amfortas the hippie

I haven't thought ...about Her...in almost a year... Of course, I lie... I've thought about Her with every song that evokes a hil...

… ..Bored out of my damned mind. That's the biggest thing. I'm unable to do the simplest thing, to my satisfaction. Can...

My normal time of awakening...between 3 and 5 am....is certainly problematic, these days. Home for 2 and a half days, I could probably get t...

Titanium Hip, and almost a 3 hr drive, and I'm propped up like Nero, on my nest of 19 pillows, with a mountain of books arrayed within ...

So I’m Calm, now. Hour or so of that Yes! album(“Classic”) I got at wallywirld(ugh)… Lite Beer(b/c I don’t really like it) Now Mile...

Friends and Relations, and the Necessity of Dissent. In an insular and isolated community, social reinforcement mechanisms ofte...

So I’m scheduled for Hip Replacement Surgery, on the 25th of this month… In North Austin. The “Pre-Op”..wherein they hook me up t...

(with a wink at IK) Roszak is describing, in outline, a natural confluence of two rivers…Cartesian Dualism…the Scientific Mind of...

I inadvertently saved a receipt from Walmart. from 1996….I found it a few years ago, in a box…and put it in Wealth of Nations…over th...

Sorry, if I offended. I wrestled with that last thing…to the Nicholas Lizard.( http://amfortasthehippie.blogspot.com/2013/02/pis...

 Re: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323539804578259940213918254.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Nicholas, Regarding the ...

-disability-fraud-hysteria Ugh. I think Mr Eberstadt might need to hear from me, today. This little meme has been growing, sort of in th...

Last week, amid what I consider Arctic Cold (yes, I am a wimp, when it comes to this shit…), The Box Stove in the Library shows s...

“If the President is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased t...

So. A Book Budget. After all this time, I’m ecstatic when the mail comes. Giddy, even. I’m halfway into the Dharma Bums…my ...

Safer http://www.saferchoice.org/content/view/1028/84/ http://blog.norml.org/2012/12/20/teen-pot-use-stalls-as-states-continue-to-regulat...

Another day, another Mass Shooting. What is a Freedom Loving Country to do? Many are calling for, ironically, More Guns… If onl...

.....Out of Addiction.... http://www.alternet.org/drugs/marijuana-exit-drug-study-suggests-some-are-taking-it-substitute-prescripti...

Having kids, it’s difficult to hate, outright, Xmas Morning. Aside from that early hour, or so, I find it otherwise quite simple ...

On Secession and Federalism Dig it: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/will-secede-why-its-not-just-right-wing-fantasy?paging...