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If I ignore the future, will it go away? or Doin’ 90 to Reno.

While cleaning my room last Saturday I came across the paperwork for the 401k that my company recently offered me. I’ve never been offered such a thing as a retirement plan, and as I considered ...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:17:00 GMT

Sometimes

When I was fourteen I’d sit in my room on the rug under a bare light-bulb and listen to Robert Johnson songs while drinking Old Crow whiskey from the bottle. Sometimes I’d play Harmonica.
Posted by on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:00:00 GMT

High Five-Spice

On the bus today I saw two elderly Chinese ladies high-five each other after getting seats. My brain almost exploded in sheer joy.
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:28:00 GMT

Cormac McCarthy can kill you with his brain.

From "The Road""The blackness he awoke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the bare and bl...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:34:00 GMT

Idiosyncratic or just idiocy?

Acceptence is not always the answer. Things I need to change:1. Only one of the four brakes on my truck actually work. And that's only if I put half a bottle of brake fluid in it every two days.2. My ...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:42:00 GMT

Henry Miller rode a fixie

Henry Miller would've gotten hella laid hanging out at Ritual.
Posted by on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:17:00 GMT

The story behind the lion incident in Kansas

In September of 1995 I made a desperate escape from New England in a shit-box of a 1970 VW bus that I had bought for $200. I had rigged a VW beetle engine into it and the very night I finished getting...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:35:00 GMT

tag 2

Kara threw down the gauntlet by tagging me again. Do I have Ten more oddities? Maybe this time I'll lean more towards occurances.1. I once rode hanging off the side of a tractor-trailer while it sped ...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:34:00 GMT

tag

These are the rules: Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with ten weird things/habits about yourself. Afterwards, you need to choose ten people to be tagged and list their names. Then, g...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:54:00 GMT

Where's Nate?

Where's Nate?Here are some of the responses that I would like to imagine given ( based entirely on how much I like the names of these places):The outskirts of WinnepegCrossing the PotomacThe Horn of A...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:44:00 GMT