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  • That’s How I’m Feeling

    That’s How I’m Feeling

    I am honestly fairly drained from the events of this month, although I have a certain sane spring in my step again (intentional alliteration). December was s’posed to be great, I thought, but it went a little bit pear-shaped for a confluence of reasons. That’s okay. It all ended up working out for the better,…

  • Sunset Beach, December 19th, 2025

    Sunset Beach, December 19th, 2025

    My forties.

  • Cultural Hegemony

    Cultural Hegemony

    “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” -Antonio Gramsci …and then, of course, there’s: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” –William Butler Yeats I now want to share a music video that is better than…

  • Hang Down Your Head

    Hang Down Your Head

    Tom waits for nobody. This song has been in my brain for a few days, so I figured the best way to purge it is to share it. I’ve always been a Tom Waits fan–and I do mean since my pre-teen years, when a colleague of my father (father’s? Whatever, carry on) gave him the…

  • Happy Sagittarius.

    Happy Sagittarius.

    Cookin’ and countin’ down to 50 years old. Just a few more weeks now… We are indeed officially in the month of the archer, which is my sign, which is always a pretty terrific time of year for one and all. Between the burning-a-hole-into-you intensity of Scorpio and the stick-in-the-mud seriousness of Capricorn lies the…