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"I could perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principle design was to inform you, and not to amuse you."

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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I finished reading “Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus” by Matt Taibbi. Two quotes from the book: “America has been trending stupid for a long time.” “A lot of American cult...


I found an email Wednesday from the library. A book! A new book! After my morning coffee I took off walking to fetch it. While I was there I ordered another book off my list. I spent the rest of ...


Sunday before last I was up 2.2 lbs. in mass. This Sunday I was up .2 lbs. Not sure what happened there with that nearly three pound weekly loss a few weeks ago. I eat and defecate about the same...


I finished reading “A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves” by Walter Alvarez yesterday. That was the book I’d checked out last Monday. I’m still waiting for two boo...


Sunday morning after waking up at my usual 10am I pulled back the blanket over the window and found huge snowflakes falling from the sky. It wasn’t accumulating as the ground was much too warm. B...


I’m still sitting here. I finished reading “The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule” by Thomas Frank. He’s the guy who wrote “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” His predictions have come true in K...


February 19, 2017

No Winter? in A small but passable life.

I had to look to see when I’d last scribbled in here. Sixteen days ago. Wow. Okay. Where was I? Monday before last Liam Dog and I walked to the library to check out the two books waiting for me. ...


February 03, 2017

Indeed. in A small but passable life.

I finished reading “The Kingdom of Speech” by Tom Wolfe. An interesting overview on the phenomena for sure. Wednesday I walked downtown to the library to return the book. I also ordered two more ...


Barely into his second week as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States and he’s killed his first U.S. service member and an eight year old girl. This occurred in Yemen. I don’...



I finished reading “America at War with Itself” by Henry A. Giroux. “We are already living amongst the ruins of the future.” -Henry A. Giroux I actually went out for a walk yesterday to the lib...




Less than forty-eight hours until the president elect with the lowest poll rating two days before swearing in in poll history is sworn in. I tried watching some of the hearings, but I couldn’t d...


Ken Ham is the perfect example of mental illness. How in the fuck can anyone be so close minded and ignorant as this dumbass?


So, that was a nice walk yesterday. Liam Dog wasn’t awake yet when I headed out at about 4pm. I could have waited but the forecast was predicting rain to start soon. I had to dig out my toque and...


We didn’t go for a walk in the snow. Then the snow melted. It was 68 degrees this past Wednesday. Thursday it was 32 degrees. Yesterday the trees were covered with ice all day. Today it is almost...


I woke up the second time this morning thinking “10:18”. It was 10:10. Not bad. I got up and pulled back the towel over the south window. Snow. Snowing. There was already a few inches on the grou...


Well hell. I made it to another year. 2017. Why do people say “twenty seventeen” when it is obviously two thousand seventeen? Recap of 2016- I read only twenty-two books. I sat in this lawn chai...


About a week or so ago we had some actual December weather with temps below freezing. Yesterday and today it was, is sixty degrees. And last night a narrow band of thunderstorm rolled through. Ch...


I’ve finished reading “The Afterlife” by John Updike. I first read it May 1997. Now nearly twenty years later I’m that much closer to the characters in age. I also read it much slower this time I...


Continuing with the Updike. Paused enough yesterday to note: 32 degrees here, 71 degrees there, at 2:42pm. And about the same today. And I was correct in my word choice awhile back. On Southpark...


10:42am- I woke up this morning and laid there for a bit. The clock in my head was bouncing around between “9:38” and “10:20”. I finally gave up waiting and looked at the travel clock- 10:02. Exa...


December 07, 2016

Gray days. in A small but passable life.

The squirrels didn’t wake me up this morning. Too cold? I woke up thinking “10:05”. I held my travel clock up (the blue night light button stopped working a long time ago) and eased back the blan...


December 03, 2016

Just life. in A small but passable life.

Three stages of life: Birth What the fuck is this? Death It was two years ago today that I landed in the desert for the first of four trips during the following year and a half. I didn’t ...


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