Six O’Clock Vintage

Seek those images that constitute the wild, the lion and the virgin, the harlot and the child. Find in middle air an eagle on the wing, recognize the five that make the Muses sing. | W.B Yeats, Those Images

Molotov Cocktail

Independence day is nearly here. It is about this time of year that every sane male turns into a pyro; this is something my mom never understood. When I wanted to go buy fireworks she callously suggested that money spent on fireworks was akin to burning a $20 spot.Speaking of ...

Executive Decisions

I thought about posting last night, but thunder and lighting were dueling in the sky. So I decided to eavesdrop instead.I'm looking for a job it's true. Killing my eyes with deadly computer monitor rays, clicking away at elusive postings, dirtying my hands with gritty dark newsprint--I hope for your ...

A Submission

I haven't written for quite a while it seems. It's been hard to find motivation or desire to write, though things have happened and I've been reading good material. Perhaps blogging is transitioning into a "discipline" phase.The story of late has been that of cruel monotonous job searching. Résumé after ...

Static on the Line

It all began with a phone call.Cheerful banter; jokes; moments of intimate profundity transpiring toward playfulness. A conversation between lovers, what else? Heartfelt exchanges facilitated by radiowaves and batteries, Britt and I enjoying our relational community through one sense--the sense of sound.She was on her way home to where I ...

Ode to an Antihero

It's not that you'reCaught between virtue and viceIt's that you lie stillScratch a little, as if looking for lice.Have I mentioned how beautiful you are,Your eyes reflecting in the moon?You're like a stillborn butterflyStuck and dying in its cocoon.H is for Harmartia,Is it fate-driven or choice?The only tragedy hereIs your ...

Hard Back

I acquired 7 more highly treasured books for my rapidly expanding library yesterday. I had had my eyes on these particular books for several months and the only thing that kept me from snatching them up earlier was the price which, though a superb bargain, was somewhat prohibitive to me. ...

Imagery

Infinite regression has been upgraded. Like the new look?

Terra Cotta

There have been passages of sheer brilliance in Kundera's Joke. I've been fascinated so much that I went and purchased another of his books today. I don't know much about this latest book other than that it is endowed with perhaps the greatest title possible; one that speaks of a ...

Masks

My year in review claimed victory in a year of blogging; my silence since then hasn't exactly gotten this year off to a running start textually wise, but I've been busy with other things. I just returned from a successful wedding-shower marathon in Minnesota. I wasn't invited to any of ...

August 13th 2008
Tags: Asides

“You’re a Phony, a Big Fat Phony! Hey Everybody, He’s a Phony!”

I know that China is the home of iPhone rip-offs and lead-filled Colgate, but it appears that their duplicity and fakery  don't end with electronics and domestic household products. China admitted faking the opening fireworks of the Olympic Opening Ceremony as well as faking the voice of the cute little singer ...
August 6th 2008
Tags: Asides

Mountain Lion Drags Dog out of Owner’s Bedroom

Crazy story, this is a small front range town just southwest of the Denver area.  I go mountain biking in this area all the time. A mountain lion slunk into the master bedroom of an Idledale home early Monday, snatched a yellow Labrador retriever and vanished. Officers are hunting the mountain lion ...
July 14th 2008
Tags: Tech

iPhone Apps

I spent the weekend at a cabin in the mountains and so didn't get a chance to download the the latest iPhone software update until late Sunday evening.  After a frustrating flurrey of "restore, verify, restore" proceedings I finally was forced to delete by back up and do a full ...
July 3rd 2008
Tags: Asides

The Fattest States in America

Another reason to move to Colorado, the home of lean, well-muscled and tan super people :)
June 30th 2008
Tags: Adventure, Stories

Flat Tires

I keep getting flat tires during my rides. In less than a month I've gotten two flats in remote sections of each ride's respective trail.  The first flat was on Three Sisters trail in Evergreen.  I somehow managed to rip a huge gash in my tube and found myself pedaling on ...