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Category: TODAY

  • bang bang

    I am tired of "trigger warning" and "spoiler alert". I understand that they're meant to function as a courtesy and I generally applaud all such efforts, but I think they're massively overused AND this week I saw some people reprimanded for NOT using them, and I think we have officially landed on ridiculous. Let me…

  • still believe

    OKAY 10 MINUTES GO. I went to see a show last night (singer-songwriter cafe type of thing). The singer is a friend, I guess we're friends at this point. He helped me through a particularly bad patch in my life, gave me some personal insight and clarity over two cups of coffee, and I think…

  • balcony scene

    Good morning! (it is morning). The garbage trucks doing their stately roll down the street here at 7:30 a.m. Yesterday it was people mowing the little strips of grass in front of the building at 6 a.m. In both cases I was already awake, as the cat has not yet gotten the memo that SCHOOL'S…

  • Brno murders

    A family of four Brno citizens was murdered about 10 days ago. The funeral was on Saturday. Brno is a small town, so while I didn't know any of the victims personally, I know their neighbors and friends. A kid who played in the ukulele band with the father and son used to attend drama…

  • like a drunk but not

    On Wednesday it felt like a really truly spring day and I decided to resume walking, which I used to do in great gulps and enjoy, but I like it much less when the streets are icy, which they have been for about a year now I think. But now it is sunny again, and…

  • just saying

    People you should talk to about how your wife is not nice to you any more: your good friends your therapist a divorce lawyer People you should not talk to about how your wife is not nice to you any more:  a woman you are trying to hit on

  • nor whispers, nor witches, nor wandering stars

    I made a mental note to myself to write about… something today. It started with the letter W but I do not remember what it was. Not wisdom, weirdness, wallowing. Nor pussy willows, though I got a bouquet of them a few weeks ago and they sat on the end of the counter, mysterious and…

  • small pleasures

    The little ridges that form in a salt cellar, like sand dunes How easy it is to tie something behind my back, like an apron Finally learning how to play a chord, the soreness in my fingers the next day Sitting with our feet up on the couch, talking about the pros and cons of…

  • every good boy deserves

    Alligators, birthdays, cousins, drama, etc. Florida gets hot; i just knew love. Moaning never opens people quite realistically. Still, the undercurrent vibe was "xclnt' (youth zeitgeist). Well you know. I went to Florida for a while because it should be hot there. It was warm, which was almost as nice. Family stuff, shopping, lots of…

  • epiphany

    I'm realizing that although I am by most standards extremely privileged by accident I find myself more and more not consciously but almost instinctively disliking people who are… I guess MORE privileged. It's not ENVY, I don't think, or not exactly — I don't generally envy people their success or even luck; when a friend…