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Go Right Ahead
[Image: note dropped by South Vietnamese Air Force Major Buang-Ly onto the deck of the USS Midway on April 30, 1975. It says, "Can you move the Helicopter to the other side, I can land on your runway, I can fly 1 hour more, we have enough time to mouve. Please rescue me. Major Buang, [...]
Midweek Music Break: Gabrielle Roth and the Mirrors, “The Calling”
Years ago, The Missus and I first encountered — the verb carefully chosen — Gabrielle Roth and the Mirrors via a local greeting-card store known not just for its offbeat card assortment, but also for its soundtrack. “What is that?” we asked the proprietor, and he directed us to the Bones CD propped up by the [...]
When Non-English-Speaking Sp*mmers and Roget Collide
Sp*m comment o’the day: I’m not lily-livered of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not match to an idea. This is the primary error of the pretended “scientific” mind. People who howler facts for ideas are undone thinkers; they are gossip. I’m not scared of facts, I appreciated facts but a [...]
A Crowded Vacuum
[Image: Giorgio de Chirico, Melancholy and Mystery of a Street] From whiskey river: The River This is my formula for the fall of things: we come to a river we always knew we’d have to cross. It ferries the twilight down through fieldworks of corn and half-blown sunflowers. The only sounds, one lost cicada calling [...]
Midweek Music Break: Shook Twins, “Rose”
[No, I don't know what the deal is with the egg. Clearly this is either (a) a sisterly in-joke or (b) an object of powerfully mystical significance. Maybe a little of both.] Simply presented with the lyrics to The Shook Twins’ song “Rose,” absent the music, a discerning reader might figure it as some sort [...]
Perfect Moments: “I Shot ‘im, Paw.”
The house in which The Missus and I live now is over twenty years old, as is our immediate neighborhood. But the area in general has only recently started to get built up. Real honest-to-gods wildlife, not yet squeezed out by housing and new roads, can still be spotted here and there — foxes, a [...]
Alien You
From whiskey river: One Source of Bad Information There’s a boy in you about three Years old who hasn’t learned a thing for thirty Thousand years. Sometimes it’s a girl. This child has to make up its mind How to save you from death. He said things like: “Stay home. Avoid elevators. Eat only elk.” [...]
Midweek Music Break: Haunting Songs
I noticed a few months back that The Missus and I have a favorite way to describe certain music. Haunting, one of us will say, and the other will nod. A very haunting sound. Haunting lyrics, aren’t they? And so on. The ingredients which go into making a song haunting, vs. all the other ways it [...]
Real-Life Dialogue: Wardrobe Culling Edition
[The scene: a suburban home in North Florida, USA. He has stayed home from work on this day to prepare a guest bedroom for painting. In this guest bedroom is a closet, and in the closet are His clothes. All of them. Woven shirts, knit shirts, jeans, suits, ties, socks, underwear, shoes... It's not a [...]
Admin: Clearing Up Some RAMH Clutter, Part 4
Updated theme’s in place. Some slightly flaky stuff going on, mostly due to my (BAD) habit of putting posts into more than one category. There are also a handful of customized styles I want to carry forward from the old theme to the new. Hope to fix those things at some point, but for now I’ll [...]
