In Twlight of the Idols, Nietzsche wrote: 'Women are considered profound. Why? Because one never fathoms their depths. Women aren't even shallow'. I read this in college and rejected it out of hand. Because I didn't understand it. It's not a rebuke.
If I'd had listened carefully enough in the Tenderloin, to Liliane the bartendress at the 'No Name' bar, otherwise known as the Geary Club, I'd have been better off. She would always insist on this song, which isn't my favorite, but whatevers.
So, I always thought Johnny Cash wrote that song. But no. He just covered it very well. It was Kris Kristofferson. I guess it's supposed to be a lament. It just seems like some real shit that describes reality. Oh, well. So some reflections that are meant to
These photos are chronological for the last few days of that interminable trip. Mostly Athens, Ohio and a few snaps from Pennsylvania.
I Just a few reflections on why I haven't visited that country in almost 30 years. I'm possibly only going back because I'm so bitterly disappointed in this one. I can't believe how terrible this economic-poltical system has become. You can&
Some photos from where Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia meet.
The only thing worth writing about this was a realization most people have periodically. And then promptly forget. At least I do. The first time it happened was on the White Mountain just west of Death Valley. It was dusk and I could see the Agaziz or Palisade glacier up
So just running through the rest of this stuff with photographs and limited yapping. New Harmony was a little disappointing in that embourgoisement has its hooks into the place. A Disneyfied locale for celebrities to get their R & R. Willie Nelson and John Schneider (Dukes of Hazzard hearthrob turned
A day sticking by the river somewhat, mostly on the Kentucky side – constantly crossing that river. A little more tourism, less commerce, and a day to kind of recover and reflect from the intensity of the previous evening. But it's always onto the next thing, which is probably
The next town up river from Cairo is Mound City. It features a nearby military cemetery and is itself an impressive town. Utterly ruined, I mean in approxmately the same proportion as Cairo itself. Just astonishing that these places have been left to rot. But that is the true American
I I'll tell some stories from my siloed San Francisco life. None of the people on this list know any of these people with the last being a possible exception. People don't remember all that much, in my experience. Worlds mostly didn't collide there,
These are some funny things from the internet. Shane Gillis is a mixed bag, but he is a Pennsylvanian... Tim Heidecker is my favorite guy. Another Pennsylvanian. Chrimbus Special, JFC. And some long form fun. The most ambitious long form piece of comedy ever.