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Fighting over the letter “W.” What’s next?
While I no longer follow Brodie Brazil since he no longer calls Athletics games since they left Oakland, and I no longer follow the A’s since they exited the Bay Area, I found this piece in my YouTube queue the other day that Brazil does a great job of exposing how petty professional sports can… Read more
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Hearts & Minds: Then and Now–a Repost
This 2017 post was from one of my favorite bloggers, Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist. It is now unavailable. I rediscovered it through WordPress’ Throwback Edition. Reviewing it depressed me, so I thought I would share the love. When I think about Peter Davis’ film, it is not too hard to replace North Vietnam with… Read more
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Walking Into Closed Cafés: A Six-Sentence Story
Jonathan wished he had an internal clock that would tell him to stop before he did it, but he didn’t come with that feature in utero; when he was older, he never saw an aftermarket feature he could buy and have a surgeon implant one. How often he walked into a coffee shop or restaurant,… Read more
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My blog isn’t very popular these days
Q: How do you write what people actually want to read? View all responses A: Well, for starters, don’t write stuff like my last post! Read more
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The Pink Beach Cruiser
Michael was about halfway through his Sunday run on the Sacramento River bike trail when he saw a woman in distress on a pink beach cruiser ahead of him. A flock of wild turkeys was blocking the trail, and one—most likely a male—was attacking her or her bike. She tried in vain to kick the… Read more
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“There’s a Rooster in the Henhouse”: A Six-Sentence Story
A couple of weeks ago, my favorite fellow yoga student asked the class if they would like to join a reading group with some other yoga students. I have a hard time saying no to her; she is the most intriguing female of a group I mentioned in a previous post. So a few weeks… Read more
