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How I Determine Who to Root for in the MLB Playoffs
October is here, which means that the Major League Baseball season has transitioned from a stately six-month marathon to a high pressure, high speed tournament, which will as always culminate in a World Series win for one team and broken dreams for everybody else. I’m a little behind the ball this year, as my preferred… Continue reading
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Video Games is Caves
I have a mad theory. Bear with me while I explain. The recent release of Hollow Knight: Silksong, amid high expectations and rave reviews, made me realize that despite the iconic status of the original Hollow Knight, I actually knew very little about it. I learned more about the series reading profiles of the new… Continue reading
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Vocab 128 Part 18: R
Welcome back to my weekly series, Vocab 128, in which I sit down with pen and paper and write 128 words beginning with the same letter, in more or less the order that I think of them, before scanning the page and posting it here. The result is a flex of my vocabulary muscles, an… Continue reading
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What I want to accomplish when I write poetry
Every once in a while I hit the verse button and post some text with a higher than average percentage of enter key presses. I call these poems, because they resemble poems, although I honestly don’t know what it means to “resemble” a poem. Poetry is a wonderful art form because of the freedom it… Continue reading
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Love from Three Frames
I drew the arc about the lineand bent it backI recalled the form of dress on bodyand the form of flesh on bonein my imaginationI remembered warmthand shivered in the sea of nightI drew the breath that rose above the bedand felt it close around meI dreamed of colors I had never mixed together –… Continue reading
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Vocab 128 Part 17: Q
Welcome back to my weekly series, Vocab 128, in which I sit down with pen and paper and write 128 words beginning with the same letter, in more or less the order that I think of them, before scanning the page and posting it here. The result is a flex of my vocabulary muscles, an… Continue reading
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Sure, let’s talk about a National Divorce
A certain member of the House of Representatives called recently, not for the first time, for the negotiation of a separation of the United States into two parts. I thought this was rather cavalier of her, considering how hard she has worked to allow her chosen dictator and the party he has enslaved to get… Continue reading
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Vocab 128 Part 16: P
Welcome back to my weekly series, Vocab 128, in which I sit down with pen and paper and write 128 words beginning with the same letter, in more or less the order that I think of them, before scanning the page and posting it here. The result is a flex of my vocabulary muscles, an… Continue reading
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Political Murder
How horrible it must be, to love somebody who dies, and then to hear some stranger say that they are not especially moved by their death. I would hate to be in that position. I would want people to share, even in a small way, in my loss. That’s the human tendency: to seek comfort… Continue reading
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Vocab 128 Part 15: O
Welcome back to my weekly series, Vocab 128, in which I sit down with pen and paper and write 128 words beginning with the same letter, in more or less the order that I think of them, before scanning the page and posting it here. The result is a flex of my vocabulary muscles, an… Continue reading
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