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If John Rambo taught us anything, it was to respect the task at hand.
Most of my career has been work I’ve done either for free or dollars above minimum wage. This trend has seemed to have died off, but there are many forks in a road, and I’ve traveled down one long enough to see the abyss, the dead end – the empty bank account and credit card […]
All Forgiving Numbers
June 27, 2011
Dreams come in sparks. Ignition. Recoil. Wake. Someone dies, always, in dreams. He gives me his phone number and we talk. What we talk about are his dreams. Not dreams as in heartfelt fantasy, but his shut eyed coma-state. He’s on. “On” like a television is on. A radio. Human broadcast. “There is no future […]
Baseball, the last refuge for childhood idealism.
June 15, 2011
The world of sports is a strange place to look for heroes, and I’m not just talking about the money thing. I should be, but no – millions of dollars paid to a dude who can throw a ball really fast is none of my business. It makes a lot of money for some old […]
World Domination just sounds so boring.
June 13, 2011
Evil is an odd bird. The definitions we find are as vast as the examples of it. Evil remains intangible. It exists as a blackness that hangs; threatening. We have dictators committing genocide, flaunting their love of slaughter. Our world is rotten with murderers and other violent criminals full of narcissistic nihilism and the adoration […]
Sometimes you need to just get the hell out of town.
June 10, 2011
Summer is for vacation. We learn this as children. No school and no responsibilities so we leave home for weeks at a time. Growing up it meant my dad would load us into the van and we’d take to the road for week just driving through empty states, seeing bits and pieces of America.
Digital Trophies
June 28, 2011
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