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A petty rant on how Tom Petty handled his bass player's heroin problem.

My former drug dealer has died

ALL FOR ONE, ONE FOR ALL...

Life Won't Wait

War & Peace

Should it hurt to make art? Or should it be a total blast? Where does the line get drawn, and who draws it?

Let's Read A Few Fuckin Poems Vol #1

TO HAVE & HAVE NOT #3: THE TITANIC

Love and Marriage & Stairs That Go Nowhere

36 DAYS TIL I'M HOMELESS BCUZ LANDLORDS ARE AN OPPRESSIVE CLASS OF MORONS, IDIOTS & FUCKHEADS

Does ANYBODY remember the song "Drown" by Vibrolux, a "band" led by a studio rat named Steve Clark?

The startle effect

The Lonesome Death of Teresa Michelle Gratton

American Spaces & Places

What'd I miss? Back @ work for first time since March 16 2020. And what the fuck am I missing?

News

Life is a lollipop you cannot lick. (Omar is dead. Long live Omar.)

A quick anecdote about my Dad being Clint Eastwood.

The Cats of my life. And my wife.

I Am With You Part II: A 7 Part Series on American poetry & writing & the shape of America's poetry & punk to come

My former heroin dealer stops me on the street, asks me how I'm doing, buys me clothing & a frosty from Wendy's. 45 mins later a random woman asks me out...these events MUST be connected, right?

Blue Rodeo "Me & Baz"

I Am With You Part I: A 7 Part Series on American poetry & writing & the shape of America's poetry & punk to come

Let's Play What If (Breaking Bad Edition): What if Victor & Tyrus were the ones who abducted you & exiled you from Ontario. Also, let's take Springsteen to task.

If you got kicked out of Ontario FOREVER, would it bother you? Would you try to sneak back in?

Turning down, or mixing your women vocalists is a shitty and kinda sexist thing to do. What are you afraid of?

Old Drug Diary Entries #3 (October 13 2019).

Old Drug Diary Entries (Oct 19-21 2019)

Addiction takes many forms

HEATSEEKER

18 or 19 THOUGHTS

RR #8: Heat (1995) Dir. Michael Mann.

GIVE US THIS DAY...

These Days Between Stations

A Tale of Two Cities

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS

STRANGE DAYS

Some Thoughts on Greatness

Random Review #7: Stoner (1965) by John Williams. Also Willa Cather, the school of resentment, Harold Bloom, Ernest Hemingway, and A Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

And Meeks Shall Inherit The Earth

RANDOM REVIEW #6: VAPORWAVE (200?)

Private Ear Sample Investigations™️ #1

RANDOM REVIEW #5: SYNTHWAVE (200?)

RANDOM REVIEW #4: CHILLWAVE (2009)

Daily [sic] dispatches from the front lines of the fuckin fentanyl crisis and other bits of pop culture detritus.