Category Archives: myth

From Here To Timbucktu

When I was a child of the 50s in Maine, Timbukto symbolized the most remote destination on this Earth, although Bob Hope and Bing Crosby never made a ‘road movie’ to there. One day during geography class my teacher at Pine Grove Primary School in Falmouth Foresides traced her finger across the world map to […]

Da Friggin’ Quincy Quarries

On August 28, 1994 three teenagers climbed up to the Quincy Quarries. Their death-defying leap into Swingles Quarry was followed by low-drive from Rooftop. On August 28, 1994 three teenagers climbed up to the Quincy Quarries. How high was from the Rail to the water? 120 feet? We’ll never know. The Quincy Quarries were buried […]

THE CLOSET OF LOST THINGS by Peter Nolan Smith

The Nuns of Our Lady of the Foothills taught their students math, English, religion, history, geography, and a scattering of other basic subjects. Their educational technique depended heavily on harsh discipline. Left-handers were deemed possible satanists. The nun expected everyone to be right-handed. Any laggers were beaten into submission and laziness on small ts earned […]

The Wine Pissing Son Of Elohim

More than two thousand years ago Mary age 12-14 declared to her sterile husband that she had been impregnated by Elohim, the mythical God of the Hebrews. Joseph thought it was bullshit until Jesus pissed wine. Then everyone loved him like Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.

Virgin Birth Aftermath

The New Testament has honored the mystery of the virginity of Jesus’ mother and the Catholic Church has designated August 8 on the ecclesiastical calender as the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, however that date only allowed for four months until the Messiah’s birth in December. I personally long favored late-March as the night on […]