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.
Sir @ October 27, 2011 # One Comment
I’ve written previously about my time sitting on a specific bench located on a wind-blown Scottish shoreline. I think about it frequently. I can’t do any more justice to that time than what I’ve already done, so I’ll present a paragraph here and expand a wee bit in honor of the challenge: If I had [...]
Sir @ October 20, 2011 # No Comment Yet
In the beginning, all of her contrarian arguments seemed pedestrian, at best. ‘What if there are complications’, she asked, ‘and there’s no way for us to as two separate people? How could we ever get used to doing anything apart? We’d have to learn everything all over again, like children only with half a body. [...]
Sir @ October 13, 2011 # 3 Comments
My transition to status as a ‘civilian’ in the broadest terms was more difficult than I’d expected. The military had been the only life I’d known for the previous 14 years and, prior to that, the only life I’d ever wanted to know. So, finding myself suddenly without the tethers of schedules and regulations and [...]
Sir @ October 6, 2011 # 3 Comments
But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often askew, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy! ’To a Mouse’ Robert [...]