more surfin’, please….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjyDsb7kHgU Right in the middle of bitchin’ about how we don’t have a chance to have any “genuine experiences” anymore….that we don’t dig in the record bins surrounded by other people digging in the record bins…that we don’t hide AM … Continue reading

Big Monday

I loved this movie…no, no past tense….love… I haven’t seen it in a while. “Big Wednesday”…. I have a “Big Monday” going on right now. Something is crashing on my head. My eyes are blurry…and I’m in a hurry. I … Continue reading

Neil Young’s Boots

I don’t believe that I have a shoe fetish. I don’t think any compulsion is quite so developed. I haven’t given myself over to that need so completely that I’d call it a “fetish”. But check out these boots that … Continue reading

seventy and a day

When I was 9, my parents called me in from playing outside on a hot San Jose night to watch the men land on the moon. I sat and watched them land….and then jump out of the LEM…and walk on … Continue reading

overslept

It’s the perfectly choreographed, frantic effort to get ready for something that you do the same way everyday….because you “overslept”. I don’t know why they call it that. I think that “slept too late to make the morning anything close … Continue reading

bigger, bigger, bigger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl58kpKLsFk We watch these shows on TV about people buying houses. That’s pretty weird, when I think of it. Sort of voyeuristic or something. Why should I care what somebody else is doing? The thing about these shows is that … Continue reading

too much

I almost threw up on Main St. in downtown Hendersonville yesterday. I had an appointment with a lawyer to sign papers on some property that we’re in the process of buying, and when I stepped out of the car, I … Continue reading

cat food

I think that sometimes we do things over and over to remind ourselves of something. We do things repeatedly….thinking each time we do it, “hmmmmmm….this feels kind of familiar….” and then one day we get up, repeat ourselves one more … Continue reading

this is not my beautiful house….

Jenny and I were talking about cheap houses that we looked at when we were first married. Seeing a tipi on TV was the conversation starter. We drove up deep into Madison county and looked at a tipi that a … Continue reading

that wasn’t so bad

So…I had my procedure. From what I can gather, from my limited range of experience to draw a conclusion upon, everything went well. As far as I can tell…everything went well. It was a little worse than having my teeth … Continue reading