As mentioned earlier, George Packard, retired schoolteacher, needed to visualize things in order to apprehend them – a crippling limitation when trying to understand the invisible. For George Packard knew (and don’t ask how he knew, it’s a long story) that the invisible underlies the visible. After all, the law of gravitation is nothing you can see. Kant’s a priori fundamentals were just that: a … Continue reading George Packard and the Invisible
Chapter II George Packard, retired schoolteacher, had been born and raised in the American tradition, but had long since disentangled or disengaged himself from all the standard conventions that most people seemed compelled to obey. Born in Chicago to a well-to-do, but very dysfunctional/alcoholic family, he had come out to California forty years earlier. He had never married. Packard was what used to be called … Continue reading The George Packard Series
George Packard, retired schoolteacher, took a stroll down Wilshire Blvd. He’d walked this stretch of Wilshire Blvd. countless times before. They called it the Miracle Mile area, a euphemism, a PR ploy. Whatever. George Packard just knew that he liked to walk down Wilshire. It was the most city-like of all LA’s streets. George Packard prided himself on his familiarity with the streets and neighborhoods … Continue reading George Packard on Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
What??? Is this another one of those As I sat on the bus things? Oh, no. As I sat on the bus, I thought about what I would write for this Bumbastories blog. After all, I hadn’t posted anything in two weeks. And wasn’t this supposed to be the Everydayanotherstory blog? I had to think of something. Something to write. Hey, I said to myself, … Continue reading As I Sat On the Bus
George Packard labored on his bicycle up the hill at Century City. It was a hard life, this reporter’s life, this life of a roving reporter. What with the traffic, riding a bicycle wasn’t what it used to be. All the same, George liked to do his roving on bicycle. George waxed nostalgic as he remembered that five or maybe ten years ago you could … Continue reading George Packard and the Scoop
George Packard, who as roving reporter sometimes roves as far as five km from his apartment, was roving in the city of Beverly Hills the other day and sent in the following update on the famed Beverly Hills Post Office building and the just completed (or nearly-completed, it’s hard to tell) Beverly Hills Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Recently opened to view after a long period … Continue reading George Packard, Roving Reporter, Covers the Beverly Hills Beat
George Packard had drawn the Bumbastories AISOTB assignment this week. George Packard, retired schoolteacher and roving reporter for the Bumbastories Blog roved extensively and widely within a three mile radius of his Los Angeles apartment. As George was sitting on the bus he thought about the nature of awareness. George asked what the difference was between awareness and consciousness. George had perused the Phantom’s ruminations on this … Continue reading AISOTB#31 Beverly Hills Expose
Yes brave bloggers and other miscreants, welcome to this week’s As I Sat On the Bus Invitational. All are invited of course. However, the sole condition (call it a prompt) is to begin the shpiel with As I Sat On the Bus or something close to it. Anything approximating a municipal bus somewhere in the text – and that includes all forms of mass transportation … Continue reading As I Sat On the Bus (#22)
This week Bumba is exercising some artistic freedom with the As I Sat On The Bus Invitational. He is exchanging the bus for a bicycle, and hopes that no one has any serious objections. Please submit your own As I Sat On The Bus stories and photos, poems and songs in the comments section. Good luck and have a pleasant ride and a good week! … Continue reading The As I Sat On The Bus Invitational #7
OK. OK. Just to show you how simple it is to start a short piece with “As I sat on the bus….” here’s one by our friend George Packard. (Bumba and myself sometimes call on George Packard to help us out with these stories) George Packard, retired schoolteacher, sat on the bus. George Packard was headed to the library where perhaps he would scribble some … Continue reading An ‘As George Packard Sat On The Bus’ Story
