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week 32 and an orphan in Normal entries
Week 32 What advice would you give your teenage self? The practical response to this is nothing; I didn’t listen to people wiser and more in touch than I am, why the hell would I listen to me? Th...
Oh and it makes me wonder in Normal entries
Been up since like two fucking AM. Hard to find things to do. Nouns, it’s always difficult to find nouns to do, but verbs have been challenged as well, other ones besides doing which I seemed to ...
The long weekend in Normal entries
Notice how in the last twenty years or so Hollywood has dug up Lao Tzu and Confucius? The Confucius they love is some version of A man on a path of revenge must dig two graves. Now, I know the sc...
The Interview; Flash Wednesday in Normal entries
“Where were you in 1966, sir?” “Laos.” “New Mexico?” “You mean … Yes, I was in New Mexico, right up by the Ho Chi Minh Mesa and the Khymer Rouge Desert.” “Nice up there?” “Skiing was good.” “Sa...
The Death of Surveys in Normal entries
Sometime in the next 24 months I’ll have been keeping online journals for twenty years. So, here’s a Survey to suggest perhaps that time was wasted. How old will you be in 5 years? Dead, which k...
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, krishna, krishna, hare, hare in Normal entries
Bored shitless, or maybe just constipated, I followed a link to some latter-day mild article on “the environment” that was mostly tips on gas economy in cars. I came across this sentence “… shitt...
The vagaries of Whemp in Normal entries
It is a new day. Seriously, I checked my cell phone and it was one number closer to my demise than yesterday. Most calendars don’t give a shit one way or the other about my demise. My cell phone ...
Less tumors more kvetching in Normal entries
No brain tumor, not for me, sorry if you got one, though, you’ll be a hit at your kids show and tell especially if you’re also a clown or a fireman. Both my GF and daughter texted me in the docto...
OD theme; Kindness in Normal entries
This week’s theme punched me in the gut then kneed my nuts. Tell us about an act of kindness. It should be easy, I’m pressed for time but not hard pressed. The immediate present hasn’t been fille...
Where was I? Oh. Here. Still in Normal entries
There is no killing time without injuring eternity — HDT I’m in the limbo between an appointment and nothing. When I was gifted a lifetime membership to OD, a year before the chronic crashes and ...
The price of fog in Normal entries
Fog this morning until around nine. It’s different this far inland, denser, not thicker, there just isn’t any airiness. Swamp fog. There’s a song I always associate with inland swamp fog; There...
Woof in Normal entries
There’s a dog on this street, close I believe, who barks at the same time every morning, in the same cadence, for the same amount of time. He or she has a routine. Routines are comfortable for ma...
Beyond the Pale in Normal entries
Wrote some other stuff, didn’t care for it. Called one plumber and a couple of shrinks. Plumbers answer their phone. How many shrinks do you have to call to get an appointment? I don’t know, I su...
Sweet Misery in Normal entries
Fuzzy newborn chick with a trout strapped to his back is hanging on a dorm room wall. An eighteenth-century lithograph of the hanging of a witch with the caption “hang in there baby”. These were ...
Caution; unsavory words and thematic elements in Normal entries
They didn’t literally prescribe; Ass fuck, take twice daily before lubrication. They came very close to literally writing; he’ll have nothing and like it (the like it part is hyperbole). I don’t ...
Beg pardon, what? in Normal entries
The mercury is creeping on ninety, or, would be if I had mercury in my thermometers. Every digital device I have, including the home thermostat, has a different theory on the very empirical immed...
Interns in the Mist in Normal entries
Healthcare clusterduck today. Oh, not trying to be coy, GF’s phone auto-corrects to the politest when it’s not being entirely revisionist, mine does just the opposite. I’ve gotten used to typing ...
Shelter from the storm in Normal entries
PSU, Portland State University. Don’t fret never having heard of it, I hadn’t either when I applied. I only applied to schools in places I wanted to live; Portland, OR and Albuquerque, NM. I was ...
Flash Monday; A russian Soul in Normal entries
When the mob began to swell I was going to swell along. That force that drives us down the short boulevard needed me somewhere else. I woke up in someone’s bathtub, days later, or maybe just hour...
Win Win Whine in Normal entries
Started dreaming again, medication has changed. In a broad sense I suppose I’m neutral, day to day, however, it’s fucking weird. How do you people manage to do stuff? I could suggest my dreams ar...
... And the dawg's still barking in Normal entries
Shit, I don’t remember why I orphaned this, it’s slept with the computer for at least two nights, tucked away in the lower right. I barely remember writing it. I think that wouldn’t happen so oft...
Dog world in Normal entries
Until I met the once and future Mrs. Ex-Haredawg, sometime around the middle of the crack of 1978, I hadn’t realized I wanted kids. I hadn’t even thought about it, though I did carry a condom in ...
Of Hashtags and folk in Normal entries
Hashtag Walkaway, can anybody give me a coherent and positive explanation of what the fuck this is? I’m serious, no argument or judgement, unless we have wildly different notions of what coherent...
This is the title, this is its spout in Normal entries
Journal writing is a bitch, the straight day to day sort of shit. Weird as it seems after eighteen years of keeping an online journal, I don’t much care of the core of the idea; not in general, b...
Get behind the Mule in Normal entries
There was a diarist here (no matter where here is), one of few I think about who either isn’t dead or pretending to be (there’s the story of John Irish, if you’re really bad and you don’t know, I...
