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A few years ago, I read an article about an impending anniversary of 9/11 (I don’t remember which one specifically), and what I remember from it is a quote from one of the children of someone who died in the collapse of the twin towers. Essentially, this person said that there is never any long-term healing from the...

So here we are, at the end of August, and the end of Blaugust as well, and so as not to bury the lede: I have learned from participating this year that I really am not designed to crank out a daily post unless I have something I want to say. Look, I’ve done 30 of 31 posts this month, and most of those I feel are...

So Google has put their tongue to the Presidential boot once more, and renamed "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" (joining their previous bullshit of renaming the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America"). Yes, names on a map are really just some collectively arbitrary kind of thing that really don't matter all that...

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Just a quick note to say that you are allowed to overnight chicks and ducklings through the mail in order to ship them from hatcheries to buyers, but when your “overnight” turns into “four days later,” you end up with a box of dead chicks and dead ducklings. Anyway, happy Friday, I guess. Send me an email Latest 3...

Apparently a Federal Court has said that it’s now okay for people to bring guns into the post office as long as they are “law-abiding citizens.” As a postal worker, this makes me feel [sarcasm] SO MUCH SAFER [end sarcasm]. (Actually, there is no end to my sarcasm.) (Also, a special note was made to remind postal...

If my grandmother were still alive, today would be her 100th birthday (or possibly her 101st; she was 95 when she died, but she insisted that she was 96, so who can say for sure). When I was a boy, I would spend most of my summers with my grandparents, and it was very much that idyllic period that you see portrayed...

… but Dolly was pretty damn close. Send me an email Latest 3 posts 25 Aug, 2026 There Are No Good Billionaires… 25 Aug, 2026 Stupid Summer People 25 Aug, 2026 Digging and Unearthing Older Posts I'd Like You to See 05 Nov, 2024 Election Night, Anxiety Night 03 Jul, 2024 Every Cat's Got a Bit of an Asshole in Him 17...

After having lived here for a few years now, I can safely say that there are two speeds at which everyone in rural Maine drives: either twenty miles per hour over the posted speed limit, or twenty miles per hour under. Here where we live, in Stephen King country, there are no local police doing traffic monitoring,...

Spent my down time at work today elbows deep in the files for my book in eternal progress. There are things in my notes that I’ve both completely forgotten about and that I’ve completely forgotten what I was going to do with. Happily I don’t feel upset about any of that, and I can work with all of it going forward....

… here’s a bit from a series of images I’m working on. (By the way, nothing I post here, words or pictures, uses AI. It’s strictly good old fashioned fucking around.) Send me an email Latest 3 posts 24 Aug, 2026 In Lieu of an Actual Post… 23 Aug, 2026 Back On My Art Thing 21 Aug, 2026 Can We Just Do The November...