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In this little college town I grew up in, during the time I was growing up, there were certain cultural artifacts that might have been particular to professors and college students. One of them b...
Musing
Not so very long ago, a hundred years or so, I led a fairly rich journaling life. Quantitative, that is. Possibly in direct proportion to having a lot of other things to do. Just as a general rul...
Stuff on desktop
When I came out here in the tail end of 2012 I took the things that would fit in a jeep. In hindsight I don’t regret the stupid choices I made, sure, I wish I had taken my dogs, but I had no reas...
Same thing only different
I’m sure I’ve written this entry a few times, or ones a lot like it, just not here. Probably. Maybe. I don’t know. I heard a lot of stories when I was on the road, a very long time ago. Some amaz...
Where the hair grows straight and mean
I keep almost having a flash; fiction, not menopause. Not that it’s anyone’s business, but I’m more like 2x speed than pause. You never think of male menopause but it must be a thing. I’m demonst...
Raising a glass to lost things again
There used to be this place on Hawthorne Blvd, below 32nd , A shabby storefront kitty corner from a great old house, I mean a large house with a surrounding porch that had be made into a group ho...
By Jove, or, you know, Buy Jove
Ok, I forgot about these guys. They’ve done stuff in the last five years, I don’t think they were around six years ago. Hmmm, I don’t think they were recording six years ago, it’s not like they ...
Which way the wind blows *edit* mini rant
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift — Bob Dylan Sorry y’all just another example of the countless song-out-of-cultural-context things. For some reason or the other, I’m th...
I love you baby can I have some more?
This song was recorded in 71 and released on the album Harvest in 1972. The least interesting connection is that it’s been stuck in my head most of the day. Well, it’s a bit interesting to me; n...
So the Queen wrote a music entry inspired by my whiney plea for new music. I liked hers better than mine. So here’s a more personal background of the family I’m from and the family I raised. My e...
The color of the word
Language is Virus — William Burroughs I went out on a short ride today. My back has been messed up and I think it’s been days since I left the house. The mid-Michigan sky sometimes has shades of ...
Changing position
“Sheppard, don’t the bible have real specific things to say about killing people?” “Yes it does. But it’s fuzzy on kneecapping.” — Firefly “Someone tries killing you, you kill em right back.” — F...
Leverage, now with new and improved Typos and absolutely no proof reading!
This is a little stupid but it speaks to the state of mind of the author. Ahem, me. Not only have I been laid up for the last week to three years, I’m in the throes of another wave of home sickne...
More stuff
Thank you to those who made suggestions last entry. I’ll probably say that in a note too. One of the problems of the information age is that there’s a shit ton of information. Sure you could type...
What are you listening to?
I have a serious question for y’all, and yeah, there’s an ulterior motive, but not the one that’s obvious. I’m going to tell you the ulterior motive and then it won’t be ulterior it’ll be anterio...
Brief State of the Dawg
Hard not to feel anxious about lost time. I used to be able to make that anxiety work for me, take the energy and do double time. For decades I switched careers around; a career is just a pedigre...
Putting the Burr in Labor day
There’s a thunder storm at my gates right now. Though this is my biological home, thunderstorms still take me by surprise. Exciting. As a kid I’d ride my bike out somewhere that I could taste the...
A couple of hours ago I tweaked my back goodly (heh, lookit me, making fun of misused adverbs and the whole backwards good/bad thing while my back is stiffer than a peach fuzz freshman peeking in...
Inspired by an Actual Entry
What is the difference between Based On a True Story and Inspired by Actual Events? It seems like Inspired is more arbitrary than based, True is subjective at least more so than actual, story has...
Warning
Yesterday was a hard day, but it had ups as well as downs. I was up late too watching Netflix TV. I’m sure I’ve bitched enough about the stupid rhetorical screenwriter trick of removing contracti...
Still haven't found what I'm looking for
Surprises me that I’ve been here at all this year. I’m not bad mouthing prose box, I like prose box, though there’s hardly any evidence to support that. I don’t participate much. It’s my head, my...
16 or lack thereof
Today would have been my sixteenth wedding anniversary, as the crow flies, and, presupposing a lack of a divorce two years ago. There’s a lot of any story not told if you take it as the crow flie...
Chunks of time
Earlier in the week I had a few stories running through my head, I was going to pop them in the flash Friday toaster, but one thing didn’t lead to another and I lost the thread. One was kind of f...
The narrow road to Arnold
Among the many things I don’t get some involve Arnold Schwarzenegger. Most of the things I don’t get I don’t even know I don’t get, but Arnold isn’t too complex for me to understand not getting h...
From the sponser *EDIT* now stupidier
There really isn’t a lot going on with me these days. I could whine about shit that hurts but I’m tired of the sound of my own voice, putting it in print doesn’t help any. Funny thing about old ...
Book Description
Thought I’d change the title. Some of my best friends are white girls. 95 percent of my friends are in cars going fast.
But perhaps For White Girls In Cars Going Fast was offensive. White girls can call each white girls, but I think we’re supposed to refer to them as pigment challenged Americans, which must confuse the hell out of the Brits, Aussies, and other such nationals on this site, e,g, “My pigmentation is fine and I’m a Not American American.”
