For awhile now, I’ve been following the case of Charles Burton, an Alabama man who participated in a robbery-gone-bad decades ago. His accomplice shot a man dead, but Burton wasn’t involved in the murder. Yet Alabama has a doctrine called ‘felony murder’ which in essence means that even if you did not do the deed […]
Category: Personal (Bullshit)
Conscious Cruelty
I saw in the news today that Jonathan Joss was killed in a dispute with a neighbor. I didn’t recognize his name, but his face I instantly knew was Ken Hotate’s—and once I realized that I knew he was also John Redcorn. Two characters I loved in their shows, but that’s not really relevant to […]
13 Years of Emma
I just closed on the purchase of a vehicle today, replacing my prior (and first) 1997 Ford Thunderbird. I’ve cropped out her trunk because the photo’s actually from when she was rear ended by an old lady checking her phone, and I don’t need to show her off in a wounded state. I forget why […]
Return to Newshour
I’ve basically been on a news junkie bender for the past…since the June 27th debate last year. Holy fuck man I actually think I have more grey in my beard since a year ago. As an aside, I hate that my beard’s what’s first getting grey. If it was my hair? Sure, that looks cool. […]
In the Year 2025
As it turns out, a lot of my natural impetus to write in my blog was fueled by unemployment. Or rather, the existential dread of living in a currency-based society without means to acquire said currency. Things have been more or less good, that mythical state of being where life passes without much notice, and […]
Persistence
Or, as it feels to me right now, the art of defined insanity. Referring, of course, to that oft-misattributed definition of the term as repeating the same thing and expecting different results. I’ve been on the job hunt for over a year now, doing what I can to scrape by (I’ve gotten very good at […]
A Night to Remember
This is probably going to be the most self-indulgent post I’ll write here—and if you’ve done yourself the misfortune of reading all that I’ve written, all I can say is you have my appreciation, and my sympathies. Please at least read things better than the drivel I put out in this blog. With that said, […]
AI Hypocrisy
I love new technology. I’m too poor to engage with most of it until it’s old news and then some, but I still love reading about it. What fascinates me most is technology that interfaces with us directly—prosthetic limbs, mind-brain interlinks, and us interfacing with virtual worlds (whether it be directly with VR headsets, or […]
Holiday Thankfulness
It’s the most wonderful time of year, as told to us by innumerable songs, movies and decorations celebrating the season. Whether you deck the halls with boughs of holly, candelit menorahs, vibrant kinara, or other signs of your chosen holiday, it’s all an acknowledgment that this time of year is something special. Even if you […]
Parents, Past and Future
The other day, I was looking at a frame my mother recently put up in her house. It was around two dozen images of relatives, but primarily her parents and aunts. The pictures were high quality, film-based; from when I was just a child, or even before I was born. There was a picture of […]
