Despite the wonders that are delivered by digital music today, sometimes I really miss lying on my back on a shag carpet, eyes closed, two huge stack speakers aimed at my head, listening to a quality vinyl record played over excellent analog equipment.
One day I wish to retire to a dictionary.
Sometimes I come untethered.
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Sir @ April 5, 2012 # One Comment
I have a history of ambition. Superficially, this history appears to be replete with success and the happiness that generally accompanies it. I have a lot of framed stuff from people and places, some of it signed by individuals thanking me or wishing me luck in the next whatever. Others are awards or their reminders, [...]
Sir @ March 16, 2011 # 18 Comments
This week’s installment of the IndieInk Writing Challenge was submitted by Nicollette, who asks me to recall ‘a moment you were your absolute worst to someone, but they forgave you and how it made you feel towards them and about yourself’. Difficult on a number of different levels. I clearly need to start writing about [...]
Sir @ March 10, 2011 # 11 Comments
This week’s instalment of the IndieInk Writing Challenge is a doozy. My challenge, submitted by Dara: ‘One of my favorite quotes is from Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children: “Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. [...]
Sir @ March 2, 2011 # 18 Comments
This week’s IndieInk Writing Challenge was submitted to me by this talented and eclectic dude. The challenge: ‘Think of the last time you were angry with someone and made it clear to them how you felt. Tell the story of the dispute, except tell it from the other person’s point of view.’ A challenge, indeed. [...]
Sir @ February 24, 2011 # 6 Comments
In an effort to plug myself back into the ‘write something other than the driest of scientific blah blah’ arena, I’ve decided to throw my hat into the ring with the talented folks at Indie Ink. The ring in which my hat now sits consists of a group of writers issuing challenges to one another [...]
Sir @ November 19, 2010 # 3 Comments
What do you think of religion? Or what do you think of politics? Am I ready to alienate people through the written word? HELLS YEAH, G MONEY! Religion, Politics, and their incestuous love child Criminal Justice are all sustained in large part by fear. Fear of others, of ourselves, of the unknown. Fear fear fear [...]
Sir @ August 23, 2010 # 9 Comments
A couple weeks ago, I experienced what could be considered a breakthrough in the lab. I’d found the solution to a persistent problem that had, to that point, kept me from answering larger and deeper questions. This led to the proving or disproving a few established hypotheses and scientific progress was suddenly marching gloriously forward. [...]
Sir @ May 29, 2010 # 4 Comments
There was a guy that I roomed with for awhile at VMI. The second semester of our first year we ended up in the same room together with a ‘jock’ and an evangelical as foils to our prior-service background, meaning we’d each been enlisted for awhile. That first year at VMI is both a good [...]
Sir @ April 15, 2010 # 5 Comments
The greatest golf course on which I’ve ever played involved sheep. About halfway down the western coast of Ireland lay the farthest point west that one can travel prior to falling into the ocean. The town there is called Dingle and the journey to the golf course requires driving toward the sea on rutted roads [...]
Sir @ January 25, 2010 # 5 Comments
Gather together a group of neuroscientists and ask them to describe the brain and the majority of them will likely say something sterile and scientific like, ‘It’s a ball of goo held together by magic’. Ask the same question to a philosopher or a theologian and they may answer with something along the lines of [...]