Category: and so it goes

• I Miss Joe Bagaent

  He’s been gone for a couple years now, and I continue to look to him for the courage to say and do what needs to…

• Going Quiet

  I’m taking the blog into the dark for a while. I may or may not resurface. I may or may not have all new content…

• Doing the Gig or Doing the Flyers

  “Where we had the most control was at the gigs. So the idea was to get people to the gig. We had divided the whole…

• 4th of July

  Hey, baby.

• Functional Politics

  People who are struggling to make the actual world conform to some imaginary one are rarely prepared to accept the compromises, the negotiations, and the…

• Ugly Truth

  I can’t listen to that song. It makes me remember things. Lucinda Williams, “Ugly Truth”

• Permission

  It’s not uncommon for teenagers to whine that there’s nothing to do in this town. Or for college students to talk about the limits of their…

• Projects

  Kio Stark , on gaining a sense of competence and assessing your personal progress by showing others what you’ve learned and focusing on projects. She’s…

• Rain

  I’m holding on underneath this shroud.

• People Think of You Often

  There’s a line in “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace that I used to return to often. It reads, “You will become way less concerned…