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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Speech and call and response

Aretha¹: Eric: She good. Me: MMMmm-hmm Similarly huddled woman to my right: Smile, quiet laugh Criticisms² of the speech garner my response below: I can’t really disagree that the speech wasn’t some soaring arc, but to say it wasn’t what the crowd wanted seems really arrogant. Can you truly speak for 1.8 million people? You [...]

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Unfortunate associations

As I sat in a Barcalounger, feet up as instructed, watching the little drops drip through the clear plastic container, and head into the canula in my hand, I was still lucid. As such I noticed the music playing was radio, rather than satellite and it had the nicely generic WASH-FM, a sort of light [...]

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This way or that? No!

Instead of listening to rallies and speeches I listen to a modern bard of our times, or perhaps my times, not yours. Thåström has always taken the age and distilled it to music, and still managed to critique it. In his later years he has become less ideological and yet still unchanging in perspective. A [...]

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