Author Archives: Bob
Echoes
I was just fooling around with some guitar effects, still trying to figure out how to use the equipment I’ve owned for like, seven years or so. I stumbled on some cool echoey sound and played a simple descending progression … Continue reading
Sound-check
A snippet (a few bars of Chris Cornell’s “Cleaning my gun”) from the sound-check before the March 30th show in my office/man-cave. I hope to tour my entire house by the end of 2012. I specifically told the stuffed animals … Continue reading
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The third beer
I’m reading Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, and I’m totally digging it. For whatever reason the following passage struck me in the way it exposes the cruel tenuousness of young love: She was the third beer. Not the first one, … Continue reading
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Fly Disneyland
Twelve years ago, on a day not unlike today, I woke to the chirping of birds and the fiery glow of sunlight saturating the green of the back yard. I opened the window to the back bathroom to take in … Continue reading
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The Perfect Palace
Rolling up toward the dead end of our little street I notice that the garbage has not yet been dragged to the curb. Just as the squeaky wheel gets the grease, the most retentive anus ends up doing the most … Continue reading
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Hunting and fishing
Scintilla prompts: [1. Talk about your childhood bedroom. Did you share? Slam the door? Let someone in you shouldn't have? Where did you hide things?] Every now and again I think of that middle hallway bedroom on Taylor Court. My … Continue reading
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The company of angels
Lost in thought at the Open Eye Café. Fragments of conversation, real and imagined, fall in lockstep with the Greatest Hits of James Brown. Last night Brenda died in my dream. Again. I’m remembering this as I stare at a … Continue reading
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Halcyon days
[Scintilla prompt choices: 1. When did you realize you were a grown up? What did this mean for you? Shock to the system? Mourning of halcyon younger days? Or the embracing of the knowledge that you can do all the … Continue reading
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Covalent bonding
[Scintilla prompt choices: 1. Who are you? 2. Life is a series of firsts. Talk about one of your most important firsts. What did you learn? Was it something you incorporated into your life as a result?] Honestly, I hadn’t … Continue reading
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Lost and found
I’ve crossed and re-crossed my legs many times these last few minutes. I’m restless is what I am. I have the leg syndrome to be sure, but more than that, I have a restless soul. I am a restless soul. … Continue reading
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