I keep thinking of the scene in “As Good As It Gets” when Jack Nicholson’s character gets a bit tearful after returning Greg Kinnear’s dog. He exclaims with a grim chuckle:
“Over a dog! Over an ugly dog!”
I know how Melvin Udell felt. My dog wasn’t ugly, but he was damn stupid. He has been gone [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Steve Earle’
Most Novembers I break down and cry
Version six-point-oh of the American way
I wrote this on Monday, the day after the crime that evoked it. The post has sat in my drafts nagging at me since. I still don’t know if I want to post it but it is a few days later and I’m still angry, so what the hell. I asked Dr. O’C to read [...]
You’re a bum, you’re a punk. You’re an old slut on junk.
I’m sorry to report that their is no movement on the Christmas spirit front. Not even after having a Christmas tree thrust upon me, a spell of Christmas shopping and a Christmas party on the weekend. Though, sitting in the warm late Spring sun at a barbecue doesn’t really summon up the Noel for me. [...]
Irish Farmhouse Cheddar
“Well, I took a stroll on the old long walk
Of a day -I-ay-I-ay
I met a little girl and we stopped to talk
Of a fine soft day -I-ay-I-ay…”
-Steve Earle – “The Galway Girl”
I should cut Steve Earle some slack. Yes, his last couple of albums have pretty much sucked. But without Steve Earle, it’s possible I [...]
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