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Get Your Own Reality 26 Jul 2013 | 01:20 pm
Before my overdue fees became equal to the price of the book itself, I wanted to share a passage from Saul Bellow's "The Adventures of Augie March": Saul Bellow "It wasn't right to think everyone el...
Cutting Edges 8 Jul 2013 | 08:01 am
In one of my favorite old movie quotes, the neighbors get together for the typically awkward block party/cookout, and the established neighbor says to the new neighbor "There are two things I admire a...
Instant Irrelevancy 2 Jul 2013 | 08:40 am
Not the "Slow Death Funnies" that we used to read back in the day, but the blog. It has been suffering, thanks in part to the iPad, which I find very unfriendly to my specific format of composing. And...
108 Miles of Solitude 10 Jun 2013 | 08:25 am
Some time ago I read Marquez' 100 Years of Solitude. A pretty good read if you can get by 5 generations of characters all named Jose Arcadio Buendia or some combination thereof. Occasionally I can sti...
Glory Days 8 Apr 2013 | 05:43 am
Reporting out that today was just a fantastic day in Virginia. The weather was sunny and the humidity low. Spring is just around the corner. The march of the grape hyacinths continues, the daffodils a...
More on Lions and Winter 18 Mar 2013 | 05:12 am
When Mick Jagger first uttered "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" he was in fact summarizing the rally cry of all humankind, from time immemorial. Well, most of us anyway. First we had to choose to survive...
Flash-over 20 Jan 2013 | 11:37 pm
In the dream I awake to be cruising above the earth at a speed something like that of a traffic report. I have a vague awareness that I am out west. The town is Anywhere. Altitude is steady. There is ...
Bring It On 31 Dec 2012 | 01:35 am
When margarine first burst onto the scene back in the day, it came along with a series of catchy (lame) commercials wherein Mother Nature gets pissed off after being fooled into thinking she was tasti...
Life Cycling 3 Dec 2012 | 06:38 am
We have new addition to the family. A 12-week old Borador that we named Panda. Caring for her over the last few days, I have observed a basic life cycle: Bowl. Ball. Bed. Repeat. This occurs about 3 t...
Matters of Life and Death 28 Oct 2012 | 08:30 am
Does absence make the heart grow fonder? Let us hope so, for it has been some time since Your Humble Narrator has offered a post. It's not like I've been working on anything important. According to a...
