Category Archives: Life is Interesting

Signs can be weird, movies can be weird, the deli-counter at any Martin’s is always weird. Sometimes Life works in mysterious and melancholy ways.

Creating People

Posted on December 31, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

I create people. As an author, I create characters, endow them with a past, present, and future, put them in predicaments and then extricate them. I can make them tall, short, handsome, ugly, and I can make them make you … Continue reading →

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Best Warning Sign Ever

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

Stupid signs are everywhere as I have written about in the past. Here’s one from Walmart that leaves me confused:Should I enter or stand here or find another door? Is this to confuse the people of Walmart who show up … Continue reading →

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The Importance of Saturday Night

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

While recently rummaging through some old files, I came across the ad for various posters that you see below from 1978, that is 39 years ago. These images are just how I remember these stars, though they are certainly not … Continue reading →

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Princess Aloha, the Refugee from Waikiki

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

It’s always fun to read the ads in old newspapers, but one in particular that I came across recently really caught my attention. My friend Pat Wishart invited me to her home this past summer to look at some old … Continue reading →

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Wherever You Want To

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

Today, I am offering at no charge, the greatest name for a restaurant in the history of restaurantery. If you opened a restaurant called, Wherever You Want To, you would have the most popular eatery on earth, because nine times … Continue reading →

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Mom and Me at Old Oriole Park (Indirectly)

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

I want everyone to know that I have been memorialized in what was once the ballpark in which my mom spent a great deal of time when she was a girl. Well, mentioned is perhaps a better word than memorialized, … Continue reading →

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Great Subject Equals Great Art Equals Great Gift

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

Everyone should have a hobby. It not only keeps you off the streets, it makes it easier for the rest of us to get you a gift. For example, you can always give a golfer a dozen more golf balls. … Continue reading →

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Five Laws We Will Have When I Am Emperor

Posted on June 14, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

I have always believed that the degree to which any people are civilized is in direct, inverse proportion to the number of laws it has. Simply put, good people don’t really need many laws to tell them how to behave. … Continue reading →

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I Believe in Miracles and Scooter Gennett

Posted on June 7, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

Scooter Gennett reminded us again last night (that is on June 6th) why baseball is the greatest game in the world, when he became only the 17th player in major league history to hit four home runs in a single … Continue reading →

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The Life of Riley

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Austin Gisriel

Our granddaughter, Riley, celebrates her 5 month birthday tomorrow, and her growth is astounding. In fact, she’s becoming so dexterous that I bought her her first sleeve of little baseballs and I’d like to see her on a throwing program … Continue reading →

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