Happy Halloween!

Today, some of us have swapped "looks" for the weekend. I have come to associate faces with certain behaviors and styles. So whenever I see a discrepancy because of the switch, it gets me confused for a while. Several of us are dressing up differently on purpose, putting on costumes as part of the Halloween tradition. Costume parties remind me of masquerade balls. What a way to hide behind something, an act. A character in one of the movies I like talked...

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While sorting my mail the other day (the mayor still hasn't approved our bigger mailbox petition), I reread several feedback letters that I received for writing the past GFisms. Here are some of them but the names of the senders have been removed for anonymity. Anyway, you know who you are.


This reminded me that I have already encashed the cheque that was sent to me by one of my readers. He was really generous...

We are all animals and this town is just one big zoo. Sometimes I forget this biological classification but there are times when human behaviors remind me that people do fall under the same Kingdom Animalia together with other living creatures we simply call animals (bio refresher: we're phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order Primates, family Hominidae, genus Homo, species Sapien).

However, this week the zoo that interested me the most is the smaller one where we keep and battle our...

It's another week in GF town.

Town Hall

Once more it's that season when a lot of residents hang out at the Town Hall. The people I often see when I visit include Raiquen, Mrs. K, Ellen, Beardy, Cruella, Justine, Lecter, Jack, Capz, Hon, and newcomers Cornetto and Gravy. Sometimes it gets too crowded that additional private floors are opened to accommodate everyone. That's the official version. The truth is that the private floors are actually meant to exclude rather than...