Eagles game. Fantastic. Never imagined when I gave myself Monday to return to Chicago I also gave myself a playoff game. Jim Johnson’s blitzes will feast on Tavaris Jackson. Please, Bearded Andy, run the football, no matter what. 0.2 yard average per run? Keep doing it.
I finally got a coat. I’m happy with it. It [...]
January 4, 2009
Categories: Writing . Tags: BCS, Herman Melville, High School Teaching, Maria, Pete Carroll, Philadelphia Eagles, Screen Passes, The Confidence-Man, Wawa, Winter Coat . Author: kingremi . Comments: 1 Comment
I’ve been stumped about blogs for a long time. I’m still really uncertain of them. Before they were called blogs, when they were called Diaryland, a totally sissier if not truer title, I wrote a lot of stories. People were in them. Sometimes we talked about them. Sometimes I really made people angry. I wonder [...]
December 31, 2008
Categories: Writing . Tags: blogs, Diaryland, Home, Jack Kerouac, James Joyce, Jazz, John Dewey, Montaigne, Neil Young, New York City, Walter . Author: kingremi . Comments: Leave a Comment
Here it is, finally; a hotel room in Cape May. I swore this would never happen, I swore that the man who signed that bill would’ve signed an earlier dotted line to the devil, but even I can’t deny that it just makes sense to be here. Almost the whole family is here, it’s [...]
December 26, 2008
Categories: Writing . Tags: Christmas, hotels, Stream of Conscious . Author: kingremi . Comments: Leave a Comment
My friends are always cooking up crazy schemes, but this latest might be the craziest. This was my first attempt at contributing to the scheme, but it wasn’t what the scheme desired. Thankfully, blogs exist for all the editor-rejected thoughts of the world. Here are some of those.
Tractor Thoughts for December 12, 2008
I moved [...]
December 12, 2008
Categories: Columns, Writing . Tags: Chicago, Farms, Middle America, Midwest, Rejected Thoughts . Author: kingremi . Comments: 1 Comment