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Home. Place.

I am at home. I do not do much writing here anymore. After a few days away from the office, I let myself try to make this place feel like that word: Home. I don’t know if I can. This place, the space with its hunkering...

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Longboard

Today’s cull was long awaited. For months, it sat on the kitchen floor, creating something...

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Filling up

The PBX encountered something I never thought it would. It filled to capacity with .wav files, every last one of them needless and superfluous since I eliminated the “glitch” that was not a glitch. Or did I eliminate...

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I Don’t Know What That Is.

I had a horrible Thursday. Something I ate was not good. Had to be some nasty Sweet Tarts candies, but not the usual kind. Some spinoff of the core product in a pill-like form. Had my stomach feeling like a knot, this days after...

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Feeling out of place

Yesterday, as with most days, I started writing a bit of whatever, some mental detritus from the pulpit of solitude, when somehow it all vanished. Several sentences of carefully planned, thought-out, pre-chewed then...

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What the hell is this?

I spotted this object outside a school. On account of its location I assumed it to be a table game or some sort of educational contraption. Reverse image search turned up a variety of table games. I don’t think this is a...

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Rough Night

Dreams were rough and tumble. A homeless dude decided there was a lot of money in my bag and he wanted it. There was no money in my bag so instead he wanted my water. I carry an 8oz. bottle everywhere in case I need to take a...

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Three of us

Only two of us were in the bed. So I knew it could not be her standing over us, reaching down and grabbing our shoulders in repeated attempts to throw us out the door and into the neighbor’s back yard. I woke up, startled...

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Porest FaRK

Getting my Forest Park video ready. It ended up being almost an hour. I have other videos from earlier. I don’t know why I went ahead with this one first but it’s not like I’m on any kind of deadline. As I...

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People Talk

I think it’s food. All anyone talks about is food. Indirectly, when discussing the nuclear...

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Smoke

Apparently there was a smoke condition along the 4/5/6 lines today So they shut off the air conditioning. This quickly made conditions very uncomfortable. I almost immediately started sweating, and I was seated. The lack of a/c...

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Friday

Nothing new to say today. Like most days. I saw something on my work schedule for next week that took me 24 hours to question. I have a full day of “TRAINING” but I know not what this is for. If it’s what I...

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Somethingness

When one of the people who usually sits near me did not show up for a couple of days I’d assumed he was fired. That’s how it goes here. Nice guy, mild-mannered, here one day, gone the next. Turns out he was not...

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Foodz

Dookie Cough Cot Hoffee Gubble Bum Peck Blapper Cap Cukes Trench Foast Rathboom Whole Wheat Claw Rams Muna Telt Spanana Blit Chork Pops Cab Crakes Dot Hog Mocolate Chilk Robster Loll Ficken Chingers Steese Chicks Schneach Papps...

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July

I paid the rent. Made amends. Now I catalog the crises. Time to get repairs. Time to face the...

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Rambles

No purpose to this day. Requested time off from work but it looks like I picked a rain day. No...

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Tocking

Inconvenient, sometimes, this nonsense of living. Opened a container of pasta salad and drops of water flicked up onto my face. Made me angry but I ate the pasta salad anyway. It didn’t deserve me. The salad itself is not...

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Secrets

Everybody has secrets. I am an amputee. You can’t see where my limbs have been removed but I feel their absence continuously. Gone is the long, whipping tail that used to entertain and thrill spiders and snakes. Gone from...

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Serve

I’m in connection with a woman whose avatar says “MEN EXIST TO SERVE WOMEN.” I’ve started the discussion in which we may or may not get to the bottom of what she means by that, and by making it her...

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2014’s 9/11 Spike Was Weird

This bar graph showing the spike in web traffic one of my sites got on September 11 and September 12, 2014 somewhat eerily evokes the profile of the old Twin Towers.

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Sunday Sunday

What is Sunday to me now? Now compared to past iterations, past experiences. It had always been a day of melancholy, and dispute. Dispute with myself, argument, determination of goals versus inevitable journeys. I had no goals,...

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On the phone

I ended up with three days straight not at the job. I felt unmoored and directionless, as i the...

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An Abruption

I used to make up words like this. I still do but not for anyone else’s bemusement. I used...

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I Thought This Would Be Fun. It Was Bothersome.

I was actually starting to have some confidence in the newest version of ChatGPT. I thought asking it to write a poem in the style of Markovian Parallax Denigrate, the gibberish-spewing Usenet mystery from the 1990s, would be a...

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Not for Nostalgia…

…but I ended up on the Upper West Side today, in search of nothing specific, although I guess it was pretty specific, but not worth describing. Out of habit I revisited my old stomping grounds, including the enshrined,...

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Shady Looking School Bus

Spotted this while tooling around on Streetview, comparing it to CycloMedia. I don’t have kids but if I did I wouldn’t want them riding this strange looking beast.  

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Looking into the past

On rain days like today, when it’s just barely raining, I remove my glasses and stuff them into a pocket, or someplace where they won’t collect the litter-like detritus of the gleeky rain. I am always surprised at...

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Ponti

I only learned recently that Michael Ponti died in October, at 84. He was a high school hero of mine, raising unknown composers like Alkan, Henselt, Liaponov and countless others up from the ashes of history’s neglect,...

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Trying something new

For years too many I relied on posting to this website from the .MOBI principle. Everything was posted from someplace other than the home PC. Well, almost everything. My old .MOBI was my favorite website I ever put together. It...

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Still waiting for the rain. January 22, 2023

Another rain day. Maybe not a bad thing. I will have to exit the property for beer and rations, but otherwise this could be another day in which I do not leave the apartment ever, not once. Save that little bit of wear and tear...

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Rubbish

I am on a street in Sunnyside, Queens, the City of cities, the reflecting pool of the world, When a jumbled reminiscence hurries in. A rubbish removal company has parked its vans Outside a house. Odds and ends of a life are...

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Leave

At home today. Maybe all day. Maybe all week, all year, all life. Feeling the pull, away from the job I so wanted. You could even say it was a dream job of mine. It has not morphed into a nightmare. It’s not like that....

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Small Things Move

The passage of my feet over a small piece of rug in the bathroom causes the rug to move a fraction of an inch with every contact. I do not aggressively move the piece of material. I don’t consider it, not much at least,...

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Found Hell On Earth For Rats in Bellerose (Gross)

I originally posted this to YouTube but decided it was not appropriate for that platform. Nobody complained, exactly. I mean, no one reported it for being disgusting. But one comment was enough to make me decide it was better...

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988: Don’t Do It.

No thanks. The last time I called the suicide hotline I ended up naked on the cold concrete floor of a holding cell and fined $274. Because feeling hopeless is criminal in Texas. So same shit, different phone number? I'll...

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Trying to be a Source. Failing.

July 12 2016 Peter – This might not get to you before you head out for vacation, but I just passed the stretch of 13th Street that we talked about earlier, with all the abandoned cars. A few new strange twists since the...

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