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…back in the sock drawer.

Today is Jim Morrison’s birthday and the anniversary of John Lennon’s death.

…and tomorrow is Ray’s birthday, in honor of which I have stolen this poem:

thanksgiving (revised)

I’m not one to give thanks

when things go my way,

for then I’d have to blow curses

every time it rains—

like a child banging

banging on his high chair

for his share of rapture

rapture for the day

and yet sometimes across the table

when everyone is there

and all slows down

and Silence bangs her soundless gavel

our mouths stuff with all the years at once

and the common realization

that all is here all is gone

all is temporary that’s all

And go go into the night

with the same wrinkles of my mom

the same wrinkles of my dad and chuckle

chuckle at this strange conspiracy at play,

this strange conspiracy that is dna

and wilder still at all beginnings

and endings.

And once more then once more

at the cold moon and the chill

of another mile alone,

for tonight you see

her soft pale memory

is enough.

Posted by ray sweatman November 23, 2024

Really.

The Boom Boom Room.

But not Jeneane’s Dot Boom Boom…

Open Sessume indeed!

Stowe Boyd grumbles about blog value at Get Real.  I’m with him.  The calc for Sandhill yields two results depending on whether I use http://sandhill.typepad.com/ or the http://sandhill.typepad.com/sandhill_trek/

Naturally, it was my inclination to add those values together.  I occasionally have to ping from sandhill.typepad.com when I think I’ve written something just jeepers-swell.  That’s another aspect of whatever it is that typepad is doing to make me schizo-bloggic.

Let me put that another way.  If somebody links to me in a blogroll that shows last update stx and they use the sandhill.typepad.com address, then my updates will not show up in their blogroll unless I run a manual ping when I post.

Real techies probably have this all figured out and just add a line to their code somewhere.  Not me… I’m a do-it-the-hard-way kind of guy.

[Disclosure:  the combined value of the sandhill addresses is worth about half of Get Real.]

Thanks to RB for the term.  Siddhi slickers… he cracks me up!

Tyrant Mizar is calling it quits…  for now.  I hope TM keeps blogging and that he finds a congenial crowd online.  With practice his writing will improve and one day, one day he might be the biggest blogger of us all!  Rilly.  I mean that too.

This blog failed because I failed to account for more than just video
games. I realize now that I need to create a blog with a broad scope in
order for me to maintain it. If you do see me blogging again, it will
be a fresh start.

It distracts from the game, it distracts from homecoming …

Can you understand why Bobby Grunenwald just had to punch somebody?