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World of Beauty
Sorry folks. Sometimes life is just shitty. You know the drill. I'll be writing once again soon enough, I'm sure. On the reg, as the kids say. Soon as I get my wind. I love not needing to write in...
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Chicken Shack
I've been asked what sort of factory I work in. I don't want to negate my nondisclosure agreement, so all I can say is that it is fairly high tech. The people who work for me are in the instruction...
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Cold Moon Friday 13th Birthday
Yesterday was my mother's birthday, a Friday the 13th full moon. They call it The Cold Moon, but it was anything but that here. The day was gray and gloomy and warm. I took flowers and a card and...
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Mercy
Sunday. The good, lovely weather is back. Now it is a matter of what one can do with it. This photo is from Detroit City. The weather was not lovely. I learned, however, where they hide the...
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Oops
I should have posted this yesterday.Sunday leaks into Monday. I must go to work today. They still own me. . . somewhat. I have obligations that consume even my vacation days. C'est la vie.Here are...
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News
There is an Impeach Trump rally here today. It is going to rain. I wanted to go and take photographs, but I am old and lazy and don't want to go out in bad weather. What a show. Is it making CNN...
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Impeachment Eve
It was the night before Impeachment, And all through the House. . . .You can finish the poem as you like. I didn't make it to the Fuck Trump rally. It rained. I wonder how it went? I'm pretty sure...
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What Old People Do
Voted one of the best book covers of the year by the N.Y. Times. You're welcome.No factory today. It is clear and cold. I went to my bosses holiday party last night. I stayed for about an hour....
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Postmodern President
(1978)I'm writing this from the hipster coffee bar after having done just what I told you I would do. I went to the gym, then lay poolside for about half an hour getting some Vitamin D. Then I went...
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Harry Potter and the Man in a Dress
Just adding this to today's post. Postmodern/Poststructural (link). Here are the Cliff's Notes on the article if you don't wish to read the entire thing. The researcher, Maya Forstater, lost her job...
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A Short Winter's Day
Shortest day. Winter Solstice. I've written about it so many times before. I like these transcendental recurring moments. Ritual. They seem to be coming about more quickly, though. I can't quite...
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Christmas Mall Way Back
Christmas shopping at the mall, 1975. I swear, the girl in the halter top is barefoot. I hate Christmas shopping. But in 1975, malls were a newish thing, and they seemed fun. There was a Mr....
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Sideways
Christmas has kind of gone sideways for me. It is starting to look like so many I've had before. Selavy. I don't think I'm a bad guy, but I may not be the best judge of that. I'll leave it to the...
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Nothing Quite Like
There is nothing quite like the intro to Sinatra's "Summer Wind." Try the first twenty seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqISqqbMhls
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Yule
It is six a.m. on Christmas Eve, and I've been up for an hour. It is still as dark as it was when I got up. I've been sleeping past sunrise "on the reg," as the kids like to say, but I guess some...
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Eve
I'm not sure Santa is going to make it to my house this year, but it's o.k. I'm at my mother's for the eve. I did get a text from one of the miscreants to come meet for drinks on the Boulevard, and...
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The Day Itself
And so the day itself arrives. Gifts are opened, breakfasts consumed. . . and there is the wait for Christmas dinner. Some are smoking it up, some are drinking, and the kids are playing computer...
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The Best of Everything
The day is done. It is over. There is no looking back. Or so Faulkner might have said, only in the past tense. I spent a pleasant day with my mother. In the morning, we opened our presents and then...
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Crumb
Jesus Christ! Robert Crumb. I watched this last night on YouTube (link). If you don't know Crumb or his work, you must first watch this (link). I haven't watched it for many, many years, but I...
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Gloomy
My emotions are considerably tied to the weather. I often don't do well with gloomy days. It has been gloomy here for quite a spell now. Gloom seeps into my pores and into my bones. I am gloomy....
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