May 13, 2024:
Friendly Alma, Texas death-row guard.
The inmates expose themselves to her. But she'll loan you her truck.
"I'll give you a tour!", she offers. "But, if you have any warrants, you'll get in but probably not out again."
May 12, 2024:
Teenies on their phones.
All hours, many hours, all the time day and night and day and night. The 1950s teens-are-children Gidget-loves-Moondoggie all-American Cokes-and-cheeseburgers stereotype.
Carried into their late twenties, Mom is no longer amused.
May 11, 2024:
"God those phone calls..."
Wait, what? It happened to you, too?
All this time I'd thought I'd been her only victim.
- May 10, 2024: Snakeskin boots on a polished table.
- May 9, 2024: "We don't have to deliver our results in writing. It's enough to talk about them."
- May 8, 2024: "I've been doing this forty years, and I have you on tape."
- May 7, 2024: Panting happily, sweat dripping, warmth from the bones flowing.
- May 6, 2024: Babies chasing sparrows.
- May 5, 2024: Soccer dude, the goalkeeper...
- May 4, 2024: Angry.
- May 3, 2024: It's uphill.
- May 2, 2024: This could be the day he goes outside.
- May 1, 2024: I know there's an answer
- April 30, 2024: sometimes I feel very sad
- April 29, 2024: Let the day in.
- April 28, 2024: The arrogance of incomplete discovery.
- April 27, 2024: They're hard to work with.
- April 26, 2024: "The old... now no longer present."
- April 25, 2024: It's found language, or near-found:
- April 24, 2024: Jagger Sings!
- April 23, 2024: We saw Ladies and Gentlemen in the old University Theater, no longer present...
- April 22, 2024: That band was ragged, even when they were blowing off the roof.
- April 21, 2024: Greenfield postures at a cynicism he hasn't earned.
- April 20, 2024: Triangulate, reader.
- April 19, 2024: Infrastructure as initiation.
- April 18, 2024: Bootlegs at The Black.
- April 17, 2024: Now my pier is gone.
- April 16, 2024: Althusser on the pier.
- April 15, 2024: Bootlegs at The Black.
- April 14, 2024: When did she stop laughing?
- April 13, 2024: Market Street.
- April 12, 2024: Insightful strategy, undercut by routine.
- April 11, 2024: Hospitals.
- April 10, 2024: Doctor Arrogance, MD.
- April 9, 2024: Mark: Before you go, do you have time for a question?
- April 8, 2024: Whole Foods, NPR, Davos-light.
- April 7, 2024: Marin County mantra of the 1990s.
- April 6, 2024: Hip length white hair, very straight, slumped in her waiting room chair.
- April 5, 2024: Would I go there again?
- April 4, 2024: Her box of cast-aside objects.
- April 3, 2024: "I sincerely believed you had no sense of rhythm."
- April 2, 2024: Would she have liked this music?
- April 1, 2024: BoHo hipsters.
- March 31, 2024: "You've mellowed," she said in her mincing way...
- March 30, 2024: "I've become and old lady!"
- March 29, 2024: Is it appropriate to be angry about events from so long ago?
- March 28, 2024: "They're always going to need airplanes."
- March 27, 2024: First generation of shows for grown-ups.
- March 26, 2024: "What are you doing for your birthday, Mark?"
- March 25, 2024: The stress of lies.
- March 24, 2024: Misplaced loyalties.
- March 23, 2024: Old meets new.
- March 22, 2024: I was sincerely and intensely grateful for her outrage.
- March 21, 2024: The first meaningless Stones album.
- March 20, 2024: The sardonic intelligence behind the silliness.
- March 19, 2024: I'm workin' so hard.
- March 18, 2024: He was a great person and a fun songwriter.
- March 17, 2024: The band posturing at being that band.
- March 16, 2024: It's a weak album.
- March 15, 2024: Adolescent certainty versus an album that requires adult ambivalence to parse correctly.
- March 14, 2024: "Who's the chick on the cover?"
- March 13, 2024: Exile is the Stones' gospel album.
- March 12, 2024: Outside, but still in.
- March 11, 2024: Elderly in camo fishing cap, head down, asleep on his own arms.
- March 10, 2024: The ride through Trolley Square is pure Disney.
- March 9, 2024: Great certainty in greater error.
- March 8, 2024: The AI opponent is a one-trick pony.
- March 7, 2024: "Sorry!"
- March 6, 2024: Transit worker on the platform.
- March 5, 2024: Tina Tats with long yellow braid...
- March 4, 2024: Girls on the platform, magenta streaks, purple highlights, green and yellow streaks on black.
- March 3, 2024: Johnny Attitude, arm over seatback, fingers twitching, projecting impatience.
- March 2, 2024: "I remember one time the trolley stopped really hard."
- March 1, 2024: Google Pay versus Apple Pay, who will win?
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