Sunday, December 30, 2018
Monday, December 17, 2018
Saturday, December 15, 2018
Shards of Peppermint
The human tongue has a rich complexity. Bitterness is detected in the back, near the precipice of the throat, where darkness falls into the depth of the body.
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Monday, December 10, 2018
President Bonehead Got One Thing Right
Bush privatized the aftermath with his golfing buddies from Blackwater and Halliburton. These firms got filthy rich from the massacre.
America's De Facto Secretary of State Breaking Bread with a Murderer
Thursday, December 6, 2018
A Vulgar Celebration
Vladimir Putin and Mohammad Bin Salman celebrate the murder of U.S. resident, Jamal Khashoggi, who Donald Trump referred to as enemy of the state.
Sunday, December 2, 2018
Sunday, November 25, 2018
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Washington Post Columnist, Jamal Khashoggi - "Enemy of the People"
One of Trump's "enemy of the people" is murdered by our ally, Saudi Arabia. An ancillary result from Americans hobnobbing with the backward custodians of fossil fuel.
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Jethro Tull - Aqualung (Live At Montreux 2003)
I saw these cats perform in Nashville around 1980, '81. Our motor blew up and I hitch-hiked back home thanks to the kindness of strangers.
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Monday, September 10, 2018
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Gwyneth Paltrow - Fraudstress
Princess should be ashamed of herself. At least she was unconsciously right-on with the name of her snake oil: "goop." Rich, feckless, and stupid.
Sunday, September 2, 2018
Friday, August 24, 2018
John Hartford - Gentle on my mind 1977
Although the late Glen Campbell recorded this song for the masses, John Hartford actually wrote it. Gentle on My Mind has some of the finest assembly of lyrics I've ever heard.
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
Friday, August 17, 2018
Saturday, August 11, 2018
Roundup - The Beginning of the End to this Toxic Concoction that Causes Cancer
A California jury has returned a $289-million-dollar verdict against the purveyors of this poison that now saturates the earth and its groundwater reserves in densely-populated areas of the country. Please sound the alarm and have this removed from the shelves immediately.
Thursday, August 2, 2018
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Saturday, July 28, 2018
Locke - Written and Directed by Steven Knight
The parallels drawn by this movie along the lives of complicated, 21st century men, are damn near perfectly aligned. Tom Hardy's monolithic performance was totally convincing. A wireless multitasking white male meets the consequences of his actions and manages to do the right thing, in relative terms, after an awful mistake. An excellent film.
Friday, June 22, 2018
Gregory Alan Isakov - The Stable Song - How'd She Know
A strange thing happened during the summer of 2018. I was drawn, mental pictures and all, to the Looking Glass Creek in Transylvania County, North Carolina, imbedded deep in the Pisgah National Forest, to a spot where I once played, just below Sliding Rock. I told my wife that I wanted to go there, so off we went. I drove so Stacey could have a beer on the way.
As we approached Highway 276, which would run parallel to the Looking Glass Creek, Stacey said, "this one's for Daddy," and played the Stable Song. I big fat tear rolled down the left side of my face, unbeknownst to Frank and Stacey. How'd she know?
Saturday, June 16, 2018
Addicts and Alcoholics
What separates addicts and alcoholics from the rest of society is their need to constantly adjust the thermostat on their consciousness in order to cope with their own vagaries. They are alcoholics and addicts because they have effectively lost control over their intake, called "unmanagability" in AA parlance. This naturally throws off balance their ability to make the thermostatic adjustments to their congnitive interactions with people, places, and things associated with this incremental life on planet earth. Probably has something to do with what's called, "affect." Who knows?
Sunday, June 3, 2018
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Mothers' Day, 2016
Happy Mothers' Day, Mom. I wish that I could have warned you that it would not end well. What difference would that have made, though? You wore yourself out. You harbored too may secrets for you consciousness to bear. Please note that I did not use the word conscience. The weight must have been tremendous. It was not necessarily your fault.
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Great cover of Walking on the Moon, by one of my favorite bands, the Police. This is a great song about falling in love.
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NPR did a piece called "This I Believe" a few years back. Listeners were invited to recite their core beliefs about anything...