Community Bulletin – When Cleverness Fails

Welcome to your Community Bulletin for the week of August 6th. Just got back from the regional medical center where everyone is currently being discharged, or are in improving condition. So, all’s well that ends well. I’d like to say that we learned a lesson from this, though really, it just reinforced the old Song […]

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Secret Midnight Fishing Raid

Secret reminder for those at the secret meeting at the secret diner: Tonight’s fishing expedition is scheduled to start around 3:00 AM. All good and all bad things start or end at 3:00 AM. Bring your poles and at least 100lb test. Lures will be provided. Not-Art will be meeting with everyone at the agreed […]

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Well wishes from Prague

“We miss Oregon. We miss Leverite. We miss the Neighbors. Heck, we even miss having to run outside at two in the morning to lockup the trashcans as raccoons swept through town. But hearing Rumplestiltzkat is on the loose, we feel much safer being on the other side of the planet about now, especially considering […]

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The Cat

Well, some folks did not heed our warnings. Some did. Female cats were glued to windows and doors, yowling all night long to be let out. Toms stayed on laps, grooming themselves with a detached coolness, yet every little noise from beyond the walls startled them to alertness. In the dark, a sinister shadow passed […]

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That Darned Cat

Just a heads up. Anyone living in town that was at the disastrous Amundsen’s Inaugural Thanksgiving Bash is on notice. Rumplestiltzkat has escaped. That’s right. Everyone’s most loathed Demon-in-a-Fur-Coat stalks the streets, seeking vengeance on the living and the dead alike. I never believed in Hell until I met this cat, at which point I […]

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Surrounded by Polyglots

Everyone was a little surprised this afternoon to see a shuttle bus loaded with foreign tourists roll up to the Natural History Museum. With a few calls, the museum director was able to round up five people that spoke two other languages each. That is eleven languages in all! It’s is sometimes surprising to consider […]

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Small-Town American Graffiti

As summer drags on, every small town confronts the most critical threat to peace and quiet: bored teenagers. However, between the badgers and that game, things have been pretty low key. Unfortunately, it seems that some of the kids from the next town over have decided a little cross-town rivalry is in order, and have […]

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