Grumblecakes. There are mice in my apartment. Do you know how debasing that is? It’s nothing I did; they just found a way inside my living space. Found they had widened a hole behind the stove where the power cable busts through. Noticed droppings scattered around my apartment last week, even some spots in my …
Category Archives: Miscellany
Motor
People without opinions and agendas are boring. You cannot summon any sort of affiliation or hatred of them. No force, no electricity. I say this not as a drop of wisdom in a sea of bullshit. I say this as a reflection. Some day, I’ll commit to feeling something about anything. Magnetic polarities are essential …
Unlimited Vistas for a Limited Horizon
Since I’ve moved from my hometown, I’ve gone on sneering rants about how much the people in my home town are in a bubble, how if it’s not within the Texarkana city limits or anywhere within the two neighboring counties, they just don’t care to know about it. Selective myopia, small lives, out-of-sight out-of-mind, and …
Uncheap
So the new Rush album, “Clockwork Angels” was released today to the North American market. After work, I stopped by Cheapo CDs on Lamar to pick up a copy. After scanning the bins, I asked the guy if he had it in stock. “No, we don’t have it, sorry.” I laughed incredulously, “Really?” “Yeah, it’s …
Avoiding the Disease
My dream this morning was a contagion/zombie movie. It went on longer than any dream should naturally persist. Usually my dreams are random vignettes that morph into each other; this one was different in its thematic tenacity. We’ve all seen zombie movies. A germ spreads through contact from infected people to new hosts. Social interactions …