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author at large
there’s a book of poems out there with my name on it. few have read it fewer have bought it and fewer still knock on my door asking for it. by all accounts, this makes me an author (one of little success, but still) and has changed my outlook on this poetry game. for instance, [...]
Labels
Labels are an ugly thing. I’d say that seeing folks applying and affixing labels to others is a futile attempt to paint humanity in broad strokes, but we’ve shot beyond that now. It seems that the gut instinct of many in America is to grab ahold of a roller or paint sprayer and attempt to [...]
Sly Stallone Is My Soundgarden
All right folks, SAT time. Sylvester Stallone & 1980′s action movies : “Modern” action movies :: hair bands : ____________ ? If you filled “grunge bands” into the blank space… congratulations, you just wrote on your monitor. Go wipe it off. I’ll wait. Seems that Sly has a beef with a certain action flick from [...]
Banner Eighteen Will Have To Wait
Sports is an odd thing in that it conjures from what are normally rationally, sane, and emotionally stable human beings feelings that would, under different circumstances, land one in a padded cell with a neatly starched straitjacket. Take hatred and disappointment. In normal everyday life, I try as hard as possible to not use the [...]
Take me out to the ball game, take me out to crowd…
The irony of residing in Old Orchard Beach, Maine has never been lost on me. It goes deeper than the fact that, as a student at the University of New Hampshire that I regularly pelted Black Bear fans with various digs and insults during Hockey East battles – going so far as to write a [...]
Please don’t confuse fan of Apple with Apple Fanboy
It’s been a little over 5 years since I shunned the PC world and bought my first Apple, a G5 PowerMac. I say “first Apple” because there’s little doubt in my mind that, unless there’s a substantial drop in quality and/or service, I will buy another in the future. Of the computers I have owned [...]
One to start the day
Here I am, once again, keeping watch over midnight and writing to my heart’s content with nothing but the occasional car running by and the cat to keep me company. Looking through the files, here’s one from last year that I like but have to idea what to do with. Enjoy. jumprope and hop this [...]
Required Reading
Something to chew on today from a book I’m re-reading… Suppose you awoke one morning wit the uneasy feeling that the world had, while you slept, somehow slipped a-tilt and rose to find that your dresser drawers were mysteriously open a fraction of an inch and that prescription bottles had tipped over in the medicine [...]
Why I’m taking a weeklong vacation from Facebook.
Let me say this right up front – Facebook is one of the most frustrating things in my life at this point. It sucks up a lot of time, they keep mucking around with things, seem to have little regard for the actual preferences of their users (and instead rely on what they think their [...]
Are The Patriots Staying On 15?
As a football junkie, one of my daily rituals is reading through the Rumor Mill over at ProFootball Talk. It’s a sickness in many ways and has probably caused me as much pain and it has been educational. Of course, breaking even with anything these days is rare, so I suppose there’s not much to [...]
