haredawg drools

When the going gets weird; the weird turn pro

Hunter S Thompson

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Either way the monkey wins, but when it comes to monkey on monkey crime you go home with the one what brought you. That made more sense a hundred thousand years ago and it might make more sense a...


December 08, 2015

Penguin Cams in Normal entries

It’s the crack of Tuesday-ish and nobody cares. Somebody might, but not anyone I know. I made a mix tape once, maybe twice, with songs about the days of the week. Nobody cared, nobody I knew. And...


Someone told me, long ago and far away, that there was a scientific study where at the moment of death the human body mysteriously loses approximately one and a half ounces of weight. The conclus...


December 03, 2015

Earth and Sky in Normal entries

There are people who are always staring at the ground and people always staring at the sky. They have at least two things in common; bumping into things and the hope of seeing something extraordi...


Once, a very long time ago, I was in a negotiation, a casual one, in my capacity as Union rep for a group of social workers. Easily the hardest job I never got paid for. The guy represented some ...


November 30, 2015

Something like it in Normal entries

Late, for me, a bit medicated. Today was a crunchy day; joints made crunchy noises when I moved them. I had thought of other entries, they withered on the vine like bad grapes or suicidal roses. ...


November 25, 2015

today in Normal entries

In a few hours I’m going back into the dentists. Yesterday I had an appointment with what is called complex care. It’s a piece of internal medicine but located in Cardiology so the offices are ni...


The other day it snowed. It didn’t snow hard but it snowed long. Here I mean, I’m sure it snowed in Alaska and sure it didn’t in San Diego. This morning I had to swipe the better part of a foot o...


True love is as mean a concept as Politically Correct. The phrases themselves are innocent enough, I guess, the implications not so much. True love implies that all other love was false and Polit...


What is it, Thursday already? Don’t answer that. I’m not sure what sort of relationship the calendar has with it’s mother, I won’t denigrate it, but this week has acted much like a motherfucker. ...


And a thousand thousand slimy things lived on and so did I — Rime of the Ancient Mariner Not so very long ago I could quote long passages from that poem by memory. Today I should be wearing a yel...


November 13, 2015

43 is wrong, I guess in Normal entries

The number 43 was stuck in my head. I think I’ve written entries based on forty three. I looked it up. Didn’t find the reference I was looking for, a lot of sevens and a thirty six. I suppose if ...


November 13, 2015

A quote in Normal entries

Today was weird. Hmmm, maybe not, I was weird the day was windy. I took my mom to the lab for bloodwork before the sun rose, well, before the dark grey was light grey, and later, left the dentist...


November 11, 2015

Stuff in Normal entries

I was somewhere, no really I go places and shit, and I was eavesdropping, if people don’t want me to hear they shouldn’t speak, and I think these two awkward students were talking about some TV s...


November 08, 2015

Yes, it's a thing in Normal entries

Sunday here as it is in most of the western hemisphere. West is an odd concept for an oblate spheroid in space, if you were, for instance, coming from Andromeda closed your eyes and spun around t...


When I watch semi-current TV shows, I watch them on xfinity dot com. It’s part of the Comcast bundle. If it’s a network show they put ads in. I think they are different ads than run live, unless ...


Hasn’t it been a while since some fringe group predicted a date for the end of the world? Wait, no, it probably hasn’t, but it’s been a while since they got any press. Today is the beginning of o...


October 31, 2015

Walking in Space in Normal entries

I don’t really have an excuse. I guess I should keep one handy or not tell people I don’t have one. It’s a bit like having a gun though, you are bound to find a reason to use it. Hmmm, I don’t t...


October 29, 2015

About effing time in Normal entries

It is later or it still is later. Below is some nonsense about the mundane habits of existence that I’ve been working on for a day or too. Heh. That gives the impression that I’ve put thought int...


Some random motherfucker says over my shoulder “Hey, buddy, you’re leaving your prints.” He meant on my phone. He probably thought he was a specific motherfucker and technically he was right, ran...


The weird thing about napping during the day is that I dream. I dreamt about an event I had pretty much forgotten. No weird dream shit added, more like a memory reborn as a dream. I don’t want to...


Every few months I catch a snippet of conversation, live or recorded, where someone my age is telling someone younger “We didn’t all get blue ribbons just for effort”. Canned cynicism is tiresome...


Today had it’s twists and turns, unexpectedly eventful and rife with pathos. Yes, I sidelined coached most of it, but high stress all the same. I have niece issues, not yet resolved daughter issu...


There might be something wrong with this office chair. I think it steals thoughts. Or I think so when I’m in a different chair. In this one select thoughts fly south to … shit on tourists. Snowbi...


These songs cracked me up, a long time ago. I got to see the Austin Lounge Lizards, I want to say at the old Starry Night. The Starry Night was a nightclub in Portland that booked national acts i...