Monthly Archives: September 2020

The Association: Along Comes Mary

This song is more about the lyrics than the sweet melody. They crammed a hell of a lot of poetry in there. Slipping metaphor in between simple hand claps like a knife in the dark. One of my all time … Continue reading

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PredictIt Update

RGB’s death played a role in my next PredictIt Market. I had a few shares in “Will Trump’s next Supreme Court nominee be a woman?” I bet YES. I made that bet about a year and a half ago. The … Continue reading

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PredictIt Update

Well, here we are. The year 2020 never fails to deliver drama. A couple weeks ago I mentioned a few of my positions on PredictIt: “I’m holding 20 shares of RUTH BADER GINSBERG as the next one to leave the … Continue reading

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Dave Brubeck: Take Five

It’s Friday. Time to chill the fuck out. Pour a glass of whiskey neat, light a cigar, kick back… and just listen. You won’t do anything better with the next five minutes of your life.

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Curmudgeon and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: Part 2

I’d been ill all week. Bad air hammered me until I felt dazed. Restless, I inspected my “landscaping” from the day before. It could’ve been a notable accomplishment but I’d done it on autopilot. I’d been sloppy and haphazard. Not … Continue reading

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Curmudgeon and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: Part 1

The best part of having kids is reading them stories. My favorite was Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. If your kids (or grand kids) are of the right age, read it to them. Like Alexander, … Continue reading

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PredictIt Update

[Note: This post was written a couple weeks ago. I didn’t post it at the time because I felt we’d all had too much politics. I’m posting it now because we’ve briefly trailed off a local peak in the endless … Continue reading

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Various Distractions

So, society is still punching itself in the balls; and today’s a bigger disaster than yesterday? Ho hum. I tune out because nobody sane likes to roll about in mass tantrums. Rather than address the endless shitstorm of 2020, about … Continue reading

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