http://realfake.org/blog Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:19:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On 9/11 we were 4 days away from our wedding. Late morning when we were on the phone with my family, my grandmother asked "well, are you still having the wedding?" And Terri and I both looked at each other like, what kind of question is that— of course we're ... http://realfake.org/blog/2011/09/how-to-stop-terrorism-one-person-at-a-time/ http://realfake.org/blog/2011/09/everything-is-possible-and-nothing-is-real/ Back in 2005/2006 I used to check my RSS reader to see if I had written anything on my blog. I was always sad if I hadn't and excited if I had. Then I would read it in my RSS reader. Then I would click through and re-read it on ... http://realfake.org/blog/2011/07/true-tales-of-the-mid-aughts/ [part 1 was here] This phrase still pops into my mind uninvited all the time. It's not that you were a better person. It's not that you're a bad person now that you're comfortable-to-well-off. It's not that the person you were then didn't show a hint of the person you became, would ... http://realfake.org/blog/2011/07/in-the-days-when-you-were-hopelessly-poor-i-just-liked-you-more-part-2/ I had a dream that I was walking around my parent's farm in the middle of the night and wandered down to Boyd's Hollow Road, where my brother and I used to catch the school bus in the mornings. It was November, so all the leaves were off the trees ... http://realfake.org/blog/2011/05/dream-of-the-hollow/ It's like "Riptide" but instead of a houseboat, two dudes live on a tour bus and fight crime. It's a re-boot of "Raging Bull", except Jake LaMotta isn't a wife-beating boxer, he's a family man union electrician. A climactic scene shows him at the computer, attempting to referee an unexpectedly heated ... http://realfake.org/blog/2011/04/some-pitches/ Howlin' Smurf did actual time. Howlin' Smurf knows what it's like to count the days until you get out. The other Smurfs didn't understand Howlin' Smurf's pain. Right when he got out and came home, it was the worst. It hurt at first, how the other Smurfs were overly polite and seemed ... http://realfake.org/blog/2011/02/howlin-smurf/ So, Christmas has been encroaching on Thanksgiving (and has had its eyes on Halloween) for decades, but apparently it has now metastasized to the point where Wal-Mart and K-Mart are actually open on Thanksgiving Day. Look, I love Christmas as much as the next guy, maybe more. But it's only ... http://realfake.org/blog/2010/11/take-back-thanksgiving/ At about 5:45pm today, I almost cranked up the ol' Wordpress and almost posted something titled "An Open Question To The Universe" the content of which was "How has my life become a series of such situations as 'if I don't figure out a way to get a 4'x8' sheet ... http://realfake.org/blog/2010/11/an-answer/ Digging through my drafts folder, I found this post, pretty much complete, from a year ago, about what a momentous week that was. Indeed it was! Terri and I were just commenting on how this was such a momentous week. And then it gets more momentous! Saturday. (Oct. 31). Terri’s parents drove ... http://realfake.org/blog/2010/11/the-week-that-was-one-year-ago/