It was at that moment that the concept, the essence, the idea of the physical phenomenon known as my face began to submerge under the waves of pain, ripples flowing in reverse toward the impact of the pebble, the balled mass of flesh and bone with a torso behind it to lend the weight of …
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To-Do Lists
Things I did this weekend: Picked up some parts from the Honda dealer, got some much-needed tools to add to my collection, and replaced a plastic cap on my engine valve casing that’s been leaking oil for the past 2 years. It was an easy repair, but had a high risk of going bad (which …
Intractible
Picked up Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”. Got through the introduction. Sounds like an interesting book. A friend is having me assemble an audio track for his mostly-silent short film. We have some great ideas. I have several short stories that are in the works. One is mostly finished towards a second draft, the others …
Deface
I don’t know about you guys, but part of me is getting turned off by this social media thing. Law of diminishing returns, I guess. I mean, I like keeping in touch with the people I know from near to far, from now to then, but it goes with the territory that reading up on …
Squint
Find myself gravitating to stasis. Baseline. Flatline. Same old. Same grind, same rut, same accidental friends. Like a gaggle of bar flies you see at the same dive every night. Talking about being and going and wanting and living, but never really doing it. Just surviving on the stories of strangers. Shit, maybe that’s just …