(55 years ago)

“Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Dec
30

New Year’s Eve Playlist 2025

A few songs to ring in the new year…   Freelance Whales – Starring This is me starring In a stranger’s nightmare   Noah Kahan – Stick Season And I’ll dream each night of some version of you That I might not have, but I did not lose   Bon Iver – S P E […]

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Apr
26

the stupid crap I think about

(originally posted 1/8/2018)   Watching my dog poop got me to thinking about time travel. Really. I don’t claim to understand how the brain works but there I was looking at my dog poop and it suddenly hit me … humans are the only animal that has to wipe. Dogs. Birds. Even snakes go to […]

Apr
25

15 minutes of wasted sun on my face

(originally posted 8/8/2015)   Every now and again I feel the urge to write about writing. Don’t worry, this isn’t one of the articles where a writer you’ve never heard of gives tips on how to be a well-known writer. If anything, this is an article giving tips on how to stay unknown and why […]

Apr
24

Why I’m Not Successful as a Writer

(originally posted 1/23/2018)   The question of why I’m not successful as a writer is an easy one to answer really. And it goes well beyond my inability to know if you capitalize the “as” in the title Why I’m Not Successful as a Writer. It’s because I’m unlikable as a person. Truly unlikeable. To know […]

Apr
23

reflectivity

(first appeared in The Subterranean Quarterly April 2013)   It was the blue jumpsuit that gave him away. He was from the Recollections Department and he was here for one of my memories. I knew which one and he was welcome to it. I don’t think I’d thought about it in years and that wasn’t […]

Apr
22

pulling out my Longfellow

(Originally posted 2/5/2013… which was eight years before Client’s last movie Cry Macho. Don’t even get me started on how I felt watching that one…)   Sometimes when you start off a thought or conversation with the words “it’s funny” you don’t mean it at all but you don’t know how else to introduce the […]

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