April 2007

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• General

  Spring

  04.22.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  The view off our front porch: I call them azaleas.  If they’re not, well this picture was carefully taken so as not to betray the amount of yardwork I need to do out front.  “Yardwork” being a synonym for “senseless butchery” as I apply it.

• General

  Smile, and be a villain

  04.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I was in a lousy mood most of Monday.  Just felt like shouting at everyone, and was gripped further by a sense of anxiety and grief, and something deeper inside me.  Like a mold of despond on my bones. Anyway, the next day I was having a phone conversation with a colleague and I said enthusiastically […]

• General, Walks with the dogs

  Junkyard Dogs

  04.18.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  There is a scrap metal buyer who has opened up shop recently about a ten minute walk from our house.  When I take the dogs past it the parking lot is usually full of crappy old cars overloaded with ancient appliances and tangles of scrap and wire.  The prospective sellers tend to overflow onto the […]

• General, Walks with the dogs

  Bad Parents

  04.15.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  We come across this obscure store on our walks sometimes: What the fuck, parents?  Who names their son “Adolf”? Apparently this Adolf is not bothered by his parents’ choice.  He may even have embraced it; the “Adolf’s Office” is somehow endearing, if also creepy.

• Music

  Music to travel by

  04.02.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  According to iTunes, I have 10 hours, 3 minutes, and 29 seconds of Napalm Death songs in my collection.  I could fly from here to London and listen to Napalm Death the whole time.  And there’s a similar amount of Napalm Death albums I don’t yet have, so if I complete the collection, there’s my […]

G.E. Dempsey