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November Scaries in anticlimatic
I can’t shake the creeps. They come in a variety of forms; a handful of concepts. Memories seem further away than they aught to be. Or maybe they just felt closer than they should have up until...
And Don't Time Change Those Inclined in anticlimatic
…to think less of what is written, than what’s wrote between the lines. I find myself in the most ethereal place, mentally. A touch of psychosis. Slippage. Like I’m floating above a city I coul...
The Midnight Sun in anticlimatic
On the list of genuinely terrifying episodes of The Twilight Zone, number 1 for me is The Midnight Sun. The basic premise is that earth has been knocked slightly off of it’s orbit to the sun, ...
Some Friendly Advice in anticlimatic
Assume everyone likes you, but don’t count on it. Never try to leverage someone’s feelings for you into doing or giving you things. If you need something from someone that you don’t have, offe...
Mermaid Avenue in anticlimatic
Up until a few days ago I was using Youtube on my phone (not even the App, the website via Safari) for all of my music and podcast needs. Like a fucking animal. Fortunately, I discovered Spo...
What am I going to do when I run out of old men? in anticlimatic
I know I say this like once a week, but I just can’t with my own generation. Millennials, to me, are a people largely broken- mentally, spiritually, emotionally- yet they have great taste in t...
Do ghosts haunt the highway, or does the highway haunt me? in anticlimatic
It was deliciously warm last night so I took advantage. Set out around 9:00pm and pedaled my bicycle through the long series of parking lots behind the storefronts on the west side of town. Be...
On Criticizing Others in anticlimatic
I’ve always been on the apathetic side. Survival of the fittest and the natural order always suited me just fine. Because I was always young, and strong, and didn’t care about anything or anyone...
Church Beach, Goodhart MI in anticlimatic
Saw a video online using this song. Someone getting off of a subway and filming the steps and sidewalk in front of them, then suddenly glancing up surprisingly (to me) at the Cologne cathedr...
On Driving in anticlimatic
I drive more than the average person, I’d say. Mostly for work. Commuting from the town I live, around the bay to the town I work, every day. Driving from one job to the next. Sometimes six in a...
I'm sorry, Teddy Ruxpin. in anticlimatic
When I was a kid, at night, I’d pretend my bed was a pod of protection floating through space and I’d draw all of my stuffed animals near and imagine a type of eternity where we, my stuffed anim...
The Blind Spot That Crashes The Plane in anticlimatic
Anyone who finds themselves shouldered with the responsibility of seeing anything through to completion will back me up on this I think. A specific fear, or humility, born of experience. That th...
I know where I'd like to be... in anticlimatic
Christmas Is Mother's Day in anticlimatic
I’ve ranted and raved about this album cover before. Maybe it’s just my mommy issues, but there is something about it that does it for me. The baby, the way she’s looking at him, the hair up...
Life is too short not to stare at people in anticlimatic
My girlfriend, who is very demure, very mindful in public (read: neurotic)- constantly yells at me for staring at people. People in the grocery store. People in their yards when we’re walking do...
Time Was Like Water, But I Was The Sea in anticlimatic
The amount of time I spent as a kid baking on sidewalk stoops and curbs- stranded by childhood limitations, boredom, and peer pressure- was truly Lovecraftian in it’s scope (as well as madness i...
Lady In Black in anticlimatic
She came to me one morning, one lonely Sunday morning, her long hair flowing in the midwinter wind. I know not how she found me, for in darkness I was walking, and destruction lay around me...
Babymaking Music in anticlimatic
What’s a song off of your “seduce and destroy” playlist?
Dad Season in anticlimatic
mom and dad, 1970s Someone happened to give me a photo they had of my dad and me, in passing once on a job site I think, and I’ve kept it clipped to the visor of my truck ever since. It’s a ph...
The Pleasure Of Limited Focus in anticlimatic
I just saw the last full size K-Mart in the US closed recently. I assumed that happened a long time ago. All of the K-Marts within 1000 miles of here shuttered five years ago or more. I can’t q...
The McManus Dam in anticlimatic
The only thing left of this bad boy is some odd concrete rectangles in the grass, just off the bike path between it and the thin strip of forest growing along the riverbank. It was the first d...
For Those Who Aren't Bigots in anticlimatic
A friendly reminder- Someone who disagrees with you politically is not necessarily a “bad” person, nor a “misinformed” person. They may simply have a slightly different order of priorities, a s...
Ailing Beauty in anticlimatic
I am obsessed with this group. I think it’s just a college choir, but it’s the only one like this that I know of. We get on average one “music video” a year, and although I’ve seen albums a...
In Defense Of Small Talk in anticlimatic
Look, I probably hate it more than you do. As an introvert, I don’t much care for chatting with strangers- and as an eccentric artist type, I don’t much care to mill about in dull predictable ch...
Thanks, River in anticlimatic
boy posing with his dog, 1882 The river that used to power my town sneaks along on the other side of the street from my house. It runs from Walloon lake, which is a small inland lake, through...
