My Vegas lounge ring tone starts riffing. It’s him. It’s one hour later there and, Oh shit, here it comes. The news isn't supposed to arrive until the following morning, but here it comes. We’d been waiting with held breath these last forever months: me, him, mom, who's now in the background. She’s usually asleep … Continue reading Ice cream deferred
My boss is chubby and a red neck. Same chubby, same redneck as when I was his boss. Instead of puffing on the cigs these days he's got this flasky-looking vessel he fills with oil or syrup that makes it impossible for him to take his mouth off of it. If that's not enough, he's … Continue reading Anatomy of a civil war
https://videopress.com/v/Cm5G02zi?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true On my first day back on the water, we putter by the Time Bandit on the way out the harbor in Homer, AK. The sky is beginning to show. Seagulls are joyful or fussy I can never tell. I look it up--Time Bandit is the boat that featured on the Deadliest Catch for years. … Continue reading Six on six off
I take this call. I'm told that I'm going somewhere in Alaska. I hear the word "Nome" at one point. Nome? Sounds a little too much like 'no' and 'home' put together. For those who know better, it is. I'm sad about it. Summer’s going to come and go while I'm up there. I’ll probably … Continue reading Whatever it takes
Jesus said to His disciples: Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them; otherwise you will have no recompense from your Heavenly Father. When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win the praise … Continue reading These next 40
(In response to our Money Guy's last entry) Man, you really have it out for 45 and 47, hunh? I was awfully hesitant voting for him myself in case you hadn’t heard or read that memo. Look, we’re consummately trying to do shit different around here. We’re consummate tryers. That means for starters that while … Continue reading How much?
tmc: Guess I can’t really flip you shit anymore about your Kansas City Refs. Geezus, you all right? Need anything? Another minute? Son of a . . . Dude, Snooze Bowl was more like it. Anyway, Money Guy slash Trump fan, let’s do this. It’s been a minute. Plus we got bigger shit to … Continue reading Ayo, Money Guy
Lots up in arms over the sweeping terminations going on right now across the vast stretch of North American pampas otherwise known as federal bureaucracy. Elon, that big bad evil Elon, that who-let-that-son of a bitch-in-illegally Elon--he's coming, and he's gonna clean out your account. He's bringing his henchman, his leather-encased AI codes with him. … Continue reading Trump check
Ever since I got sent home a few months back, I've been reinventing myself. It's how I like referring to it, anyway, although I don't know exactly what that's supposed to look like definition-wise. It feels like reinvention when I'm writing more. Looking for ways to monetize this sumbitch site and hopefully and diametrically change … Continue reading Under re-construction
Catterly never pictured himself going out this way; standing in some god-forsaken heat sink, clad in the official old man’s uniform of big-butt cargo shorts and a Tommy Bahama Hawaiian shirt, guzzling white wine—probably Pinot Grigio, for Christ’s sake—and surrounded by a bunch of other wrinkled codgers; an entire community playing footsie with the gravedigger. No, his retirement … Continue reading Made Men
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