December 2011
36 posts
it was a drunken, bloodied and bruised trip around the sun. i got the piss knocked out of me a few too many times for my own good. it leaves a man bitter and full of cynicism. for the first time i can remember i’ve been doing more fighting than i have reconciling. but hey, it’s always darkest before the dawn, right?
here’s to surviving and not fucking up the next trip around...
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we might as well just bring knives to parties. dysfunctional as shit.
“Get back on your high horse and fuck her senseless.”
– P. Beard
expired aleve will fuck your shit up.
I'm joining a sailing crew
cause fuck it I’m drunk and I crave the adventure. i need something new
Real Estate Review
I have to believe that when my mother was pregnant with me, she ate a Walkman. Music has been the driving passion of my life since I was a tiny kid.
At age seven, when most kids were still sucking their thumb watching Mulan, my grandfather and I were listening to “Wish You Were Here” by Pink Floyd. As I grew up, I tried to expand my musical horizons with Applachian folk, Dixieland swing, and...
Joe Hertler Review
When Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, he was slaughtered. The minimalists hated it. An angry fan in London called him “Judas.” People thought the new, plugged-in take on the acoustic music that brought him his initial acclaim would be his ultimate downfall.
Funny how that turned out.
Up-and-coming Michigan native Joe Hertler has pulled off the fabled “Dylan”...
“There’s no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that...”
– Cormac McCarthy
four hours, the acorn, a pot of caffeine, and a...
come at me, calc. come at me
the devil inside wants his chains loosened
edit: and after last night’s binge, he got his wish.
GOOD OL' ROCKY TOP
scholarship essay
For better or worse, football has been my driving force. It’s consuming, addicting, enthralling; it holds its own as one of the greatest American inventions with the light bulb and jazz. Football causes tears of ecstatic joy and simultaneously crippling sadness. It rallies people together as well as draws enemy lines through city blocks and state borders. Most days of the week, somewhere you can...