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the scrawling nomad: February 2011
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Music, Politics, and The Great White Whale. Wednesday, February 2, 2011. I've curbed much of my political ranting for a shorter, more frequent Twitter posting (@lowbrowpolitics) but if this blog is going to be what I'm thinking, I can't quit politicing for good. This month, Time Magazine is remembering Reagan. The cover would have you believe its a big comparison between He and President Obama, but its only one article. The rest is in reference to the centennial. I often imagine what it would be like if ...
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the scrawling nomad: November 2010
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Music, Politics, and The Great White Whale. Friday, November 19, 2010. Pride in the Name of Love. When I was 13, I walked from school along route 140 up to the train-tracks, turning down them behind a handful of nearly bankrupt businesses and those working class houses, cramped together and separated by only chain-link. Nothing has yet to top that god damned house key. Thursday, November 4, 2010. A Review of Tom Wait's Bone Machine. Released September 8, 1992. Genre: Rock, Experimental. If you’re s...
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the scrawling nomad: October 2011
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Music, Politics, and The Great White Whale. Monday, October 31, 2011. Just be on time, don't be afraid to fail, and when you get thrown off your horse, just learn how to land well, dust yourself off, and climb back on. If you learn nothing else in life, learn how to handle the rough landings. If you know how to get back up, you're never going to suffer for too long. Politics will depress you once or twice in your life time, but as one famous politician said "There's no Republican way to clean up garbage&...
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the scrawling nomad: When did folks get boring?
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Music, Politics, and The Great White Whale. Saturday, May 28, 2011. When did folks get boring? The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie- deliberate, contrived and dishonest- but the myth- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.". 8212; John F. Kennedy. Have people not seen American Beauty? My castle in Spain.
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the scrawling nomad: Two Cents
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Music, Politics, and The Great White Whale. Monday, October 31, 2011. Just be on time, don't be afraid to fail, and when you get thrown off your horse, just learn how to land well, dust yourself off, and climb back on. If you learn nothing else in life, learn how to handle the rough landings. If you know how to get back up, you're never going to suffer for too long. Politics will depress you once or twice in your life time, but as one famous politician said "There's no Republican way to clean up garbage&...
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the scrawling nomad: Old Hat Rabbit Tricks Dog New
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Music, Politics, and The Great White Whale. Monday, September 12, 2011. Old Hat Rabbit Tricks Dog New. The Sonnet of Fading Friendship. Tea leaves are worn as a shifting mask,. Truth lingers beneath our social mores. That stability should silently ask. Civilities grip, utmost, endures. When our culture mirrors the Pyrenees' basque. Patience hand is all that cures. The bull it stomps and billows smoke. It kicks up dust and draws its line. Mistaken for its confidence. Against its lingering pains did poke.
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the scrawling nomad: Hat in hand
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Music, Politics, and The Great White Whale. Tuesday, August 26, 2014. After what seems like years of not posting, I'm starting again. If only because it's cheaper than therapy. And if I'm nothing else, I'm a writer. Which I don't say as a matter of self-identity, but more in the sense that i'm subject to all their trappings and weaknesses. So I guess I'll write. What does your word choice convey? How do you carry yourself? Are you fashionable enough? How is your posture? What events are you going to?
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the scrawling nomad: January 2011
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Music, Politics, and The Great White Whale. Wednesday, January 26, 2011. The narrative of feel. To parry rhetorical idiocy, lets not use a genre here, but instead I’m just going to put 5 songs down, and say that sound equals genre X, where X = a word I will make up soon. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Down Boy. Arcade Fire – Ready to Start. TV on the Radio – Blues from Down here. The National – Blood Buzz Ohio. Decemberists – And here I dreamt I was an architect. But beyond our teen angst and depression, these instan...