Three hours into the race somebody has dropped. We don’t know who, we don’t know where they are, and we have no idea when they’ll be back, but someone definitely has dropped. #BM100

After a brief memorial, laz lit the cigarette at 6:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100

Say, can I have some of your purple berries?
Yes, I've been eating them
For six or seven weeks now and I haven't got sick once
Probably keep us both alive

I can see by your coat, my friend
You're from the other side
There's just one thing that I'd like to know
Can you tell me, please, who won our damn war?

If you smile at me, I will understand
'Cause that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language

60 years old today. Listen to the lyrics.

Normalize reality.

It would hardly be a new thought to say "we need to work on our critical thinking skills" but I do think it might be worth clarifying that the *point* of critical thinking skills is to be able to create your own meaning out of the things going on in the world.

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If you smile at me, I will understand
'Cause that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language
I can see by your coat, my friend, you're from the other side

I regretted donating my father’s box set of these books for years. I’m finally in the position to welcome them onto my shelves. The set is more than just collected words on pages.

This is a fun book to read now. “On Thermonuclear War” by Herman Kahn. -Good times!!!

Interested in realities. The billions of them that exist, and how they are altered and manipulated. PKD- 1978

Updated spreadsheet of “The Best American Short Stories” 1915-2024.

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Attending the Military Writers’ Symposium at Norwich University, walking back from lunch checking out some of the academic buildings. Found the little room where I regularly watched a satellite feed of Врeмя (Soviet/Russian nightly news) in the early 90s. It’s now a storage room.😂

Spent so much time…