Good Feeling
Lord, it’s a mighty hard living But a damn good feeling to run these roads Tyler Childers, Whitehouse Road
Don’t Be So Easy On Yourself
Trying to sum up our risky business, my Dad used to quote President Nixon: “Failure isn’t falling down. Failure is not getting up after you’ve fallen down.” Jason Isbell put it another way in this song against self-pity. Don’t be so easy on yourself (don’t be so easy on yourself)Don’t be so easy on yourself […]
Song For The Walls
A lawyer is more than a mouthpiece. When it feels that nobody will ever hear you – that your grief and pain are shouted in an empty room, falling upon silent and unmoving walls – a good lawyer will break through and force your message to be heard. H/T Eric Amble for the title.
Today’s Quote
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. Meryl Streep
Today’s Quote
You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about. Willy Wonka, paraphrasing a line from Helaire Beloc’s “The Microbe” (1897)
Six Flags Not Liable For Woman’s Injury Fleeing From Clown
My sister was terrified of a giant clown that loomed over us every time we drove past a certain car dealership on Sunrise Boulevard. “Six Flags cannot take the fright out of Fright Fest, just as baseball teams cannot remove their bats and balls without fundamentally changing the game,” the opinion reads. Read more at: […]
Chest Fever
And as my mind unweaves, I feel the freeze down on my knees. Chest Fever was Garth Hudson’s moment to shine in The Band’s live performances. He was allowed to stretch out on the organ, often introducing the song with a proggy solo they called “The Genetic Method”. Peter Viney called the lyrics “dummy words”, […]
Happy Short Story Month!
Short Story Month is a month dedicated to the short story form. It is celebrated by readers and authors alike: the former set out to read as many short stories as possible, while the latter typically set a goal for how many short stories they’ll write. The overachievers often write a short story per day. […]
The Dark Origins of Valentines Day
The Roman romantics “were drunk. They were naked,” Noel Lenski, now a religious studies professor at Yale University, told NPR in 2011. Young women would line up for the men to hit them, Lenski said. They believed this would make them fertile. NPR: The Dark Origins of Valentines Day
