Entries 373

Page 1 of 15

I don’t know anyone that seems to have their priorities straight, who hasn’t also had to manage significant grief in their life. The people squandering their time on cynical entitlement and pett...

---

“According to psychology the greatest form of peace is to have zero desire to be understood, pitied, admired, or even known.” I keep bumping into people I haven’t seen for a decade or more. Peo...

---

Before I went radio-only in the kitchen I used to do vinyl while I cooked or did dishes. I have some great records, but for whatever reason, more often than not it was Anne Murray’s Greatest...

---

My good buddy and I were sitting on his porch chatting last night as the evening got deep. He’s heading back west next week, ending roughly a year of nearly constant back and forth visits. We go...

---

My senior year of high school was fucked. Expelled from one school part way through, and required at the next school to play a whole bunch of credit catch-up from spending too much time whacking...

---

There are two types of people in this world: Romantics, who love humanity but are delusional by nature, and refuse to accept it for what it really is. And rationalists, who mostly hate humani...

---

Gary and I both agree that 3rd Eye Blind’s popular breakup album from the late 90s was something of a musical miracle that holds up today better than almost anything else from that specific genr...

---

Ended up making stew late into the evening tonight. A blues program on the radio kept me company. Local show, from the nearby college that broadcasts half NPR and half local programming. “The J...

---

Almost rage-quit my life today on several occasions. It was the theme of the day, in fact. The theme for yesterday was “I’m in everyone’s way.” Starting with a morning stop at one of my favor...

---

Every day, the second I get home from work- sore and exhausted, I have to pay attention to my two needy cats before I can do anything else. Norah is a tortie, and extremely boisterous and food ...

---

I have always been extremely interested in the peculiar dichotomy of terror. Not horror, even though it’s tough to tell them apart. Horror carries the potential for shock and disgust, but terro...

---

I have these odd moments throughout the day. Specific flashes of disassociation in which I am momentarily transported across time and space to some quaint corner of the world inspired by dista...

---

I have to stop being an idiot. I have this inner team spirit thing going in my brain, in which any system or group or game I happen to be involved in, I like to see things happen as evenly and ...

---

Mostly, this one is on the backstory. First I must confess that I have been absolutely in love with Heart, and Ann Wilson in particular, since high school. I think she has the most powerful...

---

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...

---

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-...

---

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 ...

---

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 ...

---

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...

---

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...

---

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...

---

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...

---

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...

---