Saturday, January 28, 2006

And Once Again, the Lost Highway Beckons


I'll be taking a few days off from work. I'll be getting out of town. I'm going to try to put the universe back into order, those pieces that will still fit somewhere. The others, the ones with no fit, I must part with for good. But first, the long and lonesome highway lies before me, an increasingly familiar companion on my journey from one alone to another. So to the highway. Again.

Saturday, January 21, 2006

I Really Would Like to Get the Hell Out of Here, Pt. II

I miss the Coast. As the days pass, however, something tells me that the place I was once, I am never to know again.
I am cut out to be a teacher; I know this about myself. It is the one thing that I do well, the one thing that I have my head on straight about; the one thing that I long to do. So many of the people who call themselves educators or incompetent, or simply serving some agenda of their own, with no care for their students, or for the truth.
So, I must ask myself, and take hardf stock of my answer, why am I not lecturing somewhere?
I have to get busy with the business that lies before me, and, as always, as there have been, and will always be, there are hurdles to be overcome. So I must get to it.

Friday, January 20, 2006

A Pause for the Cause

Got a surprise day off from work. Going to take some time for just me. Going to sit here in the house and do...not too much today. Gonna drink a few beers, and think some thoughts. Play some games and keep it light. Listen to some tunes and dream some dreams. Tomorrow is tomorrow's worry. Trying to baby this new year and see if it turns out to be something. We'll see. But not today.

Monday, January 09, 2006

Shout out to GSR in Sin City


My buddy of many years is out livin' it laughin' it lovin' it on The Strip, bumpin' with porn starlets and exuding effortless cool. He is graciously calling to keep me posted on his exploits, and we are already planning a return trip for this April when the leaves are ripe and the ladies are dressing more...casual. No problemo, as far as the Rev. is concerned. Can't wait to get my knuckles kissed by the requisite lucky redhead; here's to the man, and I can't wait to see you bro, upon your return. Keep the Faith.

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Free Manuel Bartsch !!!!


THIS
is an outrage! A European highschool student here in the USA, who thinks he's a US citizen, just like you and me, is in jail because his "step-grandfather" didn't fill out some paperwork years ago.

...what the hell is going on here? The kid in question is of German descent. I want the person who put this kid in jail, in jail. I want to attend this kid's graduation. I want this never to have happened. This is the kind of retarded stuff that goes on in W Bush America, and the reason that people like me dreaded its coming. I'm sorry, kid. This is not the America that my father fought to save.

I'm embarressed and angry. I wish that there was more I could do.
Good luck to you. Anybody who reads this, get pissed off and make a noise. Show this kid that the USA is better than this.

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Good News Bad News

It's a heavy world, man; once you are in the race, you get to know people, get to know things, see the way it all works, and just when you are ready to settle in and start living, everything blows up in your face.
A dear friend of mine's mom passed away recently, and due to the fact that my @#$&! phone is playing hooky, I didn't hear until she and JR came by, days later to let me know. Phone's still out; made me miss new year's calls from everyone else, too. Trying to get in touch with Bellsouth today. Of course, the bastards still want their monthly charges, even if their service sucks and I haven't been able to use it for a week. Oddly enough I am still online...?
The pic at left is from a Richard Cheese album cover. If you haven't heard "Down with the Sickness," man you don't know what you're missing. So come one, get up, get down with the sickness....................................................

Sunday, January 01, 2006

We are met at the dawn of a new day

A new year begins! A new year is always a time of great ambivalence, since we get to look behind us, but the future is a blank space, a dark tunnel, an empty highway. We cannot know what new faces people our tomorrows, what new sight awaits, just out of our range of vision. We can only stumble on into the darkness, and hope that it leads us to a light. The adventure of life is to walk into the unknown, and after all, every morning is a door into the new, like the man said who stood at the gate of the year said. So tomorrow, we arise anew to what new visions, no one can say...