Archive for the 'biography' Category
Public Apology
Unlike Arlen Specter or Richard Cohen, I firmly believe in apologizing when you’re wrong. Sometimes the apology can be a long time coming, and what follows is one of those instances. The story below does not portray me in a very good light, nor should it.
The other day, I bopped by my long-neglected [...]
Old Home Place
I lived here from 1973 or ‘74 to 1991. Those are Japanese maples on the front lawn: they were there when we moved in. Off to the left you can see the sunporch, an addition from before our move-in. The roof to the sunporch was tin-plated, and we’d climb out my parents’ [...]
Read More..>>Joe Sweetland Takes a Dive
Joe Sweetland was a punk rocker and former high school wrestling star who lived around the corner from me on Hall Avenue in 1989, the year I had my first apartment, the same year I banged Nicole Grand in a schoolyard, a few days after she gave Candle Randall a blowjob on her sofa while [...]
Read More..>>Snow
The lovely Christina emailed to tell me she’d seen the first snowflake of the season. I don’t think she was impressed with my less-than-ecstatic response, but when you’ve experienced 28 years of snowstorms, frozen feet, chapped lips, numb fingers, blizzards in May, ice storms, cars and trucks that won’t start in cold weather, days [...]
Read More..>>So Nice, I Posted It Twice
Call me vain, egotistical, arrogant, what you will.
I make no apologies for the fact that I look great when I am hard at rock.
Stubborn
Sam has been visiting this past week, and with Thanksgiving on top, it was a weekend of light blogging. It’s amazing how much he’s developed in the past two months, and a long two months it’s been: although I didn’t blog about it at the time, sometime in October, I had a really bad [...]
Read More..>>Dishwashing Memories
When I was 17, I worked as a dishwasher at Salve Regina College in Newport with my friends Derek and John. It was a pretty cool gig: since it was a university, the pay was better than average for dishdogs, and the shift was always over by 8:00 PM. The best part was [...]
Read More..>>36th Birthday
I hit the big 36 tomorrow.
I realize I’m a little old for birthday presents, but I still like ‘em.
Especially if those presents include an ignition coil for a 2000 Chevy Astro 6 cylinder, AWD. Or spark plugs and cables for the same.
Just sayin’…
It’s Always Something
Honestly, what the fuck is it with me and computers? Everytime I have to deal with signing up for something, fixing something, customer service, what-have-you, inevitably something stupid happens that makes the whole process take twice as long as it needs to. And frankly, I would say more than 70% percent of the [...]
Read More..>>Someone Made a Movie About My Life
Tim Kelly sent me the trailer for “American Hardcore”.
Someone made a movie about my teenaged years. I cannot WAIT to see this flick.
“Normal people did NOT listen to hardcore, and we liked it that way.”
“If you’re looking for radicalism in the 1980s, you should look at hardcore.”
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