Dread Poets Sobriety

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  • “Sissyphus”

    “We’re all on the same team”. Platitudinous? Yes. Cliche? Assuredly… but the phrase was used recently in marketing for the newest Planet Earth installment and the inference blew me away. How in the hell can we NOT figure this out? And I don’t mean left-wing and conservatives, racial divisions, capital disparity or religious schisms. I… Continue reading

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  • “Penn-umbra”

    Good morning, faithful revelers! Thank you for joining me on our latest foray into (hopefully) enlightened oblivion. Regular oblivion is just so banal… Right down to business today. The grounds of my Manor enjoyed a healthy snow through the night and the dog’s eyes, despite a brief constitutional earlier, have surpassed “hungry” and passed into… Continue reading

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  • International Incident

    My problem with sushi is this; I instantaneously panic when a single molecule of seaweed gently caresses the edge of my baby toe, why in the name of whoever would I place it into my mouth willingly? Opening joke aside I have a few topics to cover today of a less amusing nature. Russia? WTF?… Continue reading

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