Throwing pennies at pitchforks. |
Should We Judge People By Their Friends?I don't think it's fair to judge someone -- especially on a professional level -- by the statements of their associates. It is illogical to hold you accou...
Posted by Mongoose on Thu, 01 May 2008 12:45:00 PST |
In which caprice drives me into the woods. |
The prevailing dimness swallows up this Thursday morning, oozing over the rooftops and drizzling into the storm drains. Screened sunshine amplifies spring's nubile greens, evoking the false impr...
Posted by Mongoose on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:29:00 PST |
In which misinformation causes historys bleak repetition. |
"By the years of the Revolutionary crisis, the 1760s, the wealthy elite that controlled the British colonies on the American mainland had 150 years of experience, had learned certain things about how ...
Posted by Mongoose on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:27:00 PST |
Food, and throwing beer bottles at buses. |
Woke up this morning with a brain like greasy, fried-hard eggs. Stumbled around cesspool of an apartment debating the upside of cleaning the place versus sitting on my ass until I left for work....
Posted by Mongoose on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:29:00 PST |
In which the whale-child must flee or die. |
As I write this, some kid is in my cavernous-sounding apartment-building hallway hooting like a whale. This has been going on for five minutes. No joke, if the kid's still doing it when I'...
Posted by Mongoose on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:00:00 PST |
You cannot leave the subject blank. |
This heat is really starting to get on top of me. I grew up in Arizona; I've dealt with triple-digit temperatures, but the midwest just takes the fucking cake, candles and all, with all this hum...
Posted by Mongoose on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:26:00 PST |
Why I took a cab home from my boss's house at 7am. |
I'm not typically the kind of service-industry employee who joins his co-workers after hours for cocktails and tomfoolery. On Tuesday night, however, I felt about two hundred fresh urges burning...
Posted by Mongoose on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:28:00 PST |
Short note on upcoming journey to the city on the lake. |
For anyone who hasn't heard me gushing about it lately, I scored $2 Megabus tickets to Chicago, for August 23-26. If you have any leads for places to play music in front of people, places which ...
Posted by Mongoose on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:01:00 PST |
Family redefined over a period of three days |
It occurs to me that I never followed up on the debacle-that-wasn't, re: the family, and the funeral.When my grandfather (The Dad) died, the family rallied around my grandmother (The Mom), who was sud...
Posted by Mongoose on Sun, 13 May 2007 09:29:00 PST |
Thoreau-lio, fanfare, and the search for cheap drinks |
From a postcard I received recently:"I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all ...
Posted by Mongoose on Sat, 12 May 2007 11:28:00 PST |
