BURGER SCOOT

  • The color purple and other femmy things

    via Daily Prompt: Purple Recently, I received a cushion from one of my female yoga teachers. A purple cushion. Let it be known, with my red, pink, salmon, and other bright-colored oxford shirtsleeves, I am pretty secure in my sexuality. Still, the color of this cushion is emblematic of American yogic culture–overwhelmingly feminine. But hey,… Read more

  • The Daily Post and writer’s block

    Is it the words The Daily Post is generating or am I having a case of writer’s block?  Just when I relaunched this blog I find myself without much to say. True, I usually wax on about myself like I was the most interesting person in the blogosphere but, my new leaf of writing about… Read more

  • Me and minimalism: then and now

    via Daily Prompt: Minimal Minimal Music In 1983 I was introduced through a record review by Robert Christgau’s in The Village Voice to the music of Philip Glass. It was at this time–the height of my very short but frenzied record-collecting phase of my life. My first album of by Glass was The Photographer followed… Read more

  • Labeling

    via Daily Prompt: Label I’m a Democratic Socialist I’m a scooterist I’m a Christian My two sons–especially my oldest–doesn’t like labels. Wise men. Labels come with assumptions; labels, over-simplify what they are describing. And if a label is placed on a human being that is really problematic considering how complex we are with our own… Read more

  • Battle Royale

    via Daily Prompt: Conquer I’ve been practicing yoga for more than three years. It started as an Rx by a physical therapist who said there’s no cure for my degenerative disk disease, but keeping limber will keep me off ibuprofen and the occasional opioid. She was right–barring the stiffness from binge-watching streaming TV shows, I’m pretty… Read more

  • Staying out of the path of the tornado

    via Daily Prompt: Luck “Luck: a force that brings good fortune or adversity.” – Merriam-Webster “May The Force be with you.” – various Jedi knights I like the idea of luck being a force–like it has power and that it even can move. Like Andy Dufresne says in Shawshank Redemption: “Bad luck, I guess. It floats… Read more