Smells like a hayloft
I live in Texas. It’s always hot in the summer. It’s always hot and dry. This year it’s been ridiculous. The other day I walked out into my front yard to circle around and take my car to work. A smell...
View ArticleA change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
“Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary I have a bit of a bike ride planned for later on this afternoon, but as I drove to...
View ArticleCloud Explodes
“What wouldn’t I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas After riding around the city I sat on the...
View ArticleThe Sky Explodes
“A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.” —-Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow I had signed up (paid ahead of time online) for a bike ride at...
View ArticleThat Time of Year Again
Trinity River in the Fall, December, three years agoDallas, Texas “But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it...
View ArticleMonkeys Minding Machines
“For God’s sake, let us be mennot monkeys minding machinesor sitting with our tails curledwhile the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone.Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.”― D.H....
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