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2 Sep 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.09
Note: The article Desertion of the Circus Animals contains more of my thoughts on this topic, and Raptured From A Kerouac Dream reminds me not to focus on it to the point that I neglect my spirit. But it was fun to write this out, and perhaps it will...
2 Sep 2025 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.01
Yes, I have a black name,” is one of the first things out of Shoniqua’s mouth, this maiden voyage meeting her. Though I haven’t mentioned that, she is apparently used to hearing such, hence the preemptive strike. Yet still must prefer it to he...
1 Sep 2025 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.02
Conversation at this table in Pardners is considerably less stimulating, though the potential looms large. Karaoke has gone okay, from a performance standpoint, but the song selection progressively poorer and even worse, boring, as this night...
31 Aug 2025 13 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.04
Tonal shifts arrive in subtle waves, the longer we continue to sit here. So much seems preordained in retrospect, considering the list of characters who behave exactly as one would expect. And yet this amounts to a longshot betting parlay, whe...
31 Aug 2025 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.03
As though an omnipotent superbeing, Robby calls me for the first time in months, wondering if I might want to hit happy hour. Apart from the occurrence itself, the strangest aspect to this is that I was planning on calling him this afternoon a...
30 Aug 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.12
It isn't a question of killor be killed The world is a death bed Choose your hill Will you play on the platformof the subwayof rage, The tunnel of hatred? The erotic cage? Will you die on the hillof Mohammedanpride? Burning in hell For the privilege...
29 Aug 2025 22 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.04
I get it, though. If you’re going to entertain some unusual notions about conquering this daily farce, then you risk others not exactly endorsing your stunts. And this is possibly a positive. The fewer bodies jammed onto this elevator — regard...
28 Aug 2025 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.02
Answers on the Joe front arrive soon enough. Curiosity insatiable, Dylan makes a point of tracking our old friend down at his parents’ house, to get the full scoop. It seems that my instincts were spot on, regarding the weird timing on that mi...
28 Aug 2025 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.01
Even though I’m not so sure he knows what he’s talking about, Phil seems quite convinced of this point. And he is presumably enjoying some success with this approach, out on the town with Jen. Or more accurately, at Bootleggers with Jen, where...
27 Aug 2025 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.12
It’s amazing how nothing ever progresses in a straight line. Yet a discernible link exists between effort extended and the results achieved — it’s just that instead of linear motion, right angles, curves, and other irregular routes are far mor...
