Don't worry, I'm not drinking the Kool-Aid. And I certainly know lip service when I see it (those who claim not to are fellow practitioners!). But I did get/…

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Most people when they try this have blood sweating down their forehead. She's staring around the room. Awesome!

Here's the original Van Halen version:

How is it the insane move among us so easily? How are they not spotted and removed for help? Is it because we're all insane? The abusers slither in the day using everyday words and phrases twisted to their own ends; deceiving, always deceiving, serving the holy/…

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I pity the children of the CGI generation. They will never know true fear in film. Never has a moment so chilling and horrifying been replicated as watching the witch's soldiers marching into the heart of darkness in the Wizard Of Oz. It put me in/…

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How easy it is to forget what we know! Six guys, one house and no owner present. It's like a mirror to the sun, a lord of the flies, this feeling of carelessness when it's somebody else's shit./…

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Thank God for iPhones! This priceless rant from a Duncanville (southern Dallas suburb) student was captured as he finally got fed up with his underperforming teacher. It's since gone viral and been the talk of the town. The student, Jeff Bliss, has become a bit of a local celebrity. The school… Read full post »

Here's the third and final installment of my heron trilogy. I named it this because everywhere I went I saw a heron. Finally, I figured out there were two herons there, something I had not come across before. With precious little peace in my own life it seemed almost imperative I… Read full post »

"What you doin' with that gun?"

"Going to shoot my girlfriend."

"What for??"

"Because I'm going out of my mind!"

"I thought you said she's the best thing since, like, ever."

"She is - but I'm a total fraud. I can't stand it. I have/…

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It was another magical day at the Fort Worth Japanese Gardens. I figured I better get my time in before the weather gets too hot to even step outdoors. The serenity was overwhelming. Stepping out of the real world, living the dream before having to "cross the first bridge to Osaka… Read full post »

It was another magical day at the Fort Worth Japanese Gardens. I figured I better get my time in before the weather gets too hot to even step outdoors. The serenity was overwhelming. Stepping out of the real world, living the dream before having to "cross the first bridge to Osaka… Read full post »

It's been a full week since I saw Disconnect. It's taken me that much time to recover. Been a long, long time since a film has hit me this hard. This is not a film for liars or those who like to be lied to. It will/…

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"Thinking of you, GW" 

[Ac·count·a·bil·i·ty] n. Accountability is a concept in ethics with several meanings. It is often used synonymously with such concepts as responsibility,answerability, enforcement, blameworthiness, liability and other terms associ/… Read full post »

Linoleum. God, I hate linoleum. Makes me want to rebel right away. For some reason I wouldn't feel so hostile with a wood floor. A nice parquet would do. But this is just shit. But I know I can't say anything. Just be used against me. These people think they… Read full post »

Kaufman county, southeast of Dallas, is "God and guns" country without a doubt. Rural hardcore conservative "values" dominate the area like most (all?) of rural Texas. And when those values come into conflict we found out just how brittle they can be. Some people may call what happened an ano/…

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I must admit had me or mine died or suffered grievous injury from an apparently careless storage of a high explosive I'm not so sure I could/…

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A criminal's fate I do suffer. Can't live with others they leave you to die. How can I blame them?

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The third planet in this system is populated but embryonic. Like me, they cannot be let in the door without the destruction of everyone./…

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Two incidents, days apart, both causing harm and devastation. How are they different and how are they alike? And what do our reactions to them say about us? Inquiring minds want to know!

Not that anybody's inquiring...

Anyway, here's the breakdown:

Boston
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1. Hate yourself. All terrorism starts from here: self-hatred. That is your power. It's what gives you an edge over weak, stupid people who value life and want to live. You must somehow believe the desire for death is greater than the desire for life. You've got to be able/
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the killer awoke before dawn

he put his boots on

and then he WALKED ON DOWN THE HALL...

I remember the huge roaring cheer as the pronouncement was made and I was defeated, despised and alone again, naturally. They carried the justified hero off on their shoulders. Billions around the world had awaited in high anticipation of the verdict, gatherin/…

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It's been a while since I've been in the neighborhood of Tyler, Texas but when I am I try to visit the Tiger Creek Wildlife Refuge, home of the big cats! Having the smaller version in my own house just makes me even more of a fan of the/…

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Over and over I kept rolling that thought though my bruised head.

The donated divan I lie upon was like us: neglected, abused and unwanted. The ripped leather had assumed the properties of dry plastic,/…

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Wandering through the deep forest that is life is its own sort of blindness. Do I go left, right, forwards, backwards - or hell, which way even is forward?? I'd had enough of the wandering, of homes lost and homes destroyed, of homes vanishing like a mirage in the/…

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