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Michael Beyer
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Retired teacher, novelist, nudist, goofball, and cartoonist
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A $3.00 Treasure Trove
If you cruise the bargain sections in an old used book store like Half-Price Books, eventually you are going to find something priceless.  This book I am showing you is that very thing for me. It w…
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December 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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December 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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That Which is Beautiful
In 1945, the physicist beheld Trinity. Would it eat the world that day? Would it stop the Rising Sun and end the World’s strife? But it was magnificent, horrifying, and in a terrible way&#823…
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December 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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“It’s a Hard-Knock Life… for Us”
Yes, this is another in a series of reviews from the Uncritical Critic where I gush endlessly and almost mindlessly about movies, TV, books, and other sorts of stories that I love.  And just l…
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December 4, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Using AI for Art
I do use AI tools for making art. Look at the elf above. You can see how my arthritis and poor eyesight have affected my work. The eyes no longer line up like they did in the pencil copy. And the n…
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December 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Simple Christmas Gifs
No, that is not a typo.  I only meant “gifts” in pun form.  Sometimes you don’t feel much like talking and, after all, the “picture can be worth a thousand words&#…
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December 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Sugar-Free Johnny
He was one of my all-time favorite students. I know I say that about an awful lot of kids. I can’t help it. Once you get to know them well enough to teach them anything, you tend to be hooked…
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November 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Islands of Identity
Who am I? Why do I do the things that I do? No man is an island.  John Donne the English poet stated that.  And Ernest Hemingway quoted it… and wove it into his stories as a major t…
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November 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Contradictions
You know what a contradiction is, don’t you? It is whatever comes out of your wife’s mouth whenever you make a statement asserting that whatever you said is factually true. She will pro…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Celebration, Old Art Revisited
These are some of my favorite drawings from the past. You may have noticed that my blog is about surrealist art, fantasy fiction for young adults, and a somewhat strange idea of what humor is all a…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Why I Must Be a Spiritual Nudist
This is actually a repost of an older essay since I am ill again and fighting to think in between coughing fits. Where this says I have only been naked once at the nudist park, that is no longer tr…
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November 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Just Because I Like That Picture
It’s true. You have seen these multiple times before. They are some of my favorite drawings , paintings, and pictures. You may not agree that these are my best work. That isn’t why I in…
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November 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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In the Outhouse
In the Outhouse (a poem by a terrible poet) So, here I sit for a while to ponder, While I’m taking care of needs down yonder. I read the paper’s news-less ruses. And think that here, at…
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November 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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The Big Questions
I have now embarked on my seventieth year of life. I have had a thirty-one-year career as a public school teacher. I have been married for thirty years. I have three grown children. I wrote and pub…
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November 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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What Are You Reading, Mickey?
Well, I have a thing for collecting old books. This one is 100 years old. It is a modern edition, though, re-published in 2003. Here’s my Goodreads review; This book is an ancient treasure in…
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November 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Blogging Advice
The only advice I am actually qualified to give here is… don’t take any blogging advice from me as worth more than diddly-squoot. Life is like moose bowling because… In order to k…
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November 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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69… Begin the Climb
It is not the final destination. It is the possibility inherent in the joy of the journey. I was born in 1456, 569 years ago. Some may think a life that long is too long. Some few may think even th…
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November 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Hidden Kingdom (Chapter 1 Complete)
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November 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Winsor McCay
One work of comic strip art stands alone as having earned the artist, Winsor McCay, a full-fledged exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.  Little Nemo in Slumberland is…
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November 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Why I am full of Art
I started drawing with crayons and pencils sometime before I was five. I started telling stories around age seven and thoroughly scared my sisters and girl cousins. I became an exiled alien living …
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November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Reboot as Needed
So, my new life in Iowa is going slowly. Unable to drive a car. Unable to stay in writer mode for more than a few minutes at a time. I am basically just getting by. Paying bills on time. Staying al…
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November 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Giving and Taking Stupid Advice
Let’s begin with some stupid advice. I don’t have time to write a lot today because the Princess is ill and must go see the doctor in Plano.  So the advice is; Set aside time for writin…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Dilsey Murphy in Living Color
I finished the art project.  Here is Dilsey Murphy as she looked in 1990 while wearing her dad’s old Carl Eller Minnesota Vikings jersey from the 70’s.  I wasn’t sure I could fini…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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The Newest Paper Doll
It has been a while since I last made a new paper doll. But I am trying like heck to get back into the swing of the artsy-fartsy things I used to do: drawing, writing stories, crafting novels, coll…
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November 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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I Love to Laugh
“Mickey, why can’t you be more serious, the way smart people are?” “Well, now, my dear, I think I take humor very seriously.” “How can you say that?  You ne…
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November 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM