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Our land is filled with mourning, from Bourbon to Malone And many wives and mothers are weeping, sad and alone Adapted from an old civil war poem turned folktale by Allison Kraus and Union Stat...
A thing I like, and I thing I hate. in anticlimatic
I like the phrase “lock in.” It’s a great description of one of the super powers we possess as humans. Adrenaline is linked to emotion, even though it’s extremely physical in nature. In this w...
Every morning I step outside awash with gratitude for the fresh air on my face and the privilege of getting to work on this beautiful earth. This morning I drove 40 minutes into the middle-of-...
How To Fix The Housing Crisis in anticlimatic
The lack of interesting ideas or solutions on this front is frustrating to me. So I would like to offer mine. I focus on two specific problems: the gulf in cost between renting and owning, and ...
What movie scene traumatized you as a child? in anticlimatic
I’ve been thinking about this scene lately. It had a profound impact on me when I was a young child. The whole movie, in fact. It’s hard to imagine now, but when I was a child this was the ...
If you’ve never played a tabletop RPG (like dungeons and dragons) I highly recommend dabbling in it, for educational purposes. Almost everything you need to know about the nuts and bolts behind ...
for posterity, and whatever cliff it happens to fall from in anticlimatic
I always think that I’m writing for my own record keeping, assuming that a day will come when I’ll want to go back and read through all the old thoughts I had and forgotten about, but not once h...
How To Stop Saying Goodbye in anticlimatic
Fought my way through a 20 minute line at 11:00 am at the soon-to-be-closed-forever deli and bakery of my youth earlier this week. The closer it gets to Doom-Day, the busier that place gets. 5...
Drawing Maps In The Dark in anticlimatic
I noticed today, while playing around with a 1967 photograph of the collapse of The North Pole’s roof (ironically) by heavy snow, that I was playing around with my 100th time travel vignette. It...
Rhubarb Cobbler in anticlimatic
It feels like every small and arbitrary decision I make today is undermined by a bad luck conspiracy to annoy me. Like that scene in Office Space, when every time Peter changes lanes traffic beg...
The Great Northern Wall in anticlimatic
I take my morning commute in 10 degree silence. My truck has remote start, but I don’t use it anymore. I just put my winter work armor on and hop in. Enjoy that stiff, dimming-service-lights mo...
The line between authenticity and social acceptance in anticlimatic
Be a child: feral, authentic, no concept of society. Be a child in society: meet rejection, fear, misunderstanding, evil people. Get wrecked. Bury the child. Become a good citizen: embrace ...
When it's good, there's nothing better than country music in anticlimatic
According to a headline, the most popular song in 2026 so far is a country song- ‘Choosing Texas,’ by Ella Langley, a young performer who I am pleasantly surprised is enduring. Excuse me, you lo...
Union Street Closing in anticlimatic
Another jewel from my memory is to be thrown on the flaming pyre of history later this month, though it’s been many years since I’ve been to it. Many years since Kathryn, six foot six with a pix...
How do you explain this feeling to a girl? in anticlimatic
The locking in. The levers. The gauges. The roar of 10,000 tiny parts all working together to rocket you through time and space. The pure exaltation of being so good at something that you’re...
Tim the Douchebag Taylor in anticlimatic
The more I watch Tim the Tool Man Taylor, the more I find myself more annoyed than entertained. The window into the boomer child bearing years psyche is incredibly intriguing, especially since i...
A Gander In The Mirror in anticlimatic
I must confess that my time spent gazing in the mirror, while never much to begin with, has been reduced to a quick glare in the pre dawn dark while I brush my teeth, still mostly asleep, and al...
Don't sleep on Buster Scruggs in anticlimatic
Re-watched this country western Twilight Zone homage to death recently and was flattened out by it, yet again. I always forget how good movies can be directed until I watch a Cohen brothers movi...
A particular tactic in music theory in anticlimatic
There was a time before I was 10 years old that the only place I ever wanted to be was this dumpy little historic park next to the waste processing plant because it had this incredible twisty sl...
Hidey-Ho Good Neighbor! in anticlimatic
I find myself extremely disturbed by the events in Minneapolis, and my brain keeps trying to work out why it happened and how it could have been prevented. I feel so bad for her. I hope at lea...
The Outsider in anticlimatic
by Camus. Excelled read, I highly recommend. A distant ex of mine used to accuse me of being 2% gay based on a phenomenon that she noticed back then, that many have noticed before and since: ...
Love letter to my bathroom in anticlimatic
I thought about getting the bath started before writing this entry, but I’ve come to learn that filling a bath tub is a bit like boiling water. The second you take your eyes off of it, it’s read...
Back to loving Country Music, in theory in anticlimatic
I used to hate country music. Then love it. Then hate it again. Then love it again. Then hate it again. For different varying reasons, as time has moved forward. I hated it in the 80s because ...
Loyalty in anticlimatic
My friend who has been on the lam from local law enforcement- somewhere far out of state, out west I believe, for many years now- reached out for the first time in quite a while. I had been thin...
Net Positives & Christmas in anticlimatic
Had a bit of a Slaughterhouse 5 moment on the way to brunch with the family this Christmas morning. I was driving down the unnaturally empty streets with my wrapped presents and cards in the pas...
