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The Demise of Ol’ Drippy
For the first time since I began to occupy this apartment sometime in September, I am mercifully free of the dripping dropping plipping plopping noise that has unceasingly emanated from the bathroom sink. And feeling rather sheepish for not taking…
In the Absence of People
The air is pregnant with impending snow today, the entire high sky taking on a gray-white hue as though snow were the literal product of such a sky being chipped and chiseled into flaky falling flecks. The radar maps say…
The Way Life Used to Be
Boy, can I not wait for this year to be over! Who’s with me? Yesterday I found out that I need a root canal, which joins my wife leaving me and kidney stones as great things that have happened in…
When I Light My Masterpiece: A Tale of 772 Luminarias
My previous record was 620. This year, I folded every single bag. Except David Winks “Gris” Gray folded one bag, and Matthew Randolph “Fish” McFeeley folded two bags into paper airplanes that had to be unfolded and refolded properly. Other…
During the Snow
A visual follow-up to Before the Snow… Living room in blue. Shed a little light on the subject. Fire in an empty theater. Dis mantle. Nesbitt waits patiently… …grabs for the burrito… …and wonders why the burrito was taken away.…
Land of Enchantment in Forty Flicks
My month-long return to Nuevo Mexico is off to a bit of a rough start. I just can’t seem to get in an emotional groove I feel good about. Someone or other told me the first holiday season would be…
Phil’ ‘Em Up
Not much to say today except that I’ve concluded the day after Thanksgiving may be far better than the day of. No, not because of the shopping. I’m not sure I’m going to buy (or accept) any gifts this year.…
Handwriting Analysis (or: the Role of Coincidence?)
It’s been a rough couple days in the northeast. People say things like that which they have no business saying. Most people in the northeast have probably been doing just fine. There’s preparations for what appears to be the northeast’s…
Bookshelf Analysis
A while back, some friends of mine were featured in the New Yorker’s Book Bench for their pre-marital alignment of wood-housed tomes. So I figured it was time, now that I’ve actually organized them properly, for me to feature my…