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Not Exactly an Emergency / The Beat Heat ManifestoThat was mean esp since I cannot see how any of that was your fault.
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Not Exactly an Emergency / The Beat Heat ManifestoOh the door looks bad. Found myself here, in this new abode, with two automatic garage doors with like bicycle chains that pull one or the other... -
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Not Exactly an Emergency / The Beat Heat ManifestoHoward! While I was busy with my stomach not cooperating, all THAT happened? You have got to sell the sit com rights. This could easily be the...
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String Slinger
Three weeks ago I was thinking about things. And that's not unusual. But for me, thinking about things (the way I do, in excess) is often counterproductive. And overthinking can lead to unfortunate mental and physical states. Like Delaware.
Anyways…
My guitar - that's the thing...
“I thought perhaps she was crazy, but she was only highly intuitive.” ~ Carl Jung
Art: ‘I was raised by the forest’ kat Philbin
Appearances
I played it cool, but Beeswax surprised the hell out of me - coming up from behind the way he did, angling up the steep concrete incline. I wasn't expecting to see him. And really, I wasn't expect to see anybody else either.
More on him later.
Friday Night Lights
It's been a...
Note: I believe this was a July 1st experience - coinciding with the onset of the current heatwave.
"Thank you for calling Phoenix Dial-A-Ride…" … the prerecorded message says. Yep, if you hadn't guessed already, our ride was late.
We were marooned on 5th Street and McDowell on a Saturday...
“Life isn’t always onward and upward.
Sometimes you evolve, sometimes you devolve. Sometimes you get the life sucked out of you, and other times you breathe life back in.
There are times of shutting down and…opening up.
There are times the walls go up … times they come right back down...
Youthful Exuberance
A car load of manic girls courses through and around the city park at breakneck speed. As they do so, three female individuals climb partially outside the vehicle, eventually coming to a sidesaddle seated position (legs inside the vehicle / arms flailing away in the wind)...