More proverbs, mantras, aphorisms and precepts; because that’s what we need!
Boredom is a luxury.
We are experiencing technical difficulties. We appreciate your patience. That always works, right?
Drama feeds on itself while everyone else starves.
You cannot be the solution to other people’s problems.
Hare MAGA; Hare MAGA; MAGA…
I am not just a fan of the Green Bay Packers; I am a shareholder. The Packers are the only American publicly owned major league sports franchise. This is why, whenever the NFL Players Union seeks better terms from the National Football League, it is an act of bad faith…
Lawyers are not our problem, since Shakespeare’s Dick the Butcher is an evil archetype. The trite punching bag of “mainstream media” is not our problem, mostly because there really is no longer any mainstream among the oceanic wetlands of infotainment culture.
Halloween has traditionally been the only holiday that the serious grown-ups hadn’t ruined yet. Not only the ubiquitous horror movies on TV and heightened weirdness in the music on the radio but in the encouragement allowing us to freak freely through the onset of the autumnal season.
From All Hallows…
Cold night last night. Thinking about the slow collapse of my circle of friends: one out in the street; another stuck in assisted living for the rest of their life; a few more stuck in their cycles of underemployment, spite and judgementalism. And me, too useless to be of any…
About halfway through his term in office, in 2018, the Trump administration announced the establishment of a Religious Liberty Task Force. As a campaigner and as president, Trump was outspoken (as if he really cared) about how much he hates it when Americans wish each other “Happy Holidays” at Christmastime…
Cross country drives and lodging in strange cities have always been about so much more than tourist traps and continental breakfasts in hotel lobbies. They are also opportunities to immerse oneself in the many flavors of culture through what Marshall McLuhan identified as the hot medium of radio.
I rediscovered…
A Dispatch from the 9th Annual Spoo Willoughby Hoedown & Cornboil
A warm and sunny late-September afternoon. And a great day for a Cornboil in Hammond, Indiana.
In the parking lot out back of Paul Henry’s Art Gallery, proprietor David J. Mueller’s boiling corn was hot, sweet and locally grown…
A chilly Friday morning. The day’s forecast is warm, nearly 80 degrees. But for now, it’s under 50.
“It’s late September,” Rod Stewart and Chris Berman would sing and say, respectively, back in the day, “and I really should be back at school.” But some of us never left school…
