Author: ps pirro

• November Links

  So much keeps happening. Much of it passes without need for comment, because what is there left to say? Our laws are as broken as…

• Housekeeping

  Just a quick note today, and a couple questions for you. For the last month of 2021 I’ll be off-line and somewhat out-of-pocket, which means…

• Things Fall Apart

  Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere The ceremony of innocence…

• Just In Time

  I’m a just-in-time poem, sitting offshore in a shipping container on an uneasy ocean waiting, waiting, waiting for the crane to hoist me high and…

• Give Us Your Burned Out Millennials

  The little city down the road from the little town in which I live announced this week that it wants to add 5,000 residents to…

• Glasgow

  Journalist George Monbiot maintains that the only hope we have is to leave the oil in the ground. Leave the coal. The natural gas. If…

• I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill

  I spent time this week listening to Eva Cassidy, whose music was unknown to me until long after her death in 1996. [h/t to music…

• Obscure Sorrows

  From John Koenig’s Tumbler, and now book, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Follow the link to go to a more complete definition. Monachopsis: a subtle…

• October links

  Jon Michael Greer throws a shoe at intentional communities, and while much of what he says makes sense, it didn’t quite extinguish my desire to…

• Intermediation 2.0

  It’s not news that the health care system in the U.S. is broken. Over the course of the pandemic we’ve seen how ghastly it is…