I went to Howe Gelb’s house. It wasn’t his actual house in Tucson’s Barrio district (I know what this house looks like because my friend used to be his neighbor), but a ramshackle house that resembled a two-story version of the house that I lived in with FM Tonyballzee in Flagstaff. The goal of my v...

I was in a bullfighting ring, sitting on a bench just below the stands. I had to cross a river to get there, so my clothes were wet. I realized I had a dry change of clothes, so I put a blanket over me and started changing. A group of people sat next to me, and a woman eased her way into the blanket...

jfv wrote: Tue Jul 30, 2024 8:59 am I fucking hate guilt.

Same here. I wear it like a steel wool suit sometimes. Shame and guilt, guilt and shame. I chalk it up to coming from a family of Jews-turned-Catholics. A double dip of shame and guilt!

I’ve been laying off of my meds, mainly because of the aforementioned heat tolerance issues. As expected, I’m doing better in the heat. This will have to do until I go to the doctor and see about alternatives. It amazes me how quickly things come unglued when I quit taking my adhd med (ritalin, low-...

Next is Ask the Dust by John Fante, whom I've only just learned about. Oh man. I’m jealous you’re reading this for the first time. Really cool snapshot of LA in the 30s, with a Dostoyevskian bent. Don’t skimp on his son Dan’s books. Brutal and unromanticized portrayals of alcoholism. That dude went...

I like that this is in Crap/Not Crap. Right? Believe it or not, the literal nature of the post didn’t occur to me until after it was posted. I don’t know if we have a proper bathroom incident thread going somewhere, but I’ll use this one to drop a little nugget about FM Steve. We were recording at ...

I was at HEB and had to take a crap. I don’t know what it is about grocery stores that get my bowels moving, but it’s not uncommon for me to need to make a pit stop. There was no one in the bathroom, so I took the handicap stall. As I was doing my thing, I heard someone motor in and pull on the stal...

Chat Pile is ok. Kinda like Metz. Just ok. I’m not going to turn them off when I hear them on Pandora or whatever, but I’m not gonna buy their album, either. They’re pretty pedestrian to me, as far as noisy bands go. Hats off to their publicist.

Interesting show at the Carousel Lounge in Austin tonight. Sound Mass is a collaboration between Austin’s My Education and SLC’s Theta Naught. https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/music/sound-mass-iii-ampersand-record-release-w-theta-naught-my-education-the-gary-3174472/ This show fucking ruled! ...

Does anyone else experience a sense of dread and futility before taking a shit in the morning? Eventually I get the dirt out of my belly and suddenly everything is fine. It makes me wonder how many of history’s rash decisions were made because someone just needed to take a good poo.