Confronting the day before you. Striving to achieve some goal to which you’ve given ample weight, but has no real meaning nor value. An object you’re moving towards, far enough in the distance to be forever out of reach but not too far that it seems ridiculous to dream. Continue reading Sheltered and Waiting
When you were there crime always seemed to be something that was going on far away, unseen beyond your horizon, but deeply felt. A reverse magnet pulling you away from the common in favor of the touristic. Continue reading Caribbean Isle Notes #2
One of Dave Chappell’s most memorable characters was the ‘Black White Supremacist.’ A blind black man raised as white who eventually becomes a leading white supremacist. Whenever I hear the dreaded populism term bandied about I immediately think of that sketch. Continue reading Populism
We’ve developed an unnatural reverence for tech. Connected tools and services consume every waking moment of our lives. We depend on them. We treat the leaders of the industry like gods, hanging on their every word, believing they hold the key to some magical insight that will give our lives meaning. Continue reading Tech
We have a strange relationship to weather events. Somewhere there are people who huddle around the television at a specified hour to watch their local news affiliate and the two or three segments related solely to weather. Continue reading Snow Day
We have a slavish and comical dedication to big business. Their shills have told us for countless years they need considerable regulatory space and low taxes to create the kinds of innovations that can make society more efficient, our lives easier, and as an added benefit make the world a better place; whatever that means. Continue reading Volume X – January 2021
Words and phrases, continuously repeated, achieve two opposite ends – establishing a desired perception and stripping them of original meaning. As long as I can remember the political right has called the political left socialists, communists, and everything red in between. Continue reading Pot See Kettle
Over the last few weeks there has been a long line of mostly obscure public officials taking the COVID vaccine to instill confidence in the thing we’ve been hoping and waiting for the last nine months. One can’t help but wonder what these performative gestures are meant to accomplish. Continue reading Performative Gestures
The Shopkeeper always knew a month in advance how many cruise ships would be docking on a given day. It was a constant source of gossip amongst her circle of friends – the size of the ship, country of origin, length of stay. Continue reading Caribbean Isle Notes #1
Major holidays in the city are like turning down the volume of a boisterous song. Transient renters scatter to the suburbs of their youth or families. Work mostly grinds to a screeching halt. Those with nowhere to go don’t try. You can walk for blocks without seeing another soul outside. And when you do a question always comes to mind – what are they doing here? Continue reading City on Holiday
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