2010 Mastodon Weekend
This morning I awoke to a text from Al. “Bad beat,” he wrote. “Room won’t be ready until 3pm.” He’d been on the road all night and hadn’t slept. The hotel at which he...
Category: Friends
The Dive
Part 4 of the November iPhone Photo Project … aka…NaNo-iPho June 2009 The night before Phish hit Asheville, NC, some friends were in town to get an early start on the fun. Part of...
Friday Mental Massage: Blind items
This week’s Friday Mental Massage comes less than 24 hours before I’ll be packing the car and moving to the beach for a week. Work won’t allow this to be a full-fledged vacation, but...
Murph’s Law
Eventually, the halluciantions become so routine that you learn to anticipate them. Instead of flinching at the giant bird swooping down to eat your eyes, you take an early step to the left and...
My phirst time
Trey Anastasio might be the world’s greatest hypnotist. It takes talent to put just one person under a spell. The power of suggestion can sometimes be enough for a stand-up hypnotist to control a...
Frolf body
I rolled over this morning and wished I’d had a mirror nearby. By all indications, I’d been in a car wreck, and I wanted to know how bad it had been. Had my beautiful...
Twitter, Facebook, and biscuits
My grandparents live on a county road in southwest Missouri. My great uncle lives just behind them, just across a dirt road. My mom’s cousin lives a couple of places down. When we buried...
Ghosts
We didn’t go to Cabo for Spring Break. Daytona Beach never made the list. If somebody had mentioned Cancun, we probably would’ve yawned. Why, I can’t say for sure. We were surely as drunk...
Helping where you can
What you see on the left is about 1/3 of what it takes to make a meal for 20 people. One of our neighbors is going through a really horrible thing right now. I...
Mastodon Weekend: Devoted to devolution
It was a cold rain by the time I fell asleep Saturday night. By Sunday afternoon, half-dollar sized flakes were dropping from the sky with nothing resembling grace. It was a wet, sloppy snow...
Recovery
I just spent an amazing weekend with some amazing friends. I may get around to writing about it at some point. Right now, I have a lot of stuff to catch up on. In...
Devolving
It all started when a friend named Al needed to get out of Philly for a while. His life had taken a few turns and he was planning to go to the Keys and...
Friday Mental Massage: The hits keep on coming edition
We haven’t done a Friday Mental Massage in some time, so let’s pound one out–primarily because I’m in desperate need of a real massage. I tweaked something in my neck/back six days ago. On...
At ease, soldier
I had a number of things I wanted to write about today, but nothing seems more important than this. My buddy Daly is now officially at ease. That’s him today with his discharge papers....