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I Believe... [Survival is like Nipple Glue]
...that the daily battle between plodding through each day to survive on most levels and motivating yourself to do better, be better, is like nipple glue on the pastie of an athletic burlesque performer—barely hanging on from dance to dance.
The Mental Health Conditioning of WandaVision
WandaVision has ended. The ninth and final episode is currently streaming on Disney+. As of this writing, I have not watched it. But, boy am I excited to. I’ve been waiting since mid-January to watch this series finale. The slow burn of the whole thing with its clever clues and nerd-gasm Easter eggs… And what a wait it’s been.
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of February 28, 2021
People who post spoilers about a show or a movie with twenty-four hours of its premiere are as bad as Ted Cruz.
Live Free, Die Texan!
If you contract COVID and the hospital is full, don’t be a baby about it.
Requiem for a Bartender
Steve ran the joint. Tending bar was the family business. His father, Tom, ran it the generation before mine. Steve and I became fast friends. That’s the bartender’s job, after all—to befriend their loyal patrons. But I was also young, boiling over with energy, and thirsty to learn the ways of drinking legally in public. Steve gave me, gave so many of us that arena.
Hey, Kid, Catch The Ball
If we didn’t play ball in the alleys, we played pinners against the front-stoop with a pinkie or fastpitch against the factory wall. What we didn’t want to do is hit our only league into the yard of Mr. Hardwick, who had Baron, the meanest German Shepard you could imagine on patrol. Baron drooled with desire when he saw us come near, the dream of tearing off a piece of our skin or even a finger or two making him crazy.
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I Believe… [A Potato Has No Gender, Idiots]
I believe… that if the renaming of “Mr. Potatohead” to “Potatohead” is the hill you’re going to die on, you may need to get some sort of professional evaluation.
Dear Don (both of you; all of you)
Crime has never stopped paying. How naïve I have been all my life thinking that one day it would…not pay.
Advice Unsolicited | Offense Is Definitely a Choice
First things first. It is and has always been a choice to take offense or not.
ALWAYS.
Your aunt has chosen to not be offended by a word that has become weapon used. You have chosen to be offended. Likewise, your aunt has chosen to be offended by being lectured and you choose to be offended that she is offended by your lecturing.
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of February 21, 2021
I get really happy when religious leaders do the right thing. A sign of this is often when the flock gets really upset at their leader.
How Free is Our Speech and Who Decides?
These days political thought is indistinguishable from religious rhetoric. So many looking to assert the moral ground upon which we all must stand or be banished. The mistake made is to embrace the idea that the digital space is real life or even matters that much.
Upon This Hill I Shall Die, America!
We, the true chosen-by-God followers of our chosen-by-God president are taking our chosen-by-God country back!
Why Can't We Just Share the Last Slice of Pizza?
No, it is neither race nor gender that is the engine of inequity. It’s almost entirely economic class.
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I Believe... [Rush Who?]
I believe... that hearing that Rush Limbaugh has passed on affects me much in the same way as when I hear about someone I heard yelling about something once in a high school auditorium and then promptly blocked the memory from existence.
Night Out, 2025
Is it Friday? A day hazing over fast into the good long while of night. Both are so happy to have had themselves. To have been connected.
This was an age after the rooftop days were over. Removed and exposed from the vantage of twenty-or-more stories.
How Zero Tolerance Policies in the 1990s Caused Our Modern Puritanism
Isabella would be roughly thirty-six years old now and would classify as a Millennial. Her kids are the pro typical Gen Z crowd. Both she and her kids seem to operate still with this zero tolerance policy in mind. They have become the hall monitors for their collegiate experience, the snitches of social media, and the ‘Karens’ of every Walmart and Starbucks in America.
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of February 14, 2021
Poor white people love people like Trump because they’re two sides of the same coin. They both live completely sheltered lives and both believe the lie of American Exceptionalism. The wealthier side of the coin believes that they were born into that exceptionalism because they deserved it and the poorer side believes that one day, they, too will be exceptional.
The Blessing: A Novel Excerpt
Today Sol will either die or be Blessed with magic. It all depends on the quality of her sacrifice.
Please enjoy Chapter One of my current project, Scorned.
New Pandemic Toys for Kids!
Speak ‘n’ Spell ‘n’ Eat or Die Spell words correctly and get a small meal-replacement treat.
Wandavision is the Most Woke Television Program in History
Granted, as of this writing, only six episodes have been aired. Likewise granted, given my immense love for all things Marvel, I’m loving every second.
One of the big questions of the chattering class is Who is the Big Bad?
Andy was good at his job. And for a nine-month-old baby, he was really good at it.