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It’s late. Here. For me. Other places it’s earlier. It’s earlier in Chicago. Only an hour, but still, some old guy with an acoustic and a harmonica hasn’t even started his second set. Me I was in...

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When I was a child I barked like a child I bit like child I have put away childish things Except the squeky ball and chew rope That was a desktop orphan, I probably thought it was funny at the ti...

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My phone honked with a National Weather Service warning for tomorrow; snow, ice up to four inches. I’ve had cell phones since the days of the brick, um, that’s what we called them, they were abou...

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We were given misinformation. It’s a safe bet as a general statement. Some of us were given the same misinformation for different cause. Many of us were given misinformation from people who belie...

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A couple of days ago I stopped by a starbucks, one of the ones inside target. Starbucks always throws me off a bit here. They call me sir without a smirk, are pleased me choices, happily ask if t...

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I had this TV show on. The end credits rolled and I couldn’t tell you what the hell, even took me a minute to figure the name of the show. One of the culprits was this Now is as good a time as ...

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There was this outfit several years back that used to buy a lot of prime time ad spots to run an anti-smoking campaign. It was, and still is, called the Truth or the Truth dot com. It was difficu...

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At about 1115 this morning it started snowing. Hard tiny little pellets, too light to be called hail. Since then it has snowed harder and lighter. I’d say it was snowing like a motherfucker but i...

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I admitted in a note a few hours ago that I didn’t exactly know something that I had typed as if I actually knew it. To my credit I have typed about a bazillion times this millennium; What the Fu...

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I used to go to Sunday school when I was a kid, of course when I was a kid, it’d be a bit creepy to hang out with the kids in Sunday school while their parents were upstairs singing or tithing or...

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She walked by a cell phone on the sidewalk. It was lit and a man’s voice was coming from the small speaker. She hurried past so the sound of her heels would be indistinguishable. She thought as...

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Strange shrinking today. I get pretty dang abstract. In general I tend to eschew the linear whenever practical (I say as though it’s a matter of will. Bolshevik!). If I didn’t know that about me ...

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Today was a good day, I suppose, as far as days go. The sun shone, the birds sang, crocus’s rose through the frosty dew. I didn’t have anything to do with it. That’s ok, lots of days manage just ...

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“So, what about your parents?” “God I hate small talk.” “Me too. Let’s just have sex.” “With each other?” “Big talk.” “Ok. I didn’t know my parents.” “Orphan?” “Don’t give me that face, see what...

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My little sister is driving in today from Nashville. The Doppler makes the Midwest look like someone dotted his eye and broke his nose; green, yellow, purple — I’m guessing it’s a rough drive. To...

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There was this sixth grade teacher I had, he looked like Ed Asner, he taught history and social studies. It was the first time a grown up had actually taught me about subliminal advertising. He w...

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Yeah, so, fuck. One of the things that one hopes for happened shrink-wise today, I mean for me. Another thing you hope doesn’t happen happened for dude. The idea of talk therapy is that you keep ...

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The year is almost one third over. In that time I think I both resurrected the ghost of ‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy and wrote about a Bob Marley documentary I saw. Texting with the GF today, ...

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On the carousal side of three AM, most of the carnies have drunk themselves to sleep, the rest are shooting craps for poker money and swapping golden tales of the day before. Laundry hasn’t been ...

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September of 2012, belly full and the sun just rising, I’m pulling out of provost Utah, shit, maybe Ogden, and I’m climbing into the hills, there’s a thick fog, back lit by the rising sun, I bank...

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If ever I’m asked why the scots are beguiled I’ll raise up my glass and I’ll say with a smile “Fortune dealt Scotland the wildest of cards” Oh the roving dies hard — Battlefield band I’ll see if ...

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Today was going to be different. So far it has been. I woke up in the dark, thanks in part to daylight savings, but I think it would have been dark anyway. It’s St. Pattys day here which is like ...

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High winds today. They come rollicking off the lake when they come. The advisory always warns high profile vehicles. I’m sure they mean tall ones and not, say, a 700 series BMW, a Lamborghini or,...

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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. I never got that one. It makes it sound like angels are penguins or emus, you know, big wings but flightless. I think the saying is supposed to be a stro...

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Over the last few years a couple of words have crept onto my shit list. Ok, a few dozen marched onto my shit list too playing kazoos and waving the Union Jack, and some just climbed the shit list...

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