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Out-Of-Context Theater.
“Must be related to Magnolia 2: Delmer Lives.” -
On Driving
Good: I didn’t get used to it ( Read more... ) -
That’s an option (heh, heh)
People smoke in Valet ( Read more... ) -
Conflation: thoughts prompted by “Pig” (2021)
Here I will discuss something pointless, which, hey, my blog, I say what I want. It’s about a very good film and a detail which is, it turns out, wrong. But, I think, interestingly wrong.
Nicolas Cage stars in Pig (2021). Pig both is excellent and sounds like a joke if you sum it up. Cage plays a retired gourmet chef living off the grid near ( Read more... ) -
A year of slow reading: 2023
This past year, I didn’t read much. More precisely, I didn’t finish much. I read slowly. In two cases, I read from long works and collections I know I won’t finish anytime soon; I’ve been working through the Arabian Nights, which is both fascinating and long. And in a year of medical issues, of finally (finally) working again and getting help ( Read more... ) -
New Year, new Out-Of-Context Theater.
“Waning Gibbous is in the Country Music Hall of Fame.” -
A small lesson, on this last day of 2023
This is on my mind for multiple reasons, a couple of which I won’t share, but it applies to me and to lots of people ( Read more... ) -
Meat-Ghost
Meat-Ghost
by Christopher Walsh, 11/13/2023Becoming a Meat-Ghost ( Read more... ) -
Be a gentle giant
Pickups. Sprinter vans. Vans (not as big as sprinter vans). Diesels. I had had, I think, no experience driving any of these before December 2018, when I started Valet at PDX. My folks had had a couple of pickups over the years; I never drove them. They got rid of their big-ass Ford LTD, what we called “the largest car in the world,” long before I’d ( Read more... ) -
I CAN WRUTE. WRITE, I MEAN. WRITE. (Damn you, misspelling.)
Random, huh? *grins*Saturday seemed like a good night to spend some time in a booth at the bar (Old Gilbert Road Tavern, a few blocks away), but I wanted to do more than have beer and eat. I wasn’t in the mood to read, yes it happens sometimes, and it was too late to watch college football, so…why not write ( Read more... )