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28 Sep 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
When I was young and in my early twenties, I mean, after having spent five years studying at the fine academy of Berkeley in California in the seventies and read so many great books by great authors, (many of them not assigned by any course I took b...
17 Jul 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I don't want to sound like Jerry Maguire here, but it does ring a bell. And bells are all about what this blog will describe, little tiny bells in the back of our heads. I used (and it's been a full fifty years now since I quit that hobby) to coll...
1 Jan 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Another day I remember vividly was one day with Suzanne. It was a bright, windy Saturday Spring morning in San Francisco, the end of March. I was already planning on leaving and needed money. I had a few semi-rare books with me and thought to sell...
22 Dec 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
magic mushrooms When I was living in Berkeley a few months later, surrounded with a new set of friends, I was given a nickname I never liked, but people called me ‘random Rob’, probably because of all the strange things I would quote out of books...
19 Dec 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My passport picture at twenty three, taken just before I left school forever. I knew I wasn’t the half-dazed, feather in the wind airhead she was. I was unusually meek and circumspect and slow to come to any life-changing decision, prone to ponde...
24 Nov 2021 2 minute read 3 comments Scopeman
“Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such an...
18 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments naykdhodlr
Lethargy A pervasive languor is infusing itself amongst the young, It is as though they care for no one, Or for no one thing; From where does this apathy ring? Could it be they see through the illusion? Or, disoriented by the confusion. Created...
6 Jul 2021 11 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
TW: Sexual Themes, Violence, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Madly went the women, their minds empty of anything except the heat, the night and the predrinks they'd already imbibed. Their hair swung wildly, full and sensuous as they gyrated to the beat. In th...
22 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments TerdilY
You might remember being a kid and going to get yourself an ice cream. Your mom or dad gave you (in my case 1€) to go and get a scoop. Maybe sometimes two. We would say hello and pick our favourite ice cream, then pay by giving the ice cream parlour...
18 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PABarb
Y-Youth Another wonderful word that as one gets older you really appreciate... Today, I look around my coworkers and they are all much younger then me but that is to be expected at 57. I look back at my youth with primarily positivity. Great times...
