Well, after a raucous three-win streak, the Portland Trail Blazers have come back to earth.
General Manager Joe Cronin is not new to being dogged for a perceived lack of asset management acumen.
Our long recreational nightmare is over: Damian Lillard is no longer a Portland Trail Blazer. It almost doesn’t seem real, still. Even after seeing him in a Bucks jersey. And after the initial frustration and prolonged angst, I’m left with bittersweet feelings. Lillard was probably the greatest Trail Blazer in terms of records and sheer […]
Alright, first off, what the fuck am I doing? Tossing around that word analysis? Like my ass played basketball past the 8th grade or beyond the recreational level like some learned academic in the nonform arts of armchair psychology? Because goddamn there’s to be a lot of that stuff in here and I just want […]
So this it, my first official short story. I originally wrote this in 2019 in my journal while listening to This Is Happening with my roommate. Shortly after writing, I actually bought a typewriter. So this is probably more like a memoir. I’ve got like 5 other stories like this, all on A4 Paper, written […]
First things first: Rontoms makes a workman’s mojito. It might sound oxymoronic, and it’s certainly a jest, but that fast and dirty drink is old dependable for this hipster in grandpa casual getup needing a pick-me-up. Eight hours of sleep just didn’t do the job after spending 42 hours running alumni events for my college […]
Piano keys are still the heaviest instruments on Earth. Beurk if you must, but there is no other means to match the rank weight of percussion with the sincerity of melody, sheer and sustained. It is the return of the tempest, announced by the first goblet drops of water over the keyboard. “Hold on tight,” […]
Steve Kilbey has been doing this for a long time. The operative “this” meaning to make records. The functional “long time” meaning over forty years. All with the same band too: Australian cult rock group, The Church. The frontman might be graying and his beard might be wizarding, but he is still playing his bass. […]
What is left to say on the quality of The Dark Side of the Moon? It’s one of the greatest albums of all time? The magnum opus of the Pink Floyd discography? The most sublime production job of Alan Parsons’ career? The measuring stick for every sound buff’s next stereo system? The perfect accompaniment to […]
This was written on March 13th, around about midnight, after the Bill Schonely memorial. It was a late addendum to an already busy writing day, but one which needed to be written lest the memory of the Schonely not be fully laid to rest. He means a great deal to more than just my own […]
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