Something free sounds pretty good to an 18-year-old manboy. The summer before my senior year of high school, I went up to Minnesota with a buddy to work for a high-voltage electrical contractor. The contractor was building power line towers … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2013
I woke up this morning and realized that it was the beginning of another 6-day cycle. I woke up this morning and was rooted to the bed after remembering that this was the day that starts the whole thing over … Continue reading
This is a video about a guy named Heimo Korth who lives a backwoods life up in Alaska. I’d read a book about him a while back called “The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska’s Artic … Continue reading
I see these videos and it just cements something that I always knew… it’s a big world out there. Looking for a video to include in the blog this morning, I thought that it was kind of funny now that … Continue reading
I have a friend who is a songwriter who has absolutely zero internet presence. I’m not saying that he doesn’t have presence…he has more presence than most people I know. He’s a very charismatic guy. It’s just that he hasn’t … Continue reading
A buddy of mine quoted a movie called Serenity the other day. I’d involved myself in a Facebook conversation that I had no business being in…something about class warfare and the lack of ethics that having money encourages…and it had … Continue reading
I’m getting ready…. … Continue reading
Here’s a quote from Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Then one day I was walking along Tinker Creek thinking of nothing at all and I saw the tree with the lights in it. I saw a backyard cedar where … Continue reading
I’m growing grass as I write this. I guess that what I mean is that I threw some grass seed on the ground…and I have faith that it will grow. It grows on its own. I don’t know if I … Continue reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwDIOQbeDMw There was a great old skit on SNL that featured Chris Farley as a motivational speaker. In the skit, he mentions “living in a VAN…down by the RIVER”. And here’s this guy…this angry guy…living in a van somewhere. Holy … Continue reading