Archive For April 19, 2019

A Runner Looks At The Mueller Report

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A Runner Looks At The Mueller Report

Mueller noted that while the report does not conclude Trump committed a crime, “it also does not exonerate him.” [Full disclosure: I am an angry old white man, a veteran with a college degree. Not a Democrat, not a Republican. Officially, I am NPA “No Political Affiliation.” I live in a deep red county. The…

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In Broad Daylight

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In Broad Daylight

“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove,” Robert Frost wrote, “the poem must ride on its own melting.”  Her cry sliced through crisp winter air like a dart through tavern smoke. Hello, she called. He had been watching a flight of croaking ravens wreak havoc in a nearby Douglas fir, flocking noisily; at…

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Do-It-Yourself Ten-Step Trump Comb-Over

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Do-It-Yourself Ten-Step Trump Comb-Over

A How-To Article AND A Public Service Message “Make your head great again.” Let you in on a little secret. All the so-called “executive time” is not – contrary to the liberaltard snowflakes whining – not spent watching that Douchey guy scratch his nuts on Fox & Friends. All that magnificence doesn’t just happen. First…

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How To Be A Good Writer

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How To Be A Good Writer

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way. ― Charles Bukowski you’ve got to fuck a great many womenbeautiful womenand write a few decent love poems. and don’t worry about ageand/or freshly-arrived…

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Tax Day

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Tax Day

“I realize how helpless and needy they are, but I’m afraid you still can’t claim a human as a dependent.” (source: The New Yorker)

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Original Gangsters Of Running (Hal Higdon)

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Original Gangsters Of Running (Hal Higdon)

“There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.” Nearly a half century ago, I read Hal Higdon’s On The Run From Dogs and People. Had already decided I wanted to be a fast runner and a published writer and here was proof it could be done. Never got fast…

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the laughing heart

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the laughing heart

by Charles Bukowski your life is your lifedon’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.be on the watch.there are ways out.there is a light somewhere.it may not be much light butit beats the darkness.be on the watch.the gods will offer you chances.know them.take them.you can’t beat death butyou can beat death in life, sometimes.and the…

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The Genius Of The Crowd

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The Genius Of The Crowd

The problem with the world is that intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence. – Charles Bukowski there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the averagehuman being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against itand…

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so you want to be a writer

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so you want to be a writer

 . if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for…

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America, If You’re Listening…

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America, If You’re Listening…

At first you laugh, then you imitate laughter, then you stop laughing. – Laurie Anderson America, if you’re listening… I know some shit because I have seen some shit. Nobody knows the troubles I’ve seen. Nobody knows my sorrows. And I got me some sorrows. Are you so naive? Do you really think everything works…

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