Do It Over
Sometimes it’s just best to start over. Clean the slate. Open to a new page. Find all new people to run for president. Seems easy enough. Just start fresh....
Slow Starts
There are a thousand miles ahead. So take that first step. And the next one. And the one after that. Just by taking a step, you’re ahead of the game. It’s...
Roadhouse 2024: Big Dumb Fun
Watched the 2024 reboot of Roadhouse last night. It’s a movie that, like the original, worked very hard to give the main character depth. Make them into a...
Listen to the tribe, Joe
The Debate has assumed capital status in my head, somewhere between 9/11 and the day Jerry Garcia died. Biden lost. Democracy won. Or at least what comes...
Dictator or Dotard
Freedom of choice. Freedom from choice. Language is tricky. It’s a syllable. Just the one. Couple of extra letters. But it means we’ve got two options: A...
Patriotism: An Epitaph
I saw it from across the parking lot: an American flag better suited to the skies over a car dealership than where it was, bolted to the back end of...
Nailed It
It always comes down to a nail. For want of a nail the shoe was lost.For want of a shoe the horse was lost.For want of a horse the rider was lost.For want of...
Legal Loopholes
The next president could order Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival with impunity. That’s the takeaway from yesterday’s Supreme Court 6-3 decision...
Playtime
Went to Cidercade yesterday. It’s an arcade that serves cider. The kind you have to be 21 to order. And no, it’s not a remixed Dave & Buster’s. Couple...
Someone to save me
Nearly two and a half years ago, I decided to step off the hamster wheel. Write a book. Reasonable, if risky, proposition, I thought. That is, if I had built...
Marines invade Dune screening on Max
Got around to watching Dune 2. Been on the list for a while. Two things stopping me. PaulChani Let’s be clear: Denis Villeneuve's vision of Herbert’s books...
People First
Person first? Or. Diagnosis first. I’m either: A person with autism, an example of people first language (PFL), orAn autistic person, an example of identity...
My kind of monster
I’d moved out, told her I was filing. Left a letter on her desk in the home office. I know, I know, I am a gem. Then the job I had fell through. Had to move...
Running To Stand Still
I was a bigger U2 fan once. Probably still am. You outgrow those things, but they never really leave you. I was raised on classical music and an eclectic...
Sucker punched
I’m “in between opportunities”. Kind of like Van Damme’s in between these trucks except they’re pulling away and sure funds are flexible but at some point...
Performative effectiveness
This weekend, Lando Norris learned a tough lesson in performance vs. effectiveness, which unless he’s a big fan of the civil-military cooperation, and I...
Time Bandits
There’s a store here at the country club. Cannot tell you how much that sentence amuses me circa 1995 thinking I was going to end up in a VW bus tooling...
But I need it
Better to have, and not need, than to need and not have. Attributed to Franz Kafka. The problem is that we attribute need to too many things. Telling...
Something to say
“I don’t have anything to say”. That’s not true. We have things to say. Just that we think they’re not worth listening to. Some of that’s ego. Sheltering...
Sampled
Drug tested today as part of a job application process. Collection centers are grim places, filled with the kind of cheer better suited to a DMV. Big...