Archive For October 30, 2023
There was a time, and I toss this off as an aberration of middle-aged mental illness, I greatly enjoyed Halloween. Downtown Portland. In the Eighties. Could be fun for socialites and serial killers. From November 8, 1989. You are not the kind of guy who would be dressed up like this at this time of…
“Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.” – Stephen King, It A quick thought experiment. Instead of talking about the routine slaughter of innocent children and our fellow citizens in schools, banks, nightclubs, and grocery stores. Movie theaters, fitness centers, bowling alleys. Parades. Imagine we were talking about Islamic terrorist attacks. Hezbollah. Hamas. Imagine there…