Not Literature

I‘m just too busy to post, and I haven’t been out to take pictures because of the Mother of All Forest Fires in eastern Arizona. This morning, we couldn’t see the mountains at all for the smoke. Still windy as hell today, about 12% humidity, 86 °F. I checked the weather in Albuquerque, where they’ve [...]

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This will sound familiar to some of you, I’m sure. All that happened was, I virtuously decided to have a PSA (prostate specific antigen) blood test to check for prostate cancer. It had been 12 years since I’d had one, and I needed to see if I was a walking dead man. This was a [...]

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Don’t try this at home, kids. Unfortunately, that’s where I was, and I did. See, I have these really great black Crocs without any holes, my “formal Crocs.” They work well as what people used to call galoshes, and I can wear them in fairly deep snow—not bad at all for short exposure, like tromping [...]

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Another strictly business post, because people are interested. I realized I needed to replace/upgrade my dead Pentax *ist DS, not futz around with a super-zoom toy. (What was I thinking?!) Image quality is everything, and the new Pentax k-x DSLR I just ordered will more than match the DS. Besides, I can use my old [...]

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A little more politics and comment on the national scene. Bear with me, and I’ll go off to take some more great New Mexico photos for you. But first, I need to get this off my chest: The Democratic health care bill as written by the Senate is an abomination and will not stand. They [...]

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All right, I’m in this. Let there be opinions. At the risk of turning away those of you jonesing for a fresh New Mexico fix (oh, I got more for ya), I’m going to say a few more words about the Great Insurance Industry Bailout Act of 2009 and why the mandate stinks so badly. [...]

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You may have noticed a lot of tweets about the Great Health Care Robbery in the “TaosJohn Feed” over in the sidebar. I’m not going to take up any of your time here with arguments or exposition, but I did find this fascinating list published in an article at Huffington Post by Evan Handler, in [...]

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I suppose you think this is funny. But look closely, if you dare! Now I know why my glasses always seem to be tilted: one of my eyes is lower than the other, yow! I just took three photos and they all look like this. Pretty horrible, isn’t it? (No, no, no, the EYES, dammit, [...]

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I seem to be doing remarkably well this morning, with people yelling at me from several blogs at once. It all started with a silly post at AmericaBlog where the author felt compelled to insult all Grateful Dead fans, and I insulted him back. Then I insulted the blog publisher as well, who promptly insulted [...]

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