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I’ve been thinking about people, songs and places that I haven’t thought about in years. Compulsively, not like a passing fancy, but in depth; old friends, old attractions, old acquaintances. The...

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It’s 2013, late in the year, American ground troops are in Iraq, and a man, let’s call him John, kneels on the floor in a roadside motel outside of tupelo. He’s naked, not erotically, a premature...

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Kaneh-Bosm is a Hebrew phrase (phonetically of course) for the oil Jesus used to anoint and cleanse feet with. Ok, that’s a celebrity endorsement, he didn’t invent the stuff, the recipie is older...

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I just lived through three months of a trump presidency, maybe four, feels like longer, and all the attendant lionizing and demonizing and Christ you’d think it would damn hard to offend me now, ...

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Originally the flag had a moose and a squirrel, not a moose and an elk. The caption was Carpe Moose N Squirel. This was when Russia briefly held the territory under the governess of Boris and Nat...

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When I was in school (shut up, I totally went to school, shit I’ve got enough book larning to hit the middle of the Trump administration edgumacation bell curve) I had trouble finding English cla...

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I’m not sure if I mentioned this before, it was several months in the making. Back when everybody was fiercely polarizing, instead of the dull roar of us vs them, I made more contact with faceboo...

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Monday morning you sure look fine, Friday I got traveling on my mind, first you love me, then you get on down the line, but I don’t mind — Fleetwood Mac On a Monday I was arrested — Leadbelly Mon...

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I used to think in stories and poetry. As obvious as that sounds to me, it might not be that obvious, I don’t know, on one level I think there’s only a fraction of a degree of separation between ...

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Let’s call it March 5th 1991 because thaty’s close enough for jazz. Um, what’s it? I took over another workers caseload, my memory wants to say because she was a shitty social worker, but I didn’...

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You know how you’re in an elevator or on hold with your CPA or something and the muzak philharmonic version of, say, muskrat love comes on, and you find yourself singing along and any progress yo...

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I eat out with great frequency here. In part because the kitchen in this house is not cook friendly and partly because I’m lazy. I swear a lot trying to cook in a cramped space with limited surfa...

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In a rare fit of pique amazon sent me a testy letter about all the reviews I hadn’t written yet and how some of their vendors livelihood depends on the reviews. Ok, I’m overstating their pique bu...

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When I get a new project, hobby, habit, I tend to get either all compulsive or very focused depending on whether it’s healthy or not (I mean they are the same thing with opposite connotations). T...

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There’s this shrink I know, he says we dream in black and white. Maybe it’s a vet and it’s dogs that dream in black and white. I talk to more shrinks than vets. I don’t like talking about dreams....

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I’ve been thinking a lot about sex lately. I know, it’s relative, um, incest is relative literally, figuratively “a lot” is abstractly relative to how much I thought about sex in times not consid...

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Been an odd week, I suppose I could figure out a way of ‘splaining, but it’s not over yet and there’s always the possibility of jinxing things. I can’t explain what a jinx is, not without it unra...

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The power was out for two days here. Of course, I thought of a thousand slimy things I wanted to talk about, and of course I forgot them all (put your panties back on, I was referencing S.T. Cool...

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There’s this meme going around that says something like; The number of muslims that have threatened me; 0. The number of white men that have threatened me; too many to count. And, of course, it’s...

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Was at Target a few days ago picking up some pillow cases, pool balls, duct tape, tin snips, a thick plastic tarp … The upside to national stores is that shit is always in the same place. I picke...

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“Ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex” — Every ED commercial. I was trying to remember where and how I learned that you could be too fucked up for sex. Um, let me rephrase; suf...

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The season seems to be changing right this minute. This is when I understand Haikus, how all the sorrow and joy and personal history of a person with a pen can be encoded in a few lines, a symbol...

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I’m a little disappointed. Here we face both the end of the world and the end of Open Diary and no one is making book. Sure the odds on favorite for the end of the world is sometime in November r...

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I think we have the technology to make digital mirrors. Sort of like a web cam projected from inside a pixel based mirrored glass. You could use them fro entertainment (Superimpose someone else’s...

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Face book asks me to share memories. Sometimes they are links to OD. No sighing. Where have I been the last week or so? Out of town away from computer in a dead zone for phone. It was nice. Here’...

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