Mixed Moss

Lately, two of my friends have posted on their blogs about the illegal immigration issues currently before Congress: Eric and Octavio. I’ve given this matter a lot of thought lately. After all, it’s the only thing the news has been talking about, especially on NPR; and I’ve made more than my fair share of mission […]

low roads
high roads
sunny roads
rainy roads
roads through the woods
roads along the sea
byways
highways
parkways
freeways
tollways
dirt roads
gravel roads
winding roads
roads in Kansas—as straight and flat as everything else in Kansas
roads bordered by texas blue bonnets and cacti
roads bordered by pine trees
roads with a stone wall running alongside
roads with white rail fences over rolling green hills in Kentucky
roads with covered bridges
back roads
main […]

This has been a crazy day. Last night, I got news that there had been a third shooting in Over-the-Rhine within three days, and with a pattern: all had been shot by the same man (5′9″, african american, close-cropped beard, wearing all black; which describes 98% of the men in OTR). All were young, white, from the suburbs, […]

Ladies and Gentlemen, after almost two years with blogspot, my blog is moving.
For the past few months I have been serving as a beta-user for a new kind of blog: Voxtropolis, the City of Voices. Voxtropolis is an entirely new concept whereby there will be an online community mirroring a number of face-to-face communities around […]

I have an internal locus of control. What does that mean? According to Wikipedia,
“The Locus of control is a concept in psychology, originally developed by Julian Rotter in the 1950s. People tend to ascribe their chances of future successes or failures either to internal or external causes. Persons with an internal locus of control see […]

Remember Skeeter? Scooter’s twin sister from the Muppet Babies? Did gymnastics all the time? What happened to her between the Muppet Babies cartoon and when they all grew up and put on the Muppet Show? Because she is mysteriously missing from Muppet Show and no mention is made of her. I smell a cover-up.

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The Movie Of Your Life Is An Indie Flick

You do things your own way - and it’s made for colorful times.
Your life hasn’t turned out how anyone expected, thank goodness!
Your best movie matches: Clerks, Garden State, Napoleon Dynamite

If Your Life Was a Movie, What Genre Would It Be?

Just a stupid piece of paper.
From a fancy tree in some Northwoods acre
But it’s all it took, it seems
To come between you and me.
A sea of time
As the hall clock chimes
And I’m stuck eternally eating limes
In silence
With no lemonade this time
Waiting for something to materialize
Hoping for some compromise
What was our crime, yours and mine?
Four years, […]