I want to get this down before I forget it.  I dreamt I was back in school & had four different thesis papers due... & I had nothing. Dreams don't stick with me so much, but I think the best I had was rough ideas. All around me, people - the usual mix of childhood … Continue reading Saturday, September 28, 2019 →

Slow day & too damn hot. I'm wired &... irritated, so let's do what we can before supper comes. Today was supposed to be the last visit with the Dental Hygienist for at least a year but she had to cancel, so I wound up sleeping most of the day. Felt out of sorts & … Continue reading Friday, September 27, 2019 →

The last couple of days have been hectic, & honestly, friends & neighbors? I'm tired. So we're just going to Fill Up Space here to keep the chops up & call it a night. I am wired & inspired, so let's go. Main thing is I had the Crash. See, when my sleeping habits are disrupted, my internal … Continue reading Thursday, September 26, 2019 →

Man, I'm tired. It's almost like having a news hangover.  We're still reeling from yesterday's megaton political bomb. To bring us all up to speed, the Trump Administration released a memorandum - not a transcript - of the phone call with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that's at the middle of this kerfuffle. Trump has given a rambling interview with … Continue reading Wednesday, September 25, 2019 →

"The Boss was a certified monster who deserved to be impeached & banished. He was a truthless creature - a foul human monument to corruption & depravity on a scale that dwarfs any other public official in American history." - Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom Of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days … Continue reading Tuesday, September 24, 2019 →

I've been on a weird Beatles kick lately. What's weird about it is I never used to like the Beatles. Indeed, when pressed, I was openly contemptuous of the band, preferring the Rolling Stones in that little argument. Nowadays, after the crap that's been their last couple records (and especially Mick Jagger's tedious solo Goddess In … Continue reading Monday, September 23, 2019 →