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The Mystery of Bo Fontana

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Everyone gets junk letters in the mail. They can be the local mass-advertising, they can be political campaigns, they might just be credit cards and pre-approved drivel… Maybe magazine subscriptions, renewal notices and the occasional national group trying to recruit members.
And for somewhere close to 10 years, through the ridiculousness and annoyance of [...]

It’s obvious to the entire world…

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

…but still some people don’t get it.
The truth is out there. You may not accept it, but then again there are some people that don’t accept men landed on the moon, or the Holocaust, or that New Coke sucked.

outrageous, meet indifference

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Tommy over at Sticks of Fire pointed out the falling standards of Florida’s education system a few weeks back.  I’m not going to rehash it or add to it (as I already did in the comments of said thread).  It’s the responses that have me a little put off.
When snark and sarcasm are employed on [...]

What I’ve learned

Monday, July 21st, 2008

You know, I wanted to write a long post about moving on from this ill-communication SNAFU that’s led to me drawing myself into a shell and feeling like someone died. Someone was snuffed out, and the person holding the gun simply said “oops” after the body hit the floor, hid it, and then announced [...]

The low and high

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

it was Thursday night where I think I turned a corner on my funk. I am not in a good place still, but part of my turn for the better was finding a song that I identified with that wasn’t entirely a mope. It said exactly what I was feeling.
I’ve known it for [...]

It tells a tale

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

It was a couple of years ago that I was wondering just what Michael Stipe was singing about in the R.E.M. classic “Losing my Religion”. For the prudes or the ultra-religious, the title might suggest the song is about a conflict in faith of the Divine. It’s a crisis of faith, indeed, but [...]

View to a mood

Monday, July 14th, 2008

I haven’t blogged in a while as I have been busy with other faccets of my life…  From politics to just internet de3ign and maintenance, I’ve been a busy little bee.
But due to recent circumstances — the other shoe falling — I’m back for the moment and maybe longer. 
I read John Densmore’s Riders on [...]