Archive For November 29, 2022
Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you. – Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls Admittedly, he’d had too much to drink the night before. She was brown and…
Marathon running [in Japan] was seen as a worthy and admirable pursuit, embodying the discipline, effort and commitment the country valued and needed to get back on its feet after the devastation of the war. – Adharanand Finn By Benji Durden The trip to Japan is a marathon event itself. From the west coast it…
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ― Epicurus Have a question I like to ask. Never stay around for the answer. Don’t give a shit really. The answer is yours. Somebody asked you when you…
You told me once you believed in God. The old man waved his hand. Maybe, he said. I got no reason to think he believes in me. Oh I’d like to see him for a minute if I could. What would you say to him? Well, I think I’d just tell him. I’d say: Wait…
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. – Sylvia Plath MORNING I look and I look Nary a dolphin in sight. Going sun blind here. AFTERNOON Drinking chardonnay. Listening to “Funky Town.” Already nap time. EVENING Monday night…
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be king.”― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring So, anyway, another dispatch from DeSantistan. If banners on local swag poles are any indicator, the natives are confused. Nuclear secrets hidden in the minifridge…
My quietness has a man in it, he is transparentand he carries me quietly, like a gondola, through the streets.He has several likenesses, like stars and years, like numerals.― Frank O’Hara There WAS a red wave in Florida. A real crimson tsunami. My wife, a registered Democrat, actually said out loud as she sealed her mail-in…
If you are looking at the midterm results and concluding that the rest of America is clamoring to be more like Florida, I think you are huffing paint. – Tim Miller “Florida is where ‘woke’ goes to die,” the state’s autocratic leader crowed. Did you ever hear anything so damn horrifying and at the same…
He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount. – Chinese Proverb Most of the time we live on the back of a tiger. And most of the time, the tiger is sleeping. We get to concentrate on being writers, parents; we know who we are and what we’re trying to do. Then every so…
Here are 21 of the elected officials, candidates and other prominent figures who spread misinformation or cast doubt on the attack. In tweets, podcasts and TV appearances, these figures questioned whether the public was being told the full story of what happened and in some cases spread theories that were unfounded. The man alleged to have…