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Good at Something – 2024

January 10, 2025 – 12:50 pm

A proficiency in billiards is the sign of a misspent youth. – attributed to Herbert Spencer, English philosopher after losing 50-0 to a pool shark. Back room at the 169 Bar 2024 I can hold my own only because I’m lucky with the eight-ball.

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The Beauty of Doing Nothing

December 10, 2024 – 10:56 am

Today from a European time zone a friend Serge Kruger, famed Paris bon vivant, mused on Facebook, “Luckily I like to do nothing.” Je suis avec lui 100%. According to Wikipedia the English borrowed ennui from French in the 1660s. Ennui came from an Old French word meaning “displeasure.” Ennui was also related to the […]

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I Love My Sleep

November 3, 2024 – 1:09 am

As much as I hate Daylight Savings Time, I was happy to sleep another hour this morning. After waking with the dawn I pulled the covers over my head for shelter from the light and arranged the pillows for renewed comfortability. The next forty-five minutes belonged to a blissful slumber. Sleep is the drug. ZZZZZZZZZZZZ. […]

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October 10

October 10, 2024 – 7:50 pm

In two days some of America will celebrate Columbus Day. Many will curse the Genoan On October 10, 1492 the great navigator was two hundred miles from land. In 1973 Vice President Agnew was deposed as Nixon’s vice president for graft. He once said, “An intellectual is a man who doesn’t know how to park […]

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The Sin of Banality

August 18, 2024 – 9:12 am

“There is nothing more awful, depressing, and depressing than banality.”— Anton Chekhov This quote was posted on Instagram by Eric Mitchell, famed B-Movie actor and self proclaimed Pittsfield slumlord. Contemporary counter “Banality is an unappreciated virtue along with hypocrisy.” – James Steele – fugitive Banality statue by the king of banality, Jeff Koons

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