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Bottom of the Glass: Living In Other People's Homes
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Living In Other People's Homes. With the rise of VRBO (Vacation Rental By Owner) and other, similar sites, the idea of paying to use someone else's house for a couple of day or so, has become a new, and I would argue, strange normal. Not that people haven't always rented out their places for various reason before, but now, that has become a kind of standard practice. 2 In someone else's house, you tend to be simultaneously careful and careless. How is that possible? Last week's c...
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Bottom of the Glass: July 2014
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Epiphany #51: Man Turns Subaru Into Man Truck. It doesn't seem possible, but I did it- took a beaten down, pussy-whipped 2001 Subaru Outback, white for God's sakes, and turned it into a man truck. Or at least the station wagon version of such. Here's how I did it. With the car finally clean inside and out, it was time to man it up. There were three things I knew I needed for sure- change, tools, and a cooler. Links to this post. Saturday, July 26, 2014. When was the last time yo...
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Bottom of the Glass: May 2015
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Thursday, May 28, 2015. 8220;Writing is dead.”. 8220;The intellect is empty.”. 8220;The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”. 8220;You have to show the rot.”. Flannery O’Connor, the lupus-addled queen of “Southern Gothic” literature, either wrote, said or inspired these quotes, all of which were mentioned during a fascinating hour-long exploration of "A Prayer Journal," O’Connor’s diary of sorts during her time as a graduate student in Iowa. But the Flannery O’Connor event...
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Bottom of the Glass: January 2015
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Saturday, January 31, 2015. Shave and a Haircut. 8220;I’d rape Emma Watson.”. My barber said those words to me as I sat in his chair, as he sheared away layers of hair from my skull. For only the second time since I was 7 years old, I was in a barber shop, hearing words I'd never hear at a Great Clips. I'd only met this young man less than 10 minutes prior. Nevermore, I swore. I've been sporadically reading The Art of Manliness. A compilation of blog posts from the truly amazing site. If this seems like ...
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Bottom of the Glass: This Is Your Brain On The Flu
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Monday, April 20, 2015. This Is Your Brain On The Flu. Well, actually, it is my brain, but I have to think, all of my personal quirks aside, that brains that have been numbed by the flu are pretty much similar. Still, flu, any flu, takes you down. When we were at the clinic, we sat in the waiting room with a SWAT guy who thought he could best it, could work through it, but he couldn't and it took him down. When we saw him, he could barely move. Like us. Phone call. No. Why? People want to bring us things...
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Bottom of the Glass: Adrift
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Lately, I've felt adrift. My 2015 music purchases are down to almost nothing, which might mean nothing to the average bear, but it's a red flag in my world. My blog writing has been practically non-existent, and what's worse is I haven't tried all that hard to write anything. All of my hobbies feel a bit stupid, even though they're not, even though they provide a kind of meaning and distraction for me. How dare we look forward to the possibilities of a year or two from now when th...
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Bottom of the Glass: April 2015
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Monday, April 20, 2015. This Is Your Brain On The Flu. Well, actually, it is my brain, but I have to think, all of my personal quirks aside, that brains that have been numbed by the flu are pretty much similar. Still, flu, any flu, takes you down. When we were at the clinic, we sat in the waiting room with a SWAT guy who thought he could best it, could work through it, but he couldn't and it took him down. When we saw him, he could barely move. Like us. Phone call. No. Why? People want to bring us things...
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Bottom of the Glass: December 2014
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014. It hit me powerfully, and I've been thinking about it ever since, for it contained some I hadn't known died, some I hadn't thought about for years, some who are moving on without even my awareness of their contribution, and I am reasonably aware. Surely the Seegers and the Cockers have gotten their due. my thoughts today are with those I. Lost this year, those who with a note, a riff, a song helped to shape my own musical landscape:. Ride on, Paul Revere, who helped to lead ...
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Bottom of the Glass: February 2015
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Saturday, February 28, 2015. Jim Dandy To The Rescue! And so this blogpost. Just cleaning up around here at the end of the month, looking through scraps and half-baked thoughts that never turned into anything. Maybe 8 lost, forgotten, unrealized ideas make up a whole one. That's what I've got for you, 8 random observations that have little or nothing to do with each other, and maybe nothing t do with anything at all. Nevertheless, here they are:. 2 Siracha is jumping the shark. Like its forefather, c...
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Bottom of the Glass: A Gift Is A Gift
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015. A Gift Is A Gift. A gift is a gift. Can there be any more direct statement? And yet, for most of us, it is among the hardest statements to grasp or to believe. When the beer came, I also got a ticket. A ticket for the raffle. My friend across the table had a ticket, too. I thought everyone at the table had a raffle ticket, but I was wrong. You had to buy a Sierra Nevada. 8220;Take it,” I said. “Keep it.”. Later on, he said, “Let me buy you a beer in exchange for it.”. I have another...
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