A list of scary things (according to me)

In honor of Hallowe’en I would like to offer you the following list of things that scare me.  Please do not use this list in order to inflict emotional torture on me, that would be an abuse of the unspoken trust we bestow upon each other as users of the internet
Things that scare me (in [...]

Five Twelthes

As of today, it has been five months since I have touched a cigraette.  Wait.  I take that back.  There was one night when I held on to an unlit cigarette just to let my hands have the sensation. I did not light it, I did not smoke it, but I did touch it.  Except for [...]

Poetry, for a change

I know it is Autumn and this poem is about the spring, but I thought of it today while I was walking across the park to my bus stop.  I think because the trees were bright reds and golds and that made me think about William Blake seeing angels (which he did in the park [...]

More romance, yo

A new book has been covered at 365 Days of Heaving Bosoms.
Coming soon, a pirate book.
Avast.

Search Terms and Literary Help

Today someone found this very site with the following search terms:
is he a reliable narrator – on the road
Here’s a little free help for you, friend.
Oh my god, dude, no, he’s not.  He’s drunk for, like, the whole book.  Probably high too.  Sal Paradise is maybe the least reliable narrator ever.  Happily this does not [...]

Something Wonderful

Wow!
I was looking at Sweet Juniper to see if he had posted any new street urchins and that lead to the recently discovered work of Vivian Maier at that first link above. 
Look at it.  It’s so very worth it.  Some of these have made me lose my breath.  I absolutely can not wait to see [...]

I don’t know why

but I signed up for Twitter this morning.  I’m blaming Tracy Morgan for starting up an account because I want to follow him and his thoughts. 
Tracy Morgan is funny.  This is a true fact of the highest order.
So you can follow me if you want.  I’m planning to use it mostly for lies, hence the [...]

Well, hey

Look at me being timely without realising it:
Jack died 40 years ago today.
Guess that’s probably why the documentary and album are just now being released

Hey, Jack Kerouac

So yesterday I read this album review and then this morning I used Spotify to listen to the actual album by Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard.  It should surprise no one who knows me that I liked it for a variety of reasons. 

Songs based on a Kerouac novel?  Yes, please!
Folksy countryish songs based on a Kerouac novel?  [...]

The Bounties of the Internet

So do you know what happens when you Google your dad’s HAM radio call?  Assuming your dad, like mine, is a HAM radio operator?  This is what happens, you find an awesome photo of your parents from 1978 when they were on vacation in Montserrat (She’s in the sun dress, he’s the one with the grey [...]