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Being Driven Mad By Pain Doesn't Mean You're Crazy

Catchy title, eh?

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The Tallest Girl At The Dance

I am thinking this evening about women whose selves involve extremes, extremes that we can't do anything about, or can't easily do anything about, and how those extremes of our selves affect our lives....

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Sterile Cuckoo

I read "The Sterile Cuckoo," today.Y'all ever read John Nichols?I read it through. Quickly.

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I also want my life back

But it was mostly imaginary.The part with the great boyfriend and the meaningful work, and the life in the country.

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Why, oh why?

With apologies to Woody Guthrie, may he rest in peace, which he probably is not.

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Anonymous Defends Florida Homeless, FBI Investigates

FBI Investigates 'Anonymous' Hackershttp://www.wftv.com/...WFTV.com

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Who are the feral people?

I was recently asked by someone close to me, "Who were the feral people in your childhood?"That's a good and complicated question. One has to back off some from it. When is feral good, when is feral...

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Doves and Wasps

We have a lot of Texas doves here, whitewings some call them. Very common species. In the 13 years I've lived in Carlsbad, they appear to have heavily outcompeted the mourning doves (I'm guessing from...

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No Logo

Okay, I got slammed a lot here recently, and I'm seeing clearly that many of you are feeling hostile towards me.

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Serf's Up!

C'mon, let's get real here. We're getting crunched more and more into to tiny little boxes of poverty.

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Lost, lost, lost

this, that, and the other thing.

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Prurience, Modesty, and Alcohol

I was a shy kid. I occasionally made friends, but rarely alliances. Sex always seemed like an abstraction.

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Thoughts on Advice and Helping

I write here a lot about my personal life, and hence get a lot of advice. That’s understandable; humans do love to give advice; it makes us feel involved, and we like that.Nothing wrong there. But...

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Pineapple Salsa 2.0

With many thanks to everyone who gave me feedback on my last fruit salsa diary.

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again, needs music

So difficult. Love.

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Stuff From The Tubes

I was doing some email housecleaning this evening, and found some things of interest. Should you have missed them, here they are.

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Carlsbad Rains!

Right now. We has a little thunderstorm right down on top of us. A small one.The smell of the wet dust coming in through my window requires a word not in the language of me.Dust wet. Lightning flash....

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Big Thunder Sound

Big storm southeast of here. Around Loving, where are wells are.Cool. also other storms near.http://www.weather.com/...Night. Thunder! We may get it yet.Love to all. I am worn out and tired!oh, and it...

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Music Anybody?

Yo. I'm feeling worn out and vaguely sad, but still awake and I'm thinking about searching the net for some musical reassurance. Want to join me?

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Attacks on SS not a coincidence

Just in time for the boomers, the DFH elders to get old enough to collect, these sick polluted retrograde genetic failures passing as a political party are working their butts off to make the age when...

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Going Away, Arriving

They go together, do they not?

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What I'm Going To Do With My Latest Inheritance Fail

Okay, I lied.

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change happy hello

Change happy hello, who knew?Change happy hello, this wasn't announced,

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You're Just Made That Way

This is for the absent-minded eclectic scientists and other geeks among us.

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What Will We Write Upon, Should It All Fall Apart?

I don't know why I'm thinking about this right now. I guess from reading and posting on cfk's book-reading diary.I am such a reading junkie. But it's not like I read just to cast myself into the...

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The Cheese Stands Alone

heh.This is about the debt ceiling debate.

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What Will President Obama Be Remembered For?

I write this not to suggest that he won't be re-elected, or to otherwise demonize the man. I also don't write this presuming to be any expert on his history as POTUS.Just some thoughts. Please feel...

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When, and how, is it okay to scare children?

Something I got to thinking about this evening.

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Fear

Here I am, late and soon.

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We Hate This Sh!t

Yeah, we do. More of us than want to admit it. And you know what I'm talking about.We hate the lies, we hate the dodging. We hate the excuses, we hate social climbers who abandon us when they get high...

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Monday, Monday

Just another manic Monday.

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Trashpicking 101

Consumer demand drives waste. We are splitting more and more into two groups; those who can afford to shop at grocery stores and those who cannot.Those who can, still operate the same old American way...

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Safe Travels, Edger

When I was a kid, my mom used to do this thing where we'd tell each other that we would work not to let each other's planes fall out of the sky.It stuck with me. I still want to do that, every time...

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rain music

Bette Midler doing "I Think It's Going To Rain Today." Not bad, not bad at all.http://youtu.be/...

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What Meteor Blades Is Doing

No, I don't know what he's doing. Don't read this for some sort of revelation.This is just about what I've seen in him, as a blogger here who has paid a fair amount of attention to him over the last...

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Sea Changes

I was thinking today; "We've got a sea change going on around here," but actually this was a fairly inaccurate thought on my part, or at the very least nowhere near far-reaching enough. Serious "Today...

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if we don't do this, nobody else will

best thing I've found on the net in some time.I don't know how old it is. That doesn't matter to me.

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More Convergences

everything that rises, must converge.

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Not Just About You (also, transportation songs)

Bloggin' along...and driving...and other sorts of movement.

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Blue UID's

Blue stuff. I'm getting kinda seeing that there is something going on here that is, shall we say, trash?Blue this. Blue that.The good blue people being effed over by...??New memes, people. Now I'm...

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What About All Of This Don't You Understand?

They're out to get us.

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Late And Soon

I know, we're supposed to be shiny happy people getting over things in about twenty minutes, after a short period of thought.I guess I'm old fashioned.

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I'm Going Credit Union This Week

Finally ready to do this; should have sooner.

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Breaking!

Are we breaking them?Are we breaking them?What's getting broken?Us, Them?Us And Them?Us Or Them?

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What I Like

Not troll.

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Everybody Here Nice

So nice, so happy. Always good.Thank you for pointing out the error in my ways. I now know how to write here.

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An Apology to Edrie

Yeah, I know, I know. I'm serious here with this.Below the croissant, please.

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Oh, Dear Timaeus

Why do you hate me so much? You are so smart and interesting and a good guy overall.

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Alas, sorry

adios, good bye.

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really, I do care

I'm sorry so many see it otherwise.Sorry to hear it.It's sad for me.

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