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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The latest (but not last) face lift
Notice my blog changed, again. I’ve been working in an IT environment for about twenty years and have had blogs for nearly half that time and I am still an idiot when it comes to most things computer. I’ve also been a Christian for some years and have began to…
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Victoria, Cindi, and my ongoing quest for the next uber barber
Okay, why does a balding guy get so worked up about having a great barber? It’s a valid question. I used to go to a hair stylist. You know the kind with the sinks and the line of hair products. I paid good money for someone to wash and cut…
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Guns and boba straw-worthy milkshakes
I visited Cookie’s Drive-In over the weekend. It’s a hamburger stand here in Sacramento known for its milkshakes and its unconventional hamburgers (e.g. ostrich and buffalo). The burger and fries I had were fine—up to Cookie’s high standards. They reminded me of what has become an urban legend here—that Bill Clinton…
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Is Rob a nickname for Beelzebub?
T-shirt hanging over a dumpster at my church. Welcome, Brother!
BURGER SCOOT 