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Choices in this life often quite difficult. It's rare that you're simply presented with a knob whose only two positions are "Make History" and "Flee Your Glorious Destiny." -
Writer's Block: Remembering mom
When I was 11 I lived half of my weeks with my Mother in a small apartment in St. Augustine. She had just ended a four year relationship with her former campaign manager, Diane, and was burning the wick at both ends doing freelance writing to make ends meet. I made dinner most nights. Simple stuff since I wasn't allowed to use the stove. Most ( Read more... ) -
What happens in Vegas...
It has been said countless times by myself and others who know me well that the day I step foot upon the glittering streets and take one breath of it's air my life will be counted in hours. Today I have seen the agent that will bring about this end someday. We faced each other across a formidable distance. I knew this spectre could see me not, ( Read more... ) -
Agent Orange for Dummies
I've been gardening a lot lately. A lot of people will be shocked by this as I am know to scorn sunlight and the outdoors with the kind of fanatical hatred that some people lump on the Nazi's or Microsoft. However recently a lot of my time has been taken up with the digging and refilling of holes and trenches in blistering direct sunshine a la " ( Read more... ) -
A bit o nostalgia
It was the best show ever made about anything ever and they canceled it. take a trip back with me and run this intro over and over again until the song becomes the only truth you know ( Read more... ) -
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The piece of meat was pink and puckered on one end like a would as I took the knife across it making millimeter-thick slices across. I laid these on a slice of bread lathered in mustard and placed another slice on top ( Read more... ) -
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As I was waking up this morning a little voice in my head yelled at me to stop trying because I was past the useful end of the bell curve for the velocity of sucess. The voice then went on to explain that this is the measure of your inertia moving towards success, riches and the right to breed with a choice partner. Since I am past the point in ( Read more... ) -
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I just found out that the bottom has dropped out of blackmarket kidneys. I'd be lucky to get three grand for mine. The current top organs are heart, lungs and ovaries. Since I need one of those to live, another is ruined by a decade of smoking then that just leaves the one that I don't have because my father, who had nothing but daughters before ( Read more... ) -
Buddha was wrong
All life is not suffering. Sometimes there's partying and makeouts and marijuana. Not lately though. However it is paper recycling day, which means putting lots of prepaid business reply labels on boxes of shredded bank statements and mailing them back to Ohio. I heard they have a daily recycling pickup at the mail sorting center in Ohio. This ( Read more... ) -
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Someone just called me the Picasso of pissing people off. I told him he was the Three Stooges of making metaphors.
Fucking cubism.