Category Archives: The Site

Now comes September 2020

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Steve

This is always an ambivalent month. When you’re a kid it sucks because Summer Vacation is over and you need to return to prison which is how you feel with grade school and to some extent, high school. Meanwhile, you … Continue reading →

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Fifteen years of Picayune in this format!

Posted on July 3, 2020 by Steve

Where are now? Let’s see three Mac Minis and a virtualized server for hosting and two different Weblog solutions. I’ve lost track how long I’ve been with WordPress but when I made the belated jump to the Weblog format, it … Continue reading →

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Half way through 2020!

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Steve

To cheer us all up, I decided make my header one of the best movies ever made in the Eighties. Hell, it’s so perfect, I can’t think of a single complaint about it. On July 3, 1985, Back to the … Continue reading →

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The “new normal” June 2020

Posted on June 23, 2020 by Steve

Thanks to a cartoon from The New Yorker, this might be the solution to get me back into the groove of writing for Picayune since Starbucks are not ready.

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The month’s header

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Steve

Twenty-five years ago, my first great Summer in Austin got rolling. The year before sucked for my new home and as for the other years, I would say I hadn’t had a really decent Summer since 1991. To be fair … Continue reading →

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Welcome May and this month’s header

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Steve

Onward to what will probably be our second full month of being in the Pandemic Shirt Storm so what better Header is there than a Horror movie! May 2020 is also the 40th anniversary of the Friday the 13th series. Now … Continue reading →

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June 2015 was the record holder at 58

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Steve

Let’s hear it for boredom again as it helped me get cracking on writing new stuff for my site. Namely my backlog of reviews for movies and TV. Or would it be the Pandemic banning me from going to Alamo … Continue reading →

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Welcome April…I guess

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Steve

I often look forward to April 1st but given the Pandemic of 2020 along with all the economic fallout; holy crap! Three-plus million unemployment filings recently. It this Recession doesn’t defeat Orange Foolius, America is definitely a nation of stupid, … Continue reading →

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Welcome March 2020

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Steve

We’re one sixth of the way through 2020 but the impending awfulness called the American Election Season carries on. The South Carolina Primary had mixed results for me. Although Sen. Foot-in-Mouth wasn’t eliminated nor Mayor Buttplug, Sen. Cockblocker and Mayor … Continue reading →

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Welcome the Year of the Rat for February 2020!

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Steve

Of course I know that Chinese New Year was on January 25 this year but it’s traditionally around February in the West because we don’t use a Lunar-based calendar needing a special month every few years to prevent July feeling … Continue reading →

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Changes coming to Maggi Picayune, nothing dramatic

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Steve

I thought I would be digging out, getting everything all caught up once the dust settled with the divorce, a new year, so on. Ha! The problem has been how much I’ve let things slide since Summer. I won’t complain … Continue reading →

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Life is pretty good so far

Posted on December 14, 2019 by Steve

Last night was my employer’s end of the year party. I had a pretty good time and took a plus-one guest since I didn’t want it to go to waste. This person was pretty cool, hope we get to hang … Continue reading →

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This is my equivalent of putting up a tree

Posted on December 8, 2019 by Steve

I don’t have to worry about any cats trying to climb the tree. It’s portable. It’s easy to put away when the season is over (January 6). I’m also amazed at how the LEGO employee(s) forged the design from dozens … Continue reading →

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What’s with the December 2019 Header?

Posted on December 1, 2019 by Steve

It’s December now. Shouldn’t I have a Christmas, Solstice, Festivus, whatever, theme in the Header space and not what appears to be the Eagles’ Hotel California album cover? Well, I did piece together a GIF-based header because my host and great … Continue reading →

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Maggi Picayune back on track now

Posted on December 1, 2019 by Steve

For starters, if anyone has been following the site and ended up feeling disappointed, I apologize. Same goes for those wondering why their RSS readers continued to show nothing new. I’m going to use the new month of December and … Continue reading →

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