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Between Things in anticlimatic
I am having a hard time dealing with a fundamental truth tonight. That first paradox we learned about in Logic class. The “you can never get to the door” paradox. I get it now. As it suppose...
Travel By Lotion in anticlimatic
You know that cover of Somewhere Over The Rainbow by the Hawaiian guy that died quite some time ago? Movies overplayed it, but I still consider it a very special song, from a distant time and pl...
Edward O'Kelly Week in anticlimatic
Jumped into a fresh job site this week, new home construction, first whole-house I’ve had a chance to do since late last summer. Now that the three month solo grind of carrying hoses up and down...
Lullaby For Sleeping in anticlimatic
Winter Evening Stroll in anticlimatic
Sinking Season in anticlimatic
Someone once said that “time is a flat circle.” That it’s essentially an illusion created by our subconsciousness to explain a part of our hardware that we can’t observe- like the built in egg t...
Godzilla Minus Fucking One in anticlimatic
I have been quietly obsessed with this movie for a year, I think, based on loose recommendations I read- but I avoided it, and spoilers, until I was able to watch it in the original Japanese a...
I Remember You Well In The Chippewa Hotel in anticlimatic
I was listening to Chelsea Hotel while I was working on this little trip back to the 1960s: That square turd of a brutalist brown brick shitbox has been there my entire life. I had no idea th...
Darkness in anticlimatic
Drove to work this morning completely in the pre-dawn dark, though dark blue was creeping over the black by the time I rolled past the church into town. I was feeling a bit uneasy with it. Somet...
Lyrics That Slay in anticlimatic
The reverence I have for art is similar to the reverence I have for science. Both are rooted in a fascination with the heights of power the human spirit can achieve through accurately perceiving...
Why We Fight in anticlimatic
I was there, Gandalf. 25 years ago, I was there. When the strength of men prevailed. Right around the time I was preparing to graduate high school rumors grew of a shadow in the east. Whispers,...
The respect of men in anticlimatic
I can’t convey in words how surprised I am with how much I enjoy my job, this holiday season in particular. Now that I have had a couple years of more or less routine to get me off the panic bus...
Eight miles out of Memphis and I've got no spare. in anticlimatic
Eight miles, straight up, downtown somewhere. That’s Kenny Rogers, in case you were wondering. Might remember it from The Big Lebowski. I remember it from the radio in my dad’s truck in the 80s...
Christmas Creeps in anticlimatic
The creeps have blown in with this blizzard. My mother, who is mostly estranged to me now since remarrying and suddenly acquiring four new grandkids to have REAL fun with, just canceled Christm...
I Like The Old Ones in anticlimatic
....be they Lovecraftian Gods, or Christmas carols. This song has roots as early as the 8th century, and there is something about it relative to the story of Christmas that does it for me. ...
Devastating Deliveries (unpacked) in anticlimatic
Thanks for always being there, Doc. This is not a reference to Doc Brown, although the scene where Marty thanks Doc and they hug at the end of the first one, outside the clock tower, is one of ...
Devastating Deliveries in anticlimatic
What are some lines from popular cinema that have flattened you, emotionally? Some of mine, in no particular order or context: (win one point for each movie recognized) Thanks for always being...
Artists Pair Better With Poor People in anticlimatic
They just do, in every way. Not to be confused with talented people (and not to presume they are mutually exclusive), who benefit very much from being around people who are in positions to elev...
November Scaries in anticlimatic
I can’t shake the creeps. They come in a variety of forms; a handful of concepts. Memories seem further away than they aught to be. Or maybe they just felt closer than they should have up until...
And Don't Time Change Those Inclined in anticlimatic
…to think less of what is written, than what’s wrote between the lines. I find myself in the most ethereal place, mentally. A touch of psychosis. Slippage. Like I’m floating above a city I coul...
The Midnight Sun in anticlimatic
On the list of genuinely terrifying episodes of The Twilight Zone, number 1 for me is The Midnight Sun. The basic premise is that earth has been knocked slightly off of it’s orbit to the sun, ...
Some Friendly Advice in anticlimatic
Assume everyone likes you, but don’t count on it. Never try to leverage someone’s feelings for you into doing or giving you things. If you need something from someone that you don’t have, offe...
Mermaid Avenue in anticlimatic
Up until a few days ago I was using Youtube on my phone (not even the App, the website via Safari) for all of my music and podcast needs. Like a fucking animal. Fortunately, I discovered Spo...
What am I going to do when I run out of old men? in anticlimatic
I know I say this like once a week, but I just can’t with my own generation. Millennials, to me, are a people largely broken- mentally, spiritually, emotionally- yet they have great taste in t...
Do ghosts haunt the highway, or does the highway haunt me? in anticlimatic
It was deliciously warm last night so I took advantage. Set out around 9:00pm and pedaled my bicycle through the long series of parking lots behind the storefronts on the west side of town. Be...
