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The only reason I really look forward to my birthday is that I get time off from work and that I usually rent an Airbnb out in the middle of the desert in the Joshua Tree vicinity with a pool, hot tub, and no one around for 5 acres. So here I am in Landers [ ]
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Occasionally, after reading certain books, when his disgust for daily life became particularly marked, he longed for the lenitive hours immersed in a cloister There is just a clause in the above sentence in the first chapter for J.-K. Huysman s The Damned (Là-Bas) that really stuck out to me: when his disgust for daily life [ ]
Surprisingly I have been watching the Dodgers during the NLCS against the Brewers. I haven t been watching much baseball over the last few years, and since Dodger co-owner Todd Boehly bought my football team, Chelsea FC, and have since screwed them up beyond all recognition they went from winning the Champions League in 2021 [ ]
A show in an upstairs bar on a Wednesday night at my age? I knew I was flirting with disaster when I bought the ticket last month, but I really did want to see Leaether Strip and Rhys Fulber. Also, I had bought Ratio Strain s album earlier in the summer and made it a part [ ]
It s been a long time since I went to two different shows on two consecutive nights that was not a part of a festival. Back in 2001 after the All Tomorrow s Parties fest was postponed because of 9-11, a bunch of bands scheduled alternate venues at the last minute because they were going to be [ ]
I ve always been ambivalent at best about Independence Day here in the U.S. I m fortunate to have been born here, and I suppose it s better than being born in North Korea or Soviet Russia. I ve been told all my life that the U.S. is the best country in the world, however, I never understood how [ ]
Well, maybe it s not fair to generalize. But I finished reading Michel Houellebecq s collection of articles Interventions 2020, and it proved that there are some things that me and a crusty right-wing contrarian agree with. The purpose of the party is to make us forget that we are lonely, miserable and doomed to death. What [ ]
I want to be left alone. I travel alone. I live alone (except for my cats.) As I get older, the more I don’t want to be around people. I live in the middle of Downtown LA, yet I make it my mission never to be in contact with anyone. I usually don’t give a [ ]
Thanks to radar and radio issues at Newark Airport recently, my flight home on Friday was cancelled. I did reschedule it for early the next day, but that meant I had to spend an extra day in Newark. This was a trip where I went to the Dark Force Fest in Parsippany, NJ, then went [ ]