Tag Archives: lone stranger
The Lone Stranger, the loot, and the codex
This will be my last transmission about this issue, as it is now closed. First off, let’s take a look at the physical property I was looking for, which eluded me, but not the wary eyes and brain of local … Continue reading
Schadenfreude
“YOU’RE the guy that writes that blog?” She said. “Didn’t you say the clue-writer was an idiot?” I didn’t exactly expect to find a reader. Especially one crawling around the same, predictable monolith I was. “Yeah . . . About … Continue reading
Apparently, drinking my coffee out of a SHERLOCK, ceramic pint glass isn’t helping
Stupid clues . . . Abject genericism, plaid inferences, a veritable circa-1970’s television test pattern. Going to my “mind palace” isn’t helping. FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS. And it’s probably within a tenth of a mile from my front door. I just … Continue reading
Today’s clues: now 52 percent more cryptic than yesterday’s
I just don’t know: Enjoy your careful search in a shell A tree is not a birch, It’s location will tell Now, Instead of focusing the search–or narrowing it down to an area I thought sure would have been vetted … Continue reading
Yep. I am as pathetic as the rest
Here’s the problem with thinking you have a cognitive edge on the rest of your neighbors. You don’t. I knew when I got out here, this place was going to be overrun with 300,000 erstwhile Rain Man stunt doubles, all … Continue reading
Maybe I AM the idiot
Thus far, nor reports of the indigent organo-sleuths finding the loot. Maybe the clues ARE some kind of reverse-psychological, rope-a-dope way to play the masses. All I know is this. I’m stuck at work, and can’t flesh out … Continue reading
Working today
Which will give all of the canvassers, lurkers, loiterers, standers, and quasi-homeless-yet-own-an-iphone mountebanks drawing SSI funds a full NINE hours to be running around looking for that loot. Updates on the clues as they come in.
Coming up Monday
I don’t thing I’m ever going to get over the anticipatory coolness of that phrase. Besides, the dullness, and phlegmatic nature of the weekend begs for something of intrigue. Which I intend to do. First of all, I’ll remind you … Continue reading
Rodeo week is almost upon us. Time to go look for some LOOT!
By “us,” I mean a regional thing here. If you’re a reader from, say Serbia (and yes, I do get traffic from there. Thank you, whomever you are), you may not care. Except, you still might, because of the way … Continue reading
