Archive for August, 2009

Safety

Thinking peripherally about the post and comment below, specifically about the “energy left by violence”:
A kid got shot last weekend, a couple of blocks from my house. On the same weekend, there was a stabbing at one of my old haunts. In the last couple of years, we had an attempted break-in and [...]

Suicide

Earlier this month, I had a garage sale and got to meet some of the elderly neighbors from down the street, people who have lived here for a thousand years and can tell you the history of every house and every family that lived in it. One of the gentlemen I met, a retired [...]

Goddamned Students Are Back

Every year they’re gone just long enough to get used to the quiet. And then they have to come back and ruin it.
Get offa my lawn.
UPDATE: Goddamned kids.

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