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about me

Co-Chairman of the "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" Comittee, The Tower of Power

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Drinks on the porch

Who doesn't like a good gin and tonic on the veranda? Or a copy of the Sunday paper on your lap, as you chuck the want ads and employment listings and go straight for the funnies? The life spent in quiet, comtemplative reflection, is life spent away from what officially "matters." What "matters", of course, is up for grabs.

What matters in my mind is a thick book, filled with the signs of Odin tied to Yddgrasil, or Dante raising his head and seeing the horrors and pleasures of the universe, or Gilgamesh and Endiku wrestling for pride, or of Roland, who with his last breath, chucks his pride and blows the Oliphant. Of Tamburlaine, Odysseus, and the Redcrosse Knight; of Xanadu, the Country of the Blind, and the House of Jaguars.

History and fiction are sometimes converging, sometimes divergent. But they are the stories that we tell of ourselves, where we (think) we have been, where we are, and our general location tomorrow. The continuum of mankind: that's me, in the proverbial nutshell.

And I do a spot on impersonation of Bill Cosby. Can't forget that.

My Recent Activity

Re: This is a sacred and solemn event; please... (in Playa Del Fuego) Yeah. My favorite picture of the totem burn that I took wasn't necessarily of the actual burn itself...it was Quentin, sitting on the ground, looking like Santa Claus dumped the contents of FAO Schwartz on the burn pad.

discussion post on Mon, June 2, 2008 - 7:19 AM

Re: Photographs (in Playa Del Fuego) Lars, I can't stop laughing, but in a good way. You captured me in all my "resplendent" glory playing with the tetherball, and Doug, for whatever reason looks like Thom Yorke with the weedburner. Fantastic pictures all around.

Gerald

discussion post on Mon, June 2, 2008 - 6:09 AM

Re: Flipside Report (in PEX - The Philadelphia Experiment) That's Headley!

discussion post on Sat, May 31, 2008 - 2:23 PM

Re: Camp Tower of Power and other Pictures (in Playa Del Fuego) That would be campmate Doug and his little ol' iBook.

discussion post on Wed, May 28, 2008 - 5:43 PM

Re: We missed you. (in PEX - The Philadelphia Experiment) Yes. We damn well did. Or so the general consensus has been made.

discussion post on Wed, May 28, 2008 - 2:55 PM

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My Blog

(Re)collections of a packrat

Rampant paranoia! Unfounded speculation! Incipient insanity!

...now that I've gotten that out of my system, I was recently thinking about the mutability of the things we hold onto over the years, as most recently expressed in a desire to amass, label and catalogue a digitized collection of 36,000 songs (attained through very legal means: ranging from proper borrowings, to 17 years of personal CD buying, to the collections of friends and family)

But I suppose it holds over to other thi... read more

Fri, October 12, 2007 - 8:49 PM permalink - 0 comments

A poeme of Olde Antiquity

(To the Reader: The Poem you are to Read was Fixed by a Lonely Scribe, who in a fit of Madness, brought on by a Lack of Sleep, the incessant Drone of Self-Promotion, a Copy of the Venerable Tome "QUO VADIS", and a TV GUIDE in a Checkout Line in a TARGET Department Store, Did see these Words, as if in a Fev'rish Dream, or as if some "ANCIEN MARINER" or "IMPASSIONED SCULPTOR WHO WELL THESE PASSIONS READ" or "CONQUERING WORM" were Treading on his Dura Mater. Feeling the Need to Impart such Wisdo... read more

Thu, October 11, 2007 - 5:23 PM permalink - 0 comments

From the Archive

A Scene with a Lady
(with apologies to Mr. Browning)

I left you there,
I could have drawn back, but in the end
I found my place, far removed from your castle.

Rumors? Gossip? And a pretty question:
"Will he or won't he?"
A very fine question, that:
one that leaves as much unsaid
as unanswered, in the very end
of the thing.

You speak of the artist and of your form.
Why should we draw scenes of the same thing?
Canvas of burnt leaves, or laughing children?
Or seasons spent... read more

Thu, October 11, 2007 - 5:21 PM permalink - 0 comments

Beat the Clock: My Life as a Pinmonkey

While the first "Beat the Clock" entry in my 'blog was more a one off-story, I've decided to keep the title and write about weird jobs that I have had over the years.

As a smart man once said, your entire outlook on work changes the first time you're up to your ankles in raw human sewage. That, and as another smart man once told me in the midst of cleaning that pool of filth, you quickly learn, while using an electric pump to drain said shitpool, just which end of the hose is the "sweet" ... read more

Mon, April 16, 2007 - 7:36 PM permalink - 0 comments

Beat The Clock! (Part 1)

There have been a few times when I haved worked with my father where there was the impending sense of "Wow, did we dodge a bullet" after the job was complete The two times I can remember offhand involved a deadline, usually against a naturally ocurring phenomenon, in sub-optimal conditions, etc.

The first was back in 1998. We had done a favor for a friend in doing a dog simple rooftop unit swap for his store in a strip mall, where once the crane was brought out, it was a simple matter of... read more

Wed, March 7, 2007 - 6:27 PM permalink - 0 comments

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