The Walton Firm Memos

…we were all wearing forced grins and our best black shirts, and we had hoped then that the crowd could sort of wash us in a way (cause we’d been bathing with sand and after a point you’d rather just stink). We wished that the thousand-head mass around the fires would be both alibi and [...]

Oh man, someone just reminded me that Halloween is coming up, and I have a couple of true-life horror story’s to write about. Today I’m going to write about something I came across in a history of homeopathy penned by William Harvey King and published in 1905 (yeah, I’m real fucking busy all the time):
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New label, this time on the subject of some fantastically technological candy. The next time you’re chewing on a sweet thing with a futuristic texture and a 30-year shelf life, be sure to set a spell and think on the amount of science and engineering that went into it. Its surprising how much effort we [...]

Today I refer you to this Article in the New York Times.
and then consider a reaction:
…Yes Fred well I know thinks have been kind of bad this year and everything, with the economy and all, and, yes … Yes I was sad too when The Sharper Image went bankrupt. We all were, I mean we lost something really special [...]

I got mail from my friend Travis. It’s a copy of his new music project. I’m not too good at describing music, so let me just say it is a rock record, that is not a joke, and very interesting. Most people these days struggle to balance two of those elements, let alone all three. [...]

Here is a sampling of usenet groups that currently have only one member, in case anyone was looking for a new hobby. Im not going to riff and ramble about all this, just wanted to enjoy the ol’ slice of life:
All About Peafowl
A group for all those people out there wanting to know more [...]

Its here. go listen. This has been a tremendously fun project to work on it and all the people who contributed stories are amazing. CDs are coming in a couple of weeks.

It had been one slow meandering lap from Broadway to the lake and back. (lapping mildly against houseboats, the water appeared earlier than I expected). On the return trip I trudged through an all-dirt sub-freeway park, and vaguely by a furtive, but public dinner party. There were several places I had passed that night that, [...]