Archive For January 31, 2019
By Timothy M. Tays, PhD I wanted to be a distance god. There. I said it. I would’ve broken out of the lead pack and surged away, thrown down some impossible late-race splits, devastated the elites as I stretched my lead—merciless, alone, almost floating. The field would’ve strung out and withered behind me as I…
Alternative title: The Graffiti Of Westchester County In 1992, I began a novel titled The Last American Cowboy. Basically a rewrite of Shane. Handsome stranger comes to town, protects a homestead and its family against voracious maldoers. https://www.jackdogwelch.com/?p=8241 Anyway, I’m on about page 100, when I see maybe a People magazine story about this megasuccessful…
In response to numerous requests for photos of The Puppy. The Notorious RBG. A couple of candids. He don’t pose. Already he’s been trained not to jump on my head at four a.m. Today it was five. “Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love, they depart to teach us about loss. “A…
You can get so emotionally invested in the negative stuff that you let it cloud your judgment. – Galen Rupp I googled Joe Binks and one of the images, well, that’s it above. Get the sense Joe Binks looked nothing like that. On the outside. On the inside, might just be a striking resemblance. I…
St. Augustine Beach Seagulls sport mohawks. An old dog moves too slowly. Abandoned Frisbee!!!
obstinate – unreasonably determined to have one’s own way; not yielding to reason or plea; stubborn; dogged; mulish Obstinate. Lord knows, I mean that in a good way. For example, he lives in The Snowmobile Capital Of The North. He ice fishes. For fun. When did you start running and why? I started running…
Original title: In Search Of Direction At Whole Life Expo. My This Week Magazine column. November 21, 1990. I admit it. I went to the recent WHOLE LIFE EXPO at the new Convention Center wholly prepared to trash the thing. The Expo, I mean. I like the convention facility, probably the only one in the…
World’s 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam Charity calls for 1% wealth tax, saying it would raise enough to educate every child not in school by Larry Elliott The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own as many…
An Epic Tale Of Decline Barker Ajax continued to work. All this time he’d been trying to write a great novel, a best-seller, something good, something literary. That was his mistake. All this time he should’ve been trying to write a bad novel. The Great American Paragraph remained elusive. So typical. I have that “still…