O Ceallaigh's Observations is the place where I put my miscellaneous writings: poetry, short stories, essays on non-science topics.

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THE DRIVE EAST: Travel Essays

Part 1: Hotel Subaru (14 August 2006)

Part 2: Of Saltbush, Merle Haggard, and A River To Nowhere (16 August 2006)

Part 3: Mirage (17 August 2006)

Part 4: Big Sky (21 August 2006)

Part 5: Nebraska Radio and Monkey Porn (22 August 2006)

Part 6: The Silver Quarter (23 August 2006)

Part 7: Heartland, the Pride of America (28 August 2006)

Part 8: Dancing With Truckers (2 October 2006)

ESSAYS AND TALES

A Hamburger in New Brunswick

A Humble Apology (12 August 2006)

A Midnight On Main Street (5 June 2006)

American Torture: Racking Up The Points

An Issue of The New Yorker

The Blue and the Gray / The Blue and the Red

Chili Cheese Fries and Lawn Daisies

"El Tren de la Muerte": Hopping the Freight From Hell

E.R.M.G.

E.R.M.G. - Update

Feeling Brave Today? (12 December 2006)

Finding America (A Meditation) (4 July 2006)

Fireworks At the Fancy Church (3 July 2006)

God Damn the ... Who? (27 September 2006)

Good Times, Bad Times (16 December 2006)

Hurtful Silliness

Look Down: Les Misérables Revisited

Maine: The Way Life Should ... um ... (4 December 2006)

Maybe it's time... (3 December 2006)

No Goosey Gander (15 July 2006)

Of Cantaloupe, 12-Grain Bread, and the Claw of the Sea Puss (12 July 2006)

Of Goosesteps, Municipal Bands, and Children Left Behind (16 November 2006)

Of Green Berets, Yellow Ribbons, and Abraham Lincoln (29 June 2006)

Of Idols, Black Helicopters, and Leaving On Jet Planes (25 May 2006)

Of Liberty, Justice, and What "All" Means (14 June 2006)

Of Loyalists, Funny Money, and the Invasion of Mexico: Past Incarnations of George W. Bush

Of Nor'easters, Gum Trees, and the Union Pacific Railroad

Of Partners, Public Eavesdropping, and the Decline and Fall of Manhood

Of SATs

Of Towels, Gunslingers, and Bed Warmers

Of Trumpet Players, Trumpet Makers, and Trumpet Strikers (1 June 2006)

Of Trumpets, American Idols, and Brave New Worlds

On the Christianity of the "Chronicles of Narnia"

Peace: Of Baghdad, Vietnam, and Marching Through Georgia

The Playing of "Taps" (22 May 2006)

Pogo Goes To Namibia (28 May 2006)

Pogo Reads the Supermarket News (24 August 2006)

Re: One Nation Under God

Re: Writing and Blogging for Dollars

Requiem For A Bicycle (21 June 2006)

Speedom of Freech, Dr. Spooner

Star Trek: Shock, Awe, and Halliburton (12 June 2006)

Student Protest is Alive and Well - But Not at Berkeley

Tag, You're Seeing the Principal (19 October 2006)

Three Prescriptions for Male Teachers

Traffic Control - A Fable of Transportation Safety (29 November 2006)

HUMOR AND SATIRE

Geriatric Cats

On Making Friends

POETRY

a joint like this

amazing the small carriages: see pictures at 0300 hours (29 July 2006)

available: see pictures at 0300 hours (29 July 2006)

bachelor folding

confessional (23 October 2006)

doryman (4 October 2006)

dry

fearing the reaper

Frank Sinatra

from the opposite wall

grunge at 50

grunge at 51

moth

"Ohio", anno 2006

Piper

the problem with the blues

purple asters (17 October 2006)

qoheleth emeritus

quiet (my 9/11 poem)

sad lisa

science in maine (27 July 2006)

selah (22 November 2006)

the sensitive plant; see Stupid Plant Tricks: Sensitive Plants And Other Wierdos

she was: see pictures at 0300 hours (29 July 2006)

when i am gone (24 July 2006)

when you took my arm (8 November 2006)

THE SCIENTIST SHORT STORIES

A Skateboard In a Shop Window

A Star in a Chessboard Sky

the drift (20 June 2006)

september is the saddest month (2 September 2006)

SPORTS

Bum's Rush At the World Cup (26 June 2006)

Of Bean-Balls, Name-calling, and Hooah In a Desert (23 June 2006)

Of Snowboards, Superstars, and the Shortcomings of Silver

Rape, Murder, and Mayhem: Of Pledges, Profits, and Swinging Helmets (18 October 2006)

RIP Curt Gowdy

This is the Year You Tear Up Your NCAA Bracket Pool

Why I Gave Up the NFL

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  - O Ceallaigh

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