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My memory has been playing tricks on me. It’s the safe bet because I can’t possibly have all those quarters behind my ear, a queen of hearts in my jacket pocket (That’s my card!) and a rabbit up ...

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He was propped up on motel pillows in Lincoln Nebraska, watching Telemundo with Serbian subtitles, drinking cough syrup and waiting for the cops to bust down the door. In the drawer of the night ...

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“You look really familiar.” “No I don’t.” “Yes, really familiar.” “Well I’m not.” “I’ve seen you somewhere before.” “Impossible, I haven’t been anywhere. I’ve been out of the country, off planet....

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“… So kids that’s it, I’m a cop, cops are your friends, we protect and serve.” Miss Klein coughed. “Oh, I’m Carries dad.” She coughed again. “Um are there any questions. Every demon spawn punk as...

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I know it seems long, but I just started typing, less than thirty minutes. I swear I’m going to keep writing shit until I write something I like XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXX “You are on a subway pl...

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The first engine whined, the second keened, and the moon pulled at me; a dull yellow glow in a low cloud. A few bumps down the runway and we were up. The smuggler grunted. “I haven’t flown one of...

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Spent part of the day rearranging my clutter, but not enough so you’d notice. So that one would notice, notice an attempt to clean. I’m not saying you don’t care or that there is no pleasing you,...

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I am a wolf of the steppes — Herman Hesse Although the world would have one less brilliant novel in it, Hesse could have just left it at that one line and it would have been fine with me. My memo...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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“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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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“What’s new, Chester?” “Nothing sir, just the names. Crazy has a short half-life and a shorter news cycle.” “Ok, what’ve you got?” “A born again rock star, page three, metro.” “Help me out.” “Sec...

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