(musings from an upstart crow)
Corbid Ravenous Inarticulation has reached critical mass. I have always been so good at holding things together even when I don’t hold things together. Pathologically even tempered. Lately though I feel like I am on 24 hour permanent on call status for everyone. I have so much I am responsible for everywhere that I cannot get anything … Read more
I’ve just randomly discovered that those eerie images one sees on Downtown area folkart matchbooks and wooden ladder games does indeed have a history…You know, the images of “The Mermaid” and “El Diablo” and “El Corazon?” The official name is Loteria and it’s yet another example of wild and uncultivated mythology echoing Appalachian English Folk … Read more
I am inexplicably queasy this morning. End of summer migraine weirdness. It is a Monday in August of a year in which our cultural and societal debt is being referred to third party collections and our planet is on the verge of being repossessed by the forces of nature. It’s a scary time to be … Read more
The left card represents an important element of the past. Sun: Being illuminated by imagination and inspiration. Liberation from old patterns. Realization of your personal goals. Radiating joy, finding delight in life. A feeling of Returning to the Source. Angels on your shoulders. Things flowing smoothly. Dawning consciousness. Cutting away from the past. Feeling welcomed … Read more
Lead will never be gold it is just lead…Current mood: depressedCategory: Life I am leaden footedly sad. Irrationally, hormonally, moodily, chemically, embedded in my cells depressed. I have gradually holed myself up and lost touch with my friends and family, even more so since the fire. I never go out anymore. I am feeling alone … Read more
Seventeen years is too long a fogPlace upon the mantle your old volume with a new roseTime does not sympathize, marches in spite of youYour bones are still olderYour days are still numberedSeventeen years of thisDon’t really matterAs long as the rent gets paidAs long as the kids get fedYour half life’s your whole life … Read more
…you’re busy making other plans…(John Lennon)
As most of you well know, from recent or current experience, poverty sucks! Because once you’re down, my loves, they keep kicking you, is pretty much how it goes, or whatever. Things that suck the most: 1)The people who are most patient with you and therefore most deserving will invariably get paid last and latest … Read more
…but I didn’t find peace…and life isn’t fair… “The punk rock’ll kill you if the government don’t get you first…”-Rhett Miller of The Old 97s
“Then Cuchulain went on his way, and Cathbad that had followed him went with him. And presently they came to a ford, and there they saw a young girl thin and white-skinned and having yellow hair, washing and ever washing, and wringing out clothing that was stained crimson red, and she crying and keening all … Read more