Raised Relief

Just a pinch

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Doubt is a real sunnavabitch.

It piles up around your ankles each day beginning the moment you step out of bed and eddies around you like dust particles caught in the sunlight.

Spend about five minutes trawling the Internet or watching TV and elements of the reality you’ve come to accept as, well, actually real will be challenged. Inside the rabbit hole of constantly available endlessly mercurial public discourse, we are told that our senses, education and recollection are to be held in the highest suspicion.

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Breaker Breaker. Do you copy?

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The battery in my truck was dead the other night and I was late for a concert. My girlfriend was kind enough to let me borrow her car for the evening. I’m unfamiliar with the stereo system in her vehicle... Read More ›

Now thinking

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Silently contemplating the similarity of their respective fates, a chilly wind blows through the drying needles of unadorned Christmas trees and whistles over top of empty champagne bottles laying out by the curb for pick-up. Wax droplets from Hanukkah, Kwanzaa... Read More ›

Mother Maria

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I was playing guitar with my girlfriend in the front room the other day. We were picking out a Lyle Lovett tune we’re both fond of called “South Texas Girl.” It’s a near perfect little Kodachrome snapshot of a tune... Read More ›

Unburdened at least

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Even if it was a psycho-spiritual shell game designed to reinforce the Church’s symbolic dominion over my individual salvation, going to confession did offer an opportunity to periodically relieve my conscience and reflect on my actions. I remember sort of... Read More ›

This don’t feel like a party

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I voted for Ralph Nader in each of the last three election cycles, and I’m unrepentant. I am opposed to a two-party system that stages elaborate moral and ideological pantomimes while, offstage, corporations play/pay both sides and lobby themselves into... Read More ›

Start making sense

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A few weeks back, in a prematurely old man-esque bid to stay in touch with “what the kids are listening to these days,” I followed the “Hot Video Pick of the Week” link on Yahoo! Sews (the abysmal effects of... Read More ›

Strangers and their dogs

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I am a dog owner who moonlights as a bush-league misanthrope. These combined circumstances, in addition to my habit of sitting as far away from humans as possible with my nose in a book, tend to position me as something... Read More ›

Damn the torpor torpedoes

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The last couple of weeks have not been the most flattering in my life. My lady friend left on a long trip at the end of August and, like a B-horror movie segue sequence, the quasi-respectable, allegedly adult, humanoid appearance... Read More ›