking Up

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This week, and part of last week, and the week before, seem to be a deluge of fuck-ups. Not current fuck-ups, either, but things I fucked up weeks ago that nobody noticed until this week. It’s a haunting of past mistakes. Many of them are oversights and there are quite a few false memories involved …

Uncle Josh on Uncle Josh

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One of the lies I tell myself regularly is that I’m a writer. Only I haven’t written fiction in months, and I haven’t edited any of the work I have written, and I haven’t submitted anything for a long time, either. So can I call myself a writer anymore? I have several non-personal writing assignments. …

Uncle Josh Checks In on the Multiverse

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Multiverses are the THING these days. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has already started exploring theirs, Marvel Comics has been doing it for years (see Cable/Nate Grey/Nathan Summers/Stryfe/Starglint), DC has done it informally and might be doing something in their TV show (I read on the geekfeeds that they got Michael Keaton[1]the best Batman to rubber …