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June 6, 2020 in Philosophy, Psychology

Float Betwixt Vice and Virtue

In terms of innate potentiality, we are a totally depraved species. I have little trouble…

May 15, 2020 in Architecture + Objects, Philosophy

Communing with Our Environs

Someone once described my relationship to the house as one of rooted entwinement, that it…

May 8, 2020 in Science, Society

Miss the Disease for the Trees

Do you know what I do when there’s really damaging misinformation being touted, not the…

May 6, 2020 in Philosophy, Science

Living is Dying?

It’s tempting and sometimes even darkly humorous to call living dying, but in truth when…

May 6, 2020 in Aperçu, Coronatide

Unnurtured Nature

As we ponder human nature and our ability to comply, one wayward thought. We really…

May 5, 2020 in Aperçu, Autobiography

Akesis – Sybarisis

The central paradox of my life will, I predict, be the tandem sybaritic and ascetic…

April 16, 2020 in Aperçu, Autobiography

Compliments

He was a man for whom taking a compliment was the hardest thing in the…

April 16, 2020 in Coronatide, Society

Quarantino, Motherfuckers

The English word quarantine derives from the Italian quarantino for forty days, alluding to the…

April 2, 2020 in Aperçu, Society

Lapdogs of the Venal Press

Things that piss me off a little bit? Writing about some current event, examining and…

March 28, 2020 in Aperçu, Autobiography

The Cough

Standing six feet from the neighborhood pharmacy counter. Suppresses immediate urge to cough. Sweet Jesus,…

March 24, 2020 in Coronatide, Society

Remedies to Unpreparedness

Things the conservation-minded like myself have been peddling for what feels like millennia to lukewarm…

March 23, 2020 in Autobiography, Coronatide

A Facebook Précis

The way I welcomed a bunch of new Coronatide folks on Facebook, amusing enough to…

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Grandaddy Depression Man strikes again. The boys w $Grandaddy Depression Man strikes again. The boys were asked to collect soda can tabs, paper plates, and twist ties from bread bags to make tambourines for their music class. The number of soda can tabs we were able to generate was minimal, since we keep so little on hand. I haven’t had a paper plate in the house in a decade. Well, what Grandaddy Depression Man did have was a jar of old disks that had been die-cut from old tins, the purpose of which remains a mystery. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ They seemed like they might be useful. Shaddup. And Grandaddy Depression Man had paperboard which he’d salvaged like a maniac from an old college presentation. And Grandaddy Depression Man had balls of twine... so many balls of twine. What he did not have was much in the way of single-use disposables. I think the resulting homemade tambourines will be better for it.$

Broadcasting interweb church is stressful. Between

So, I came home to this juvenile opossum’s creep $So, I came home to this juvenile opossum’s creepy fat pink tail slinking over the porch ledge. She is currently camped out in the Japanese dwarf maple. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ They are such bizarre animals. Just bizarre.$

It begins… #firstdayofschool2020

All finished and in place!

Considerable progress has been made on the aforeme

Our friend asked me to fashion a work table for he

The neighbors invited us to have a bowl of Peking

Welp, we are ready for school. In this episode of

It may be #NationalDogDay, but there be maniraptor

Supplier for the “historic Boston Tea Parties.” 🤣 That’s some pretty brassy advertising spin you’re using there, fellas...

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I’d forgotten that I had a draft of these photos

$The wife done wrung a ring out of me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I mean, a second time. In her defense, her early 1940s engagement ring and wedding band were secreted into my possession after her grandmother’s death, so I kind of owe her some market-priced hand bling. Anyone who knows the missus knows she’s anachronistically devoted to strands of pearls — all the better to accompany all those A-line cocktail dresses, I ’spose. So, it’s no wonder really that she’s been coveting a finger-mounted cluster of concentric striations of oysters’ jowlings.$

For three years, I have received unmarked copies o

Made this brilliantly colored sauce with stewed Ca

For many years, I have been making do with fairly

Whenever we drive past this sign off I‑80 near Tan

One of my absolute favorite parks nearby is the Un

Late night ice cream run. #latergram

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