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Latest blog posts from The Ominous Comma

Surfacing At Last
Hello everyone, this is Brent and I will be your author today. I know it’s been a long time since I have posted here, but I did promise to take a break after all, and what kind of role model would I be to the next generation of impressionable young bloggers if I lied to my entire readership in...
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Published 3 days ago

Giving Notice
Do you know what I miss? I miss not blogging. What I mean by that is that I miss the sense of possibility and expectancy and wonder that I felt when I was first studying up on blogging, back before I launched the Ominous Comma. In those days I was reading lots of books on writing, and lots of...
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Published 4 months ago

Hey Now, Hey Now - Let’s Scream It’s Over
TobboganSeach - Part 3 The story so far: Led astray by the cute and convincing Comma Girl, I hauled my family cross country in a bold humanitarian effort to find Doctor Harold Toboggans.1 The Charming Culprit After a long journey and a diligent search, I must have been ready to call off the...
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Published 4 months ago

Like An Origami Roadmap - The Story Continues To Unfold
TobogganSearch recounted - Part 2 Despite serious misgivings, I was persuaded by my youngest child to travel to Nevada in search of Doctor Harold Toboggans. It was a long and painful ordeal, far in excess of anything Dr. T could reasonably expect from anyone who had ever met him. After an...
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Published 4 months ago

Now The Tale Can Be Told
In the face of suffering, hardships, and countless adversities the Comma clan and myself, its road-weary patriarch, have returned at last from the ill-fated TobogganSearch, to the malarial cheer of our Memphis headquarters. The Ominous Comma’s Memphis Headquarters The trauma of our ordeal has...
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Published 4 months ago

Stranded In Vegas
The Quest for Toboggans has taken a slight, twenty-four hour and counting, hiatus as the intrepid Comma Clan find themselves indefinitely embedded within the Las Vegas Airport Although the structure itself looks as if it escaped from a science fiction adventure, the experience so far seems to...
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Published 4 months ago

I’m Not A Guest Blogger But I Play One On TV
We interrupt your normally scheduled guest blogging adventure to bring you this Toboggans Search Update, somewhat live from the neon-illuminated wasteland of Northern Nevada. The road to Toboggans1 has been a twisted and tangled one, fraught with peril and roadside urination. Danger has been my...
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Published 4 months ago

Due Process
Last week Brent asked me to be a guest blogger while he was on vacation. Actually it was more like begging and I hate to see a grown man grovel so I said yes. I’m kidding, he paid me. Kidding again, he didn’t ask. I hacked his domain and hijacked today’s post spot because that is how I...
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Published 4 months ago

Sanity - Too Good to Last
If you have ever made a positive change in your lifestyle you know how good it feels. It doesn’t matter if you’ve lost weight, quit smoking, or ejected a pompous windbag from your website, there is a certain euphoria that comes from living a better life. Over the last couple months I...
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Published 5 months ago

Droll Humor?
Recently I was accused of being droll. Not this blog mind you, or even the various characters and personas I have populated it with, but me, my very own personal self. Droll. If there is anything that gets my dander up and marching around,1 it’s being labeled with terms so offensive, so...
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Published 5 months ago