“Every day baby, I bleed blue”

Poet Sim Stafford and I were in high school together, and then we both went to the same university, and one time, during my freshman year, when I was having a moment, he said, “once a Dukie, always a Dukie.” He wasn’t talking about school spirit – he was saying that my life had changed,Continue reading ““Every day baby, I bleed blue””

Monday music: dear, incredible Duke

Dear Duke – Anthem Gone to Croatan – Jah Wobble The General – Dispatch The Other Side – the Twelves Hand in Glove – the Smiths Souvenir D’iti – In-Grid Oblivion – Patrick Wolf Close to Me – the Cure Back to the Old House – the Smiths Come On, Come Out – A FineContinue reading “Monday music: dear, incredible Duke”

The Heidi Montag post that wasn’t going to happen

But did anyway. I could write about DUKE GOING TO THE FINAL, I could write about politics,  I could make vague references to the things in my life that I am really hoping will go right somehow, and I could even write about getting splashed with holy water in the pre-dawn hours of this EasternContinue reading “The Heidi Montag post that wasn’t going to happen”

Flags at half-mast in Moscow this week

Captured by shitty phone camera, but captured nonetheless. This one is over the Prosecutor General’s Office. I had quite a moment after taking this picture. I was walking with a friend and telling him a bunch of crap. “Life is so banal, I’m going to go drown myself in the Moscow River.” “But that wouldContinue reading “Flags at half-mast in Moscow this week”