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Paterno Is Dead and I Don't Feel so Good Myself

I know a man who is a convicted sex-offender. He molested his grand-daughter and spent several years as a guest of the State for doing so. Hes paid his debt to the Justice System, but not to Society. He is listed on the Sex Offender Registry, has taken shit from neighbors and some people dont want him around anymore.

I know somebody who was sexually abused by her father. He wasnt prosecuted, even though there was sufficient evidence to do so because the victim didnt want to testify in court...

Paterno Is Dead and I dont Feel so Good Myself

I know a man who is a convicted sex-offender. He molested his grand-daughter and spent several years as a guest of the State for doing so. Hes paid his debt to the Justice System, but not to Society. He is listed on the Sex Offender Registry, has taken shit from neighbors and some people dont want him around anymore.

I know somebody who was sexually abused by her father. He wasnt prosecuted, even though there was sufficient evidence to do so because the victim didnt want to testify in...

It's Sunday And My Notebook Pages Are Still Blank So I Typed This Up Instead

I read a marvelous post close to a month ago, penned (does one who types still get credit for penning?) by @rkrystalli at Stories of Conflict and Love about the reminders of the past year.  My comment mentioned how I also keep little bits of ephemera and errata and slap them in my notebooks.  Roxanne directed me to another post she had written about notebooks.  It was about more than notebooks, of course.  It was about how She uses notebooks and writes her life.  She let us inside her life...

Three Thoughts for Saturday 1/21/12

Three weeks into 2012 and I wonder how people are doing with their New Year's Delusions so far.I was watching a TV show where one of the characters mother was driving him nuts.  It struck me that the best part of my mother being gone is she can't do that to me anymore.  I immediately realized this is the worst part of her being gone.It's funny how listening to the songs of one artist can create an earworm out of a song by somebody else.  Case in point, after listening to the new Alex Chilton...

Three Thoughts for Saturday 1/14

 

While still a killer song, the lyrics to Van Halens song Hot for Teacher border on creepy to my almost 50 year old ears.
After years of fake snow on TV and in movies, real snow looks fake to me now. 
I become more like my father every year. This is a Good Thing.

 

Thanks for reading and I hope you had a good week!

The Well Meaning and Thoughtless, or How The Clueless Hurt More Than They Help

It was a quiet Tuesday evening.  I'd been to the doctor's office that day, talked about my meds, made the next appointment, grabbed some Chinese for dinner for me and my Mrs and wended me way home.  Shrimp Lo Mein, even at one of the ersatz "Chinese" places around here is a wonderful thing.  Fried Pot-Stickers as well.  Yum!

I'd watched NCIS and was trolling the internets when I saw this Tweet in my Timeline:

 

Thanks to Mary for permission to show this RT

 

Go back and read that again...

Was it really simpler? – Thoughts on Change and Dealing With it

One of the gifts I gave Elaine for Christmas was a new stereo for her car. The original unit played both CDs and cassettes, plus the usual AM/FM radio. The car is old enough that the stereo did not have an AUX input for mp3 players. Who needed one in 2000? On the drive home from Best Buy after having it installed, I got to thinking about how car audio has changed since I was younger.

I recall that car audio as simpler than now, but I really wonder about that. True, there were far fewer wires, ...

Was it really simpler?

One of the gifts I gave Elaine for Christmas was a new stereo for her car. The original unit played both CDs and cassettes, plus the usual AM/FM radio. The car is old enough that the stereo did not have an AUX input for mp3 players. Who needed one in 2000? On the drive home from Best Buy after having it installed, I got to thinking about how car audio has changed since I was younger.

I recall that car audio as simpler than now, but I really wonder about that. True, there were far fewer w...

2012 is for Enduring: A Depression Post

Depression still has a serious stranglehold on me.  I've been feeling better of late, yet it's misleading this feeling.  My physical well-being is a bit better.  I no longer hear suicidal whispers or feel drawn to my firearms.  I haven't wanted to medicate with copious quantities of alcohol.  Okay, that's a lie.  I've wanted to climb in a bottle of cheap whiskey and get stinking drunk for some time now.    Deep sea diving in the stuff, if I'm honest with myself.  However, I know that my...

Reverb11, Day 27 – Okay? I Hope Not…

 

Everything is going to be okay. -  What is one thing, a sign if you will, that has shown you  that things will be just fine in 2012?

I don't know that I believe everything will be "okay" in 2012.  Or ever, for that matter.  For when you look at it, defining "okay" is a tad rough.  It's a sop of sorts, if you will (and even if you won't).   Everything being "okay" implies so much and delivers so little.  It's ill-defined, vast and constricting all at once.  It's a promise and prison all in one w...