Pieces – Nov 10

There are probably 3 people besides myself with beards on base. There’s the porn ’stache contingent, like something out of Tales of the City, the guys who look out of place in them, in their flight suits the colored of the most abundant resource around these parts. There’s the 5 o’clock shadow contingent, the slightly [...]

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“Trop Bureau” catch up

I’m finally catching up with the rest of the world, or at least part of the US and every awards show for the last 3 years: I’m watching Mad Men from the beginning. Nothing to say beyond what has been said, though I’m not sure they ever imagined their shows being watched on a C-130 [...]

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Protected: (Mostly) Fun Fest

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Protected: Maragret Mead never had it so hard

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21 Days Out

In my backpack there is a slim yellow folder bearing a simple sheet full of boxes with initials, dates, my own name in reverse order and one big grey stamp that reads DEPLOYABLE. I haven’t moved it yet, filed it away as I ought to, or even sorted its documents, though I have inspected the [...]

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OBE is not an option

There are two events of note this weekend, one a staple of life that signals the opening of summer and a parade of other people’s memories, and the other a one time event which is noteworthy because it will be my memory.
The first is Rolling Thunder, which runs through the weekend, where motorcycle riding veterans [...]

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Dodging raindrops no more

I can walk without feeling flustered in the rain now, or at least attain acceptance of the state much more quickly. Before I had to stop when in a dry place, wipe my glasses, and hope it was dry when I got back out, or that the cloth would miraculously dry before then.
I did [...]

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We were never…

Saturday: An evening that began with a Crack and ended with a warm cab ride home was well worth the effort of going. Certainly there were a few people whose constant annoyance was as natural as their breathing but they left before the roller skates of the Xanadu parody closed out the show, and we [...]

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Protected: Work and death are mutually exclusive and only rarely otherwise

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“Far”

Down the Dulles toll road, past the big names of our modern age, and dotted with trees of white flowers in full bloom, this second day of April. The chill there, but outside the windows, making the world outside desirable and still forbidding.
It’s still a no man’s land in some ways, still too far. [...]

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