Category Archives: bricolage

Tact

Mr. Welch: ‘You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?’

Religion

So, I am not religious, but I went to a Disciple of Christ school, and so, perhaps through osmosis, learned a thing or two about religion. My personal thought on religion is if you are not handling snakes you are a dilettante as far as Jesus goes. There is a religion where the [...]

I never thought there would be so many

HowManyOfMe.com

There are966 people with my name in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

American Anaesthetics

American Anaesthetics
by Jonathan Holden
In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of heroes.
All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home.
Their women cluck like starved pullets,
Dying for love.
Therefore,
Their sons [...]

essay

This is an excerpt from a great essay. Click the link below to read the whole thing.
A photograph of me writing the figure “$128,000” on a blackboard was widely published. I deposited the net amount (a little less than that) and began to try to understand the life I’d created. Part of it was [...]

Films

I don’t make films.
But, if I did they would have a Samuria.

Cúchulainn

Now you’ll sing a song of liberty for blacks and paks and jocks
And they’ll take you from this dump youre in and stick you in a box
Then they’ll take you to cloughprior and shove you in the ground
But you’ll stick your head back out and shout we’ll have another round
At the graveside of Cúchulainn we’ll [...]

Steelers 16 v. Eagles 10

Pittsburgh looked pretty good in their first pre-season game against Philadelphia. The Eagles played without Westbrook though. These two teams meet again in week 3 of the regular season so neither team showed much of their playbooks. Santonio Holmes and Ben Roethlisberger hooked up for the Steelers touchdown on a nineteen yard [...]

X-Files

We went to the X-Files 2: I Want to Believe today.  I liked how Duchovny and Anderson were able to drop right back into their roles.  I wished Carter had spent more time with the villains of the piece. The villains needed to scare the audience more. These men were doing horrific things for shaky reasons.  I [...]

Wow!


Guest

So, we had a house guest from Tuesday to Saturday. He was a nice fellow, and we enjoyed his company, and hope he enjoyed ours. His only faux pas was attempting to drink from my glass, and we all know that only heavy weight drinking champs should attempt to drink from my glass. [...]

Movies

These are the movies I will part dollars with to see this summer.  I love and hate going to the movies. I hate that I can’t have a smoke in the theatre.  I hate the prices.  I love the big screen. My girl loves the popcorn.

Crime

Sixty-nine people witnessed a crime today and did nothing. I am drinking vodka tonics, what are you drinking?

Coen Bros.


an old favorite

‘What you want Natalie?’
‘To drink and fight!’