“A man’s subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.”
P. G. Wodehouse
Jan
24
After so many years of writing whatever comes into my head, there have been a few times where those thoughts have been less than even-tempered. Some might categorize them as rants. Some of them are embarrassing, some of them I’m not particularly proud of, but all of them came from the same angry/impotent place. Starting […]
Jan
25
(originally posted 10/13/2014. For some reason it has been getting a lot of visits the last few months so I am re-posting it to bask/wallow in my impotent, self-righteous anger for awhile.) Have you ever heard the expression “You couldn’t make up something like this”? Sometimes it’s “You would never want to make up […]
Jan
24
(posted 11/30/2013…. occasionally I like to look back at how right I was about this country. Nothing has changed and Jameis is rich and famous and playing for an NFL team. Does the #metoo movement care? I never heard a peep from them.) (*This story was removed this morning from the MTR Media sports site […]
Jan
23
(first appeared at runningoutofink.com on 4/1/2013) This story takes place where all great stories take place. Nevada. In the sleepy little town of Johnsonville, not too terribly far away from Reno. You might wonder how a town that has a disproportionately large number of prostitutes can be sleepy but I assure you, it’s sleepy. […]
Jan
22
(originally posted 5/31/2018) He moved into the house freshman year of high school. The tree was already grown enough to sit outside his second story bedroom window. When it was windy it would scratch the siding and when he’d seen a scary movie it would throw shadows in his room and make it difficult […]
Jan
21
(originally posted 6/6/2018) Perhaps Freud got it wrong. Of course, he’d never met Dustin. Neither have you but that’s about to change. Afterwards you might sit contemplating the id, the ego, the super ego and, perhaps, the alter ego. Out of nowhere evolution took a giant leap with Dustin. His musculature was unique. Improved. […]
