Monthly Archives: May 2026

_The Outsider_ by Stephen King: Quick Review

The Outsider was released in 2018, but given COVID, writer’s strikes, Trump freakiness, and all that, like the rest of current culture, it’s sort of delayed — I picked it up in 2023, for instance (still a delayed review). Wish … Continue reading

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Is Kip Lange Going to Have to Choke a Bitch?

Bear with me here, because I woke up on too little sleep after a weird night, thought, “God, just let me get back to sleep,” and popped a triple dose of my Clonazepam (ahh, wonderful benzodiapenes…my Valium, my Valium, my … Continue reading

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A Great ’70s Song About California — “All the Gold in California” by The Gatlin Brothers

This song does a pretty good job of summing up the California experience, to this day.

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Existential Questions

This will only make sense to a few of you, but I’ve been asking myself lately, would I be happier if I was the kind of guy who employed cliff divers? And the answer is no. Wherever you go, there … Continue reading

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