Some years ago, I tired of the seemingly vacuous sentiment of Thanksgiving — a holiday celebrated in much of the United States by demonstrations of excess. Excessive gorging, drinking, feasting on fattening foods and then, when the coma wears off, stampeding the malls to spend what little you don’t have. So I started to celebrateContinue reading “Happy Snakesgiving!”
Author Archives: Barry O'Keefe
I’ll Always Have Paris
DIPLOMACY I learned a new game at my brothers’ beach retreat this summer. It’s called “Diplomacy.” I think you’ll like it. Here’s how it goes. My nephew, Tom, brought a crate of games with him, but was most keen to play one called “Diplomacy.” The game had won a Nobel Prize, to hear him tellContinue reading “I’ll Always Have Paris”
Babe Owl
I made this for Diana’s roommate who’s (none intended) into owls. There have been some new “Boyds” recently, but I ain’t got a camera. Oh well.
Hat Poem
One of my roomates has taken up knitting. A few weeks ago, I found a tiny hat, just big enough for an orange beside the sink, and so: A fitten mitten for a fist,but little else is it.It looks so warm and comfy though,I wish at I could knit.
Another Cardboard Rhino
I made this rhino a few years ago – around the time of the first cardboard rhino story. I like the exposed ridges above the legs and on the tail.
To: Santa
A little something for the X mas season. “Many gifts.”
Boyds #1 and 2
In the summer of 2K6 I took the bus up to Alexandria to visit Tim. We were talking about funny tag names.“Ok, ok, how about one with a b, an o and a y?”“Boydz” So I had some paper there and I drew a little grumpy bird with a cigar and some scraggly feathers. Wouldn’tContinue reading “Boyds #1 and 2”
The Tribe of the Tomahawk Toot-Toot
Tribeof theTomahawk Toot-Toot(from a scroll found in a bottle on Cape Fear, North Carolina) Along the shores of the barrier islands of North Carolina, in the scrub and swamps of the backwaters of Cape Fear, there dwelled a small band of aboriginals known as The Tribe of the Tomahawk Toot-Toot The tribe was named afterContinue reading “The Tribe of the Tomahawk Toot-Toot”
Lying in Bed by Samir Bakhshi
Lying in Bed by Samir Bakhshi My eyes are shutMy ears are openMy nose is blockedMy mouth has spoken * During finals week this spring my roomate Samir was sick. Early in the morning he rattled this off from under the covers.
Cardboard Rhino 