Duke
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Lila in Background Noise
One of my many attempts at fiction - Lila 6/27/2012 I looked to the port and saw our three mosquito craft astern and slightly trailing. Over the wireless I told them to break off and head back t...
Hollywood Waltz in Background Noise
It has been rainy and windy today. I have the back door and the front windows open and it smells like fall. It seems like overnight the leaves all started changing. It seems like it will be a...
Hells Bells in Background Noise
My Original OD Name was Blinded by the Light, BBTL. I threw that one away, and became “Duke.” This is the entry I wrote when I made that decision. . . . Written 7/11/2008. After hitting the s...
Roads to Moscow (Unfinished) in General
There is a lot of Al Stewart’s work I love. But this has to be the most haunting. It has been cool and windy all day. The sky leaden and sullen. The winter warlock is sharpening his spurs. Gr...
Strange Magic in General
The blonde singing backup in the song was Jeff Lynn’s wife for a while. She has a metaphysical hotness. I came in from mowing the lawn and the TV was still on. There was a show interviewing th...
Friday Night, Ain't Wrote in a While in General
I watched two movies back to back. Ex Machina Gone Girl I found them both disturbing. Ex Machina because never before had I wanted more to fuck a robot (Ava). Never saw that ending coming and...
So Obsessed in General
Okay, just a little bit. I fast forward through commercials when watching shows on the DVR. This one I don’t fast forward through. I actually back up to get all 15 seconds. It’s just wrong ...
Another productive day. Almost made it through the second bankers box full of crap. Tomorrow another ten pounds of shredding going to Staples. Four miles on the treadmill at 3.5 incline and 4....
Nightswimming in General
Quiet weekend. Just finished watching New England beat Buffalo. A little close for comfort. It has been cool and windy all day. Winter is coming, if I may be so bold as to quote Game of Thron...
I can’t seem to directly embed videos. I missed the beach today because I was messing with reformatting test videos to see if they would play here. It takes forever for them to load from photob...
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Dante's Prayer in General
Second day in a row to the beach. Summer is coming to a close, and it is best to get when the getting is good. The too pretty out of state daughters are gone, and the too pretty locals are back...
All Kinds of Time in General
Labor Day weekend is sort of a miserable mix around here. Every holiday weekend sees the population of Maine double. It still cracks me up to realize there are more people living in Manhattan ...
When I go to sleep I walk into my bedroom. The lights off. I turn on the window AC, then the fan. I put my water bottle on the bedside table and roll into bed. I start on my back. And as I dri...
Question So, one of the people I follow on Facebook is Amber Smith. She was an Army Helicopter pilot and now bounces around on TV as a commentator about military issues. I saw her on Cavuto, and...
Throw it all Away in General
Throw it all Away Take your cautionary tales And take your incremental gain And all the sycophantic games And throw ‘em all away Burn your tv in your yard And gather ‘round it with your friends ...
Brother o' Mine in General
I was hemming and hawing about mowing the back lawn and washing the car. The phone rang, caller ID being my parents. Brother of mine has in the last week: Punched his landlord, putting him in t...
A Man I'll never Be in General
I first heard that song when some friends took me skiing. I had never skied before, but they said “Don’t worry, we’ll teach you.” There was a really big hill on Loring AFB in northern Maine. I...
I am doing the best I can to follow the Bushido. But I get angry on occasions. The asshat in Virginia who killed two people because he was fired. Then blamed his actions on being fired, because ...
Edge of a Broken Heart in General
Fuck me. I found out Jan Kuehnemund, the founder and lead guitarist of Vixen passed away in ‘13. Cancer. Jesus Christ, she was my age.
Soul Surfer in General
Soul Surfer I watched Soul Surfer last night. Yep. I got misty. Mostly over her frustration, and her families frustration that there is nothing you can do about something that has already h...
Nadia's Theme in General
Nadia’s Theme While not a big “Soap” fan, my mother used to be. I remember hearing this tune coming from the living room. This about the time - the mid 70s - I started fancying myself a writer...
SketchShe is a sketch comedy group from Oz. What is in the water down under? Holy cow! Weird weather here this summer. Almost more like a South Carolina summer. Beautiful days and afternoon ...
Ten Years After in General
Hard to believe. On last Saturday it had been 10 years since I retired from the United States Navy. We had Beanies birthday party (party might be a bit much, it was having some pizza and chee...
