Welcome one and all (probably one) to Mel's Black Cloud. As with all new ventures, this one has a mission. My mission is to entertain you with my musings about life (this mission barely beat out Getting Ericka Off My Ass!). These musings will vary from themes like religion, politics, family to personal. However, all my postings will be delivered from the skewed view from under My Black Cloud. I will endeavor to write with a comical honesty laced with satire which teeters on the sharp edge of bitterness. Oh shit, I'm just writing something, anything to keep the real writer of my family (Ericka...see www.alabastercow.com) from giving me my daily poking with a sharp stick.
The Black Cloud title is in reference to my personal autobiography, "Me & My Black Cloud", I have partially written (Just like my other novel "Hail Mary" I have partially written...See a pattern?). My autobiography and my blog refer to my Black Cloud because I consider myself in general very Un-lucky. Now let's make something perfectly clear. I know I married way above my head and have a gorgeous wife who loves and takes care of me. I have an awesomely talented daughter who is both smart and beautiful, and who despite all my sarcasm about her, I consider my most honest friend in the world. She also married a man that any parent would be proud to call a son, much less a son-in-law. I also call him my business partner and a trusted friend. I have a precious granddaughter who is the heartbeat of our future. I don't consider these things luck. They are much to precious for that word. These things are blessings. My unlucky-ness stems from mundane things like having 4 kings in poker betting into that lucky moron with 4 aces. Trust me...true story. I have never bought a lottery ticket with more than one correct number. I have never won a contest of any kind. I have never pulled out of the garage without having to turn around because my wife thinks she left the stove on (we have done this over 7,000 times and not once has the stove ever been on). See...plain unlucky. As one of my poker friends once said about me, I am so unlucky it could be raining pussy and I would get hit by a dick!
So, if you dare, welcome to Mel's Black Cloud. It is a haven for me. A place to be real, tell things as I see them right or wrong. Don't expect chaste prose hemmed in by ettiquette because a writer is nothing if they have boundaries. You only have to look at Ericka's writing to see the raw edge of honesty because she acknowledges no boundaries. I aspire to do the same. So thank you Ericka for the inspiration (translation - sharp stick in the ass) to get at it and write because I know it is my passion even if I write from my skewed view from under Mel's Black Cloud.
