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I’m going to bite that hand. In this space, it’s what I do. I watched my Mom approve welfare for her clients as I grew up. I know the social safety net exists. I’ve benefited from it over almost four decades. Over 10 years ago or so I came toContinue Reading

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First Posted 30-Apr-2015 Il n’y a pas de nouvelles histoires. You can skip this blog post and go watch “Misery”. It’s pretty much the same thing. Though, “Misery” is better than this post. Moving on, if you read this blog regularly then an “us” can grow out of the wordsContinue Reading

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First Posted 19-May-2015 First, a couple quotes from my days with a sore ass in a melamine chair at college: Chaucer, at the start of The Wife of Bath’s Tale, “In the old days of King Arthur, of whom Britons speak great glory, this land was entirely filled with fairyContinue Reading

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First Posted 20-May-2015 The sequence of the restored posts isn’t what it was in the prior version of this blog. I wrote “Women Are Awesome” forgetting that I’d written this post, In Praise of Women. I have plenty of company here. I am neither the first nor the last toContinue Reading

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First Posted 20-May-2015 That world exists. The one we don’t hear about because things move along unremarkable from mewling babe to ash. I know of it. My life is becoming that. That world isn’t what this site is about. You’ll never hear about it here. If that’s your thing, goContinue Reading

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First Posted 14-May-2015 I was asked if I’m being somehow secretly self-revealing in the use of the name SumYung HotTea and the phrase “horizontal bop”. As much as I have written about how I really don’t think it’d work out for she and I, this writer is suspected of desiringContinue Reading

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I started this differently in the first version. We’ll get to that. Before that, because I’ve been homeless more than I’ve not, most of my life the operating assumption is that to be comfortable I need to go out. I am most at home in a café or a bar.Continue Reading

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First Posted 20-May-2015 Source: 3 Things | aubreyeicher Reblogging this because I like it. Something to love: words, someone to love: working on it, Something to think about: how to be a stone in the resurrected temple of Christ, Something to do—be that stone in the resurrected temple. Yeah, leaveContinue Reading

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First Posted 04-Jun-2015 A bit of housekeeping before I continue with the post. The featured image in this post is Edward Munch’s, “The Scream“. Munch has been dead more than 70 years so his painting is in the public domain. My copy of his work comes from Wikipedia. Back aContinue Reading

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First Posted 24-Jun-2015 Ok, yungins, go Google “Herb Cain”. Also Walter Winchell. Both published columns talking about what was going on in their respective cities. Herb Cain was a fixture in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost 60 years. His columns were tidbits of news seperated by an elipsis. IContinue Reading