Semi-Coherent Musings - from one of the leading masters of this questionable art form!
28 Sep 2025 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“Damn, dude, it looks like you’ve lost a bunch of weight,” Dylan observes, in the kitchen one evening, as I shuffle inside and flop into a chair. “What’s your secret?” “Mmm…let’s call it the Ramen And Overtime Diet,” I improvise with a laugh....
25 Sep 2025 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
With nothing else to do, Pete and I take the dregs of our beer to the next metal bench over, and join Dylan as he continues holding court. When he gets on these rolls, his gift for commanding center stage is truly a sight to behold — which mak...
23 Sep 2025 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
With the latest school semester beginning and even these late summer days only sporadically warm, it makes sense that we begin phasing out the whole beach bum superhero costumes. Time to get back down to business, perhaps. But when we are unexpected...
21 Sep 2025 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Seeking pointers on the whole black female experience, Dylan and I find ourselves at this somewhat posh hotel bar downtown, with Marvin, for happy hour. It's the Monday following her handoff of the digits, and my roommate was thinking it might make...
19 Sep 2025 4 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
On the surface this rekindled relationship with Helena is progressing far better. During the next great big holiday weekend, this one wrapped around the fourth of July, as all my closest friends have uniformly ventured back home, she and I hatch thi...
16 Sep 2025 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Hawaiian outfits, however, are a nonstarter thus far, at least in any typical beachy type setting. We have set this concept simmering on the back burner for deployment elsewhere. Mostly, anyhow – one advantage that I seemingly have which Dylan does n...
16 Sep 2025 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Somehow I keep returning to this notion that the more successes any of us experience, the less likely we are to dispense advice. Still, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly where on the spectrum this dot might lie. Or should I say, these multiple coordinat...
14 Sep 2025 16 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Regardless where you are, something important is always happening. It’s just that you cannot possibly always know — indeed, will usually have extremely misguided notions concerning — where to properly allocate your attention. Attempts at assigning i...
12 Sep 2025 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Us three guys decide to stroll up the street, to the next insanely packed bar. Here, a more middle aged yet somehow much crappier cover band has set up shop, and I’m not exactly surprised to hear Boat Drinks followed by Rupert Holmes’s Escape, immed...
10 Sep 2025 20 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Still, we don’t get around to assembling the Buffett costumes until our ship is about to leave the harbor, when the final horn is blowing. As the first big party weekend of the unofficial summer approaches, Dylan’s lame coworkers nonetheless cobble...
