Check-In : Extended-Release Anxiety

Man, this week has not been the best. Started out Sunday where I had that weird little twinge in the pit of my stomach that usually indicates anxiety is just around the corner. Ended up going to the Y and walked three miles which helped that twinge. It went away, thankfully. But once I got […]

Wishful Thinking(Monday Thoughts)

I had a dream late last week that I’d gotten a call at work from someone wanting to hire me. It was the company that we currently share a building with. This medical company out of Kentwood, MI actually bought our facility when my employer was planning on closing and moving our manufacturing to Costa […]

Megadeth : Megadeth

Dave Mustaine had said earlier last year that the next Megadeth album would be the last. At 64-years old the speed metal icon has seen, drank, ingested and experienced more life than most do in their entire time on this rock. Between decades of addiction, battles with fellow metalheads(including fans), a revolving door of musicians […]

Bitter Cold Everywhere

It was another tragic and infuriating weekend here in the US. If you saw the news you would have heard about a 37-year old VA nurse who was unarmed by ICE, then as he lay on the ground after a mob of these so called “law enforcement officers” beat him, pepper sprayed him, and then […]

Long Week, Quiet Weekend, Another Throat Punch From Jack Frost, Another Brick In The Wall

It’s been a long week. The cross training continues at work, with my second week learning the many laborious facets of shipping. I’m done already with this crap, and there’s still more to be dumped upon me. My workmate of nearly 27 years told me he’s retiring May 1st. Said he can’t do this cross […]

It’s Cold. Stay In. Drink Coffee. Make Art.

Just a little reminder that we’re going thru a bit of a cold spell here in the Midwest. Supposed to last through the week. Currently in the pre-Dawn hours the windchill is making it feel in the negatives. This is not conducive to wanting to leave my bed, let alone my house. Yesterday I spent […]

‘Emergency!’ : The Tony Williams Lifetime

Tony Williams was my first jazz drummer hero. I discovered him on Miles Davis’ Nefertiti, which was the first Miles Davis album I bought. I loved his nuanced playing; intricate and informed while still having a lot of power behind the set. When Nefertiti was released in 1967 Tony Williams was all of 22 years […]

Check IN : Greetings From Thunderdome

The only thing missing from America’s post-apocalyptic dystopia would be that big old mushroom cloud to give us the right amount of burnt-up mutants, rebuilt 70s muscle cars into destruction derby cruisers, and of course the great Tina Turner(RIP). The bombs have yet to drop and there seems to be plenty of gas(and more on […]

Lovelock’s ‘Business And Pleasure’

So do you remember that scene in Tom Holland’s great Fright Night when Chris Sarandon’s suave and terrifying vampire Jerry Dandridge seduces Charlie Brewster’s girlfriend Amy Peterson back at his lair? The music playing was sexy, sultry, and mildly disconcerting, a vibe of both “come hither” and “run for your life” all in the same […]

Set The World Afire

Just when you think you’ve gotten past one major calamity, of course another decided to pop up and say “Hold my beer…”. What’s going on in the country that I call home is beyond the pale. Armed, masked weekend warriors pulling brown-skinned people off the streets and disappearing them is really bad. For one it’s […]

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