Monthly Archives: May 2017

Occasionally you will add a word to that story you are composing, that thing that you devote yourself to, your nominal reason for being. It will be a good word or an uncertain one that will be replaced back and … Continue reading →

I may not know dick but I do know just a little about him. Dick Shawn, late comedian, is no relation to Wallace Shawn, who starred in the inconceivably big hit My Dinner With Andre. Dick Shawn is also nothing … Continue reading →

I still can’t decide if I did the right thing by cutting class when I realized before entering the room Mrs. Hanratty was subbing in Biology and spun around and on my way. Missus H is awful and incompetent and … Continue reading →

I am absolutely worried about the economy, sure, and the sorry state of the constitution and equal rights – all that kind of stuff – but the real thing that keeps me up at nights is a substantiated fear that … Continue reading →

There’s nothing in the tank. You squandered your resources ignored the warning signs and now, finally, at the last, you’re working off of fumes and you’re getting nowhere. You’re gonna crash any minute, just stop short and any momentum you … Continue reading →

Where have all the Tad’s Steaks gone? We went there sometimes after school for a meal of meat we could well afford. I would try to get everyone to go far more often than they seemed to want. Perhaps my … Continue reading →

In the throes of last night amongst the drinks and dinner I vaguely recall part of a dangerously earnest conversation. Let me first apologize for anything honest I might have admitted. We can assume in the stark light of day … Continue reading →

You know that thing where you’re a little proud of some kind of an accomplishment but it’s really a kinda small accomplishment that if you tell anyone about it you’re just opening yourself up for humiliation since it was the … Continue reading →

Can you guys just cut the shit and admit that you’ve split up already? I respect your privacy and all but the tension between you is something thick, dark and ridiculous. The stink of death on your relationship is pretty … Continue reading →

Take the stupid solace that you can that it could be worse that the suffering will end that there may well be some better world to head to after this one – even without NASA’s half-assed help. Swallow the insipid … Continue reading →