Category: Real Life
Anger Part Two: Stupid Rage
“O, that my tongue were in the thunder’s mouth! / Then with a passion would I shake the world.” — King John, Act 3 Scene 4, lines 39-40; Constance to King Philip “Oh, shut the fuck up!“ — The most repeated phrase by drivers after the person behind them honks their horn There is a…
Rough Bits
This revamped website stuff is a big pain in the neck. I look very forward to getting it all sorted out as I watch the world spin out of control around me. This font? I’m not sure where it came from; it was probably an accident. (And I do enjoy an accident as long as…
StokerCon 23 Part 3
Better late than never? Maybe… Keep in mind I am writing this approximately four months from next StokerCon..Late? Understatement. I’ve been trying to write this third part for months and each time I start, something awful happens. It’s a post that in retrospect doesn’t really require a ton of exposition except from the point of…
Fifty Three
This year, against every effort by the universe, I turned 53. It happened a couple of days ago in fact and I’ve been a little melancholy about the entire experience ever since. Granted, I’ve been living in melancholia for quite some time, but this one seemed pretty melancholic in particular. (By the way, today’s word…
Adina C Howlett 3/10/1969-8/4/2023
I was right in the middle of 2 things the morning of August 4th. One was the third part of a wrap up of StokerCon 23 and the next installment about my solo CD Blood and Cigarettes. By the early afternoon however, I had received the news that my older sister Adina had died. She…