Category: Commentary

• Bowie’s Buddha Waffle

  23 Jul 2022

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  I was lying in my bed looking at the white ceiling and listening to the sounds coming from the box fans we have in our room. Neither myself nor my wife can sleep without the sound of the fans. It’s been like that for a very, very long time. Dead…

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  + Art and Music, Commentary, Personal Essay, Social Comm

  + Buddha, David Bowie, Documentary, Gun Control, Music, Uvalde, Waffles

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• Have you heard of not peddling religious texts in a public library?

  11 Jul 2022

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  So, yes, yet again, I was at the damn public library trying to get some writing done. If you are familiar with my other library rants, you’ll know I always seem to run into some kind of trouble or annoying distraction at my local library. Well today was no different…

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  + Commentary, Personal Essay, Religion, Social Comm

  + Book Sale, Cereal After Sex, Happy Days, Library, Missionary, Ralph Malph, Religious Books

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• Born on the Fourth of the Flies

  4 Jul 2022

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  In a pink and salty green desert town in one of the new states, adobe Spanish churches thrust their steeples heavenward, the tips vaporously scraping against the cold blue veil and its cotton-ball clouds glued there like a childhood art project about life. Down one of the hot, dry, and…

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  + Commentary, Dark Humor, Fact and Fiction, Short Fiction, Short Stories, Social Comm

  + Cookout, Fourth of July, Freedom, French Revolution, Immigration, Socialism, Uncle Sam, Vietnam War

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• Have you heard of a cereal bowl that isn’t the size of an ashtray?

  28 Jun 2022

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  I looked at her, pure beauty radiating in the neon glow of the high hotel. “You’re always the positive end of the battery,” I said. “Cereal trouble may have killed me by now if it weren’t for you.”

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  + Cereal, Commentary, Dark Humor, Personal Essay, Travel

  + Apple Jacks, Birthday, Cereal, Hotel, Milk, Suites

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• Have you heard of not being a racist ass clown?

  12 Jun 2022

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  Love is Love. And Hate is Hate. Which way are you going to go? How are you going to get to the disco? In a limo or a tank?

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  + Commentary, Have You Heard Of?, Personal Essay, Social Comm

  + Coeur d'Alene, Hate Group, Idaho, Justice, Liberty, Riot, U-Haul, White Supremacy

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