Cloistered and Boisterous

This is a marvelous day for me, this early juncture exhorts me to insist, but only because I’m insisting upon it. All other people are free to have the sort of day of their choosing. So, as it stands now, I am committed to pragmatic positivity, regardless of whether I’m convinced of its actual evidence. [...]

every single none of you

You must and I’m sure that you do understand that the magnitude of any happening, no matter how infinitesimal, enfeebles us with our silly ideas of encapsulation. I know, for instance that there is nothing that I can justly consider comprehensive, when comprehension is itself such a bedeviling galore of therefores. This may sound anti-intellectual, [...]

Placidity vs. Acidity

There has been just too much that has happened to even write about my own life today. So, I’ll write about anotherthing (yes, that is one word). Now, where does that take me? What does that make me? I’ll be back just as soon as anything becomes clear.

Notably, Not Ably

Mono nono The tiresome taling continues. I’m such a languid excuse for a functioning adult right now that I’ll likely just stop typing here when I’m done. There’s nothing really to describe the feeling accurately, because it’s not exactly pain. Definitely, it’s dramatic, according to the descriptors that I can summon. But the intensity of [...]

Absentient

Okay. Bills, bills, bills. Overdue on everything. Have mono. Am at least working, but I’m working even to stay awake. Have not posted on the blog in any official respect since flag day. Tired of a diet of crow, because there is no nutritional value in metaphor.

Whose Bad?

I ran out of energy today to post onto this blog. It would be great if it could be a daily occurrence, which is why I’m doing this. But, today–so beautiful, and so needlessly complicated. Everything got so mired and direful. And nothing got done! Sorry. More soon. Please don’t exterminate or banish me.

Styles & Trends

In the face of my risking rending beneath all of this moronic life-and-living debris (i.e., impecunity), in the thick of thinking very quickly about how slowly I’d been doing just that, I spotted a book that I had pilfered from my lovely hosts Jason Willett & Kirsten Rook when last I visited Baltimore. Of course, [...]

The Bubble Bursts Eternally

Here from scratch we start anew e-i-e-i-o i can’t even sleep i’m so mired moreover in the resolution of this especial humor game, almost all contingent upon the diffident sadism as emanating from the hood of corporate persons. here i shall detail the perversity of this cascading mangle: it starts with a (sort-of) good thing: as i was [...]

New Things for Old

It would seem–nay, it DOES seem–that a new post is necessary. All of these convoluted incrementality blog spots are almost as irritating to oversee as they are to behold. Oui, oui, all the way home. What’s this coming year to bring? (That’s a fine thing to consider, Mr. Gallaher; if you repeat that with some frequency, then it [...]

ten days later

it’s silly to begin this post which is itself begun after a lengthy hiatus during which much has happened and after which I attempted to compose a sentence that is laden with as many prepositional clauses as possible, notwithstanding my lassitude at counting them in spite of myself. so, this is what’s that. i went to [...]

Global Time Is Now

It’s a bizarre day, and I’d say that it was something like “curious” if it were over, but it’s not. There’s that feeling akin to, “Alright. I’m done, and have seen quite enough. Can’t we just make tomorrow longer and have the day end RIGHT NOW?” I’ll say that I said that it was good [...]

Definition and Meaning (Not Even)

It’s been a WEEK? Holy carp. Something occurred, or must’ve done, to keep me away from this pleasant activity of posting daily. That’s fine; all that we are is irrefutably older. But the atoms and molecules that comprise us are ever assiduous in so doing, and they seem still to be keen on it, even [...]

Rock against Restraint

in case anything happens What a lovely day! We got a TON of snow, which is not/neither surprising nor enduringly enjoyable, but the sunlight is acutely exquisite.I had a poem to post here, but I left the power supply to my old computer in Virginia, and I don’t have access to any documents. (Plus, this [...]

Characters (with and without Spaces)

Let’s begin here. Now, thus refined, let’s continue. My name is Benb Gallaher, as everyone that knows me on occasion sometimes knows. That’s not my given name. My given name is the far-less-challenging “Benjamin.” This happens to be a name that I rather like. I am pleased that my parents gave it to me. Even [...]

I Concede, with Apologies

It can now be revealed that the colossal post-in-process of which I spoke yesterday pertained to having Multiple Sclerosis and the horrors of navigating the Social-Security disability process and how I could live in nearly ANY other country and not have to worry about the affordability and accessibility of healthcare. I’m happy to say that I [...]

Direct Me to the Nearest Surgeon

Hi, Everybody– As a person that can no longer umbrella his mistakes with newness, I humbly cry uncle toward Blogger and its unique capacity cooperate as it sees fit, which is increasingly seldom. I would swear at it, but to pillory a program is one step too abstract–the computer is behaving, and my family is blurrily zipping [...]

21 Questions Unraveled, Part One

Facebook. Ohhh, eww. Facebook. Of course, I love it and suddenly need it. Days and weeks evaporate. So, they’ve got this “app” called 21 Questions. There’s no real excuse for it, except to indulge narcisissm to an EVEN MORE unseemly extent than had heretofore been possible. One funny thing among many about 21 Questions is that it [...]

How to Do This

It is so blasted cold outside that I would laugh if I heard something very humorous, possibly. My clothes are in the dryer, and I would that I were there with them. But it is so lovely, and Vermont is so beguiling in that intangible, alchemical way that it’s always been. There’s an alloy of [...]

Adjective Old Year

Plerase note here that nobody says, “Happy Old Year.” On the day of New Year’s Eve, I wonder why they give up so easily in considering this ever-scarcer 2011 to be entirely spent. Today, it would be just like saying, “Have a good one,” which is hardly outside of the bell curve. I would suggest [...]

Spelling and Speaking

As a somewhat-newly minted 13-year-old person, I found myself a part of the callow and alkaline contingent of contestants in the 1991 Frederick County Spelling Bee. It was Friday, May 24. The night before, I had gone to the Francis Scott Key Mall with my mother and chosen some new clothing for the event. I was [...]

subjective observations

FROM EARLY JULY every time an opportunity–for conviviality, economic stability, right livelihood, whatever-the-eff rambunctious semi-adventure–appears, i have a burst of energy that is, all too often, not commensurate with the opportunity. often, my enthusiasm is utterly unwarranted, and is squandered as a result. it’s like electrifying an inanimate object and expecting it to come to life [...]

Afoot Ahead Ago (Go)

(FROM EARLY APRIL, 2011)Another indigestible specimen of world-class conundrum?Appealing a rejected filing for disability. Wanna know why?In America, at least, to have a disability is to contradict the allegedly robust American spirit, to somehow disrupt the free-market feudalism that has, evidently, “gotten us to where are” while “paving the way to a better tomorrow.” So, [...]

fractions: sweet talk for suckers?

the heat of the past week has killed our heretofore-struggling-in-earnest vegetable garden. done fried it up good and proper. i keep getting interviews and being oh-so-close to getting work, but alas, no. this is miles from interesting, but is “funny” when seen through the lens of Grand Overarching Philosophy that i’ve had to assume in [...]

fractions: sweet talk for suckers?

the heat of the past week has killed our heretofore-struggling-in-earnest vegetable garden. done fried it up good and proper. i keep getting interviews and being oh-so-close to getting work, but alas, no. this is miles from interesting, but is “funny” when seen through the lens of Grand Overarching Philosophy that i’ve had to assume in [...]

Recreationism

I’ve become something of a fool for these “stacked” daily blog posts, wherein I begin with Part 2: the wholesome-generally-anyway supplement to what doubtless a different (and, sometimes, baleful) Part 1. And, if I’m lucky enough to be struck with the notion, I’ll retitle the post . Like this post. One of the many subjects [...]

Summer of Thursdays

Okay, well, I’m covered with sweat, and I probably stink, but my nose won’t stop bleeding. Dignity. Ding dang dignity. Currently, I’m engaged in telephonic pleas with a battalion of creditors, but that’s only because i have a superb view of the 6:50 PM sun, and it’s making anything possible. This hold music is atrocious. [...]

Reasons Why

That is a title of phenomenal inanity, but maybe I’ll unearth in this process a reason for having titled this thus. It’s so damn gloopy that I spent 15 minutes, tops, outside today. For the unfathomable plodding remainder (cloudy days in Maine can’t help but plod), I peeled wallpaper. We will be moving soon (although [...]

you fill me with an average sensation

FROM LATE JUNE Telling someone (an old friend) about this blogon effheadbookled me at firstto realize that i’d not written anything on it or in it for nearly two moonswhich then led meto wonder what had happened at which, as if cued, all of these animals in my head commenced noising:some for attention,some to irritate me,some out [...]

I Had Let This One Go

I’m back. Like an erstwhile truant student, having to return to class after a protracted absence to feel pelted on arrival by conclusions drawn during the interim. Although this and that are regrettable, I am bored by remorse, and wouldn’t claim any for overunderstanding. Per my receding from the fore of the fray (as it [...]

Blame Me

When our Desmond, who is soon to be 4, was soon to be 2, he began composing and producing the pithy aphorisms that proliferate to this day. Often, they reflect to us the turns of phrase that have come to substitute for precise language, to particularly incisive effect.  An early example of this was seen [...]

Sudden Disarray

All that a person can do on the last day of March, with incredibly important paperwork due by day’s end (it has yet to be done, and I can’t even find it), the house appearing squalid with clutter, and no money with which to pay bills for the coming month, is laugh. So, there was [...]

Let’s face it.

Everything is almost (but not quite) preternaturally lovely. My family is outstanding. Holy everything―the monstrously cute kindness of the youngsters, and Molly’s inordinate, exquisite wondrousness. I dunno what on earth a person can do in these situations, except be like, “Oh my word.” Don’t think that a birthday change is in the stars or cards [...]

Let Me Eat Cake

No longer is it possible in any wise to pretend that I am any younger than thirty-three years old. Evidently, the big dumb sun has anchored imbecile earth to spin round it yet again. But it’s not bad, yet, because I have yet to awaken as a thirty-three-year-old person, kvetching to determine what havoc the [...]

The Thing about Things

Vagueness is very special, in that it initiates a process that is unique to each beholder. Everybody has a somewhat-different version of what “thing” means in any idiom. And I was being vague, but “the thing about things” at this moment for me is “the difficulty about titling blog posts.” The good news that I’ve [...]

Origin vs. Destination

Hello! I got some great news this morning, but I’m going to take a little while to process it advance of blathering. So, I guess that this is a stop-gap affair, but I am willing to wager that you are cool with that. In Brunswick, Maine, what to report? March 24, and it snows.  I’m [...]

Flossing Is for Losers!

There was no reason to post this other than the title. It hit me like a bread sandwich.

Flossing Is for Losers!

There was no reason to post this other than the title. It hit me like a bread sandwich.

Don’t Read until Reading

…the Preceding Blog Post. [Actually, due to Blogger's strangenesses, you have to scroll down to see it. It's called "Preposterity."]Right. I have to continue, effective where yesterday left me and I left you (cruelly, just after dispensing [for your edutainment] my singular brush with Vanilla Ice). Thus refined…Molly and I considered July 27th, but we [...]

Preposterity

There’s an executive decision that’s been made, and I’m not talking about yet another disproportionate resource-driven slaughter of civilians that is somehow meant to illustrate how bad it is to kill civilians (I mean, duh. If they really are civilians, then why don’t they just stand clear of the damned ordnance?). No. I’m talking about an [...]

Preposterity

There’s an executive decision that’s been made, and I’m not talking about yet another disproportionate resource-driven slaughter of civilians that is somehow meant to illustrate how bad it is to kill civilians (I mean, duh. If they really are civilians, then why don’t they just stand clear of the damned ordnance?). No. I’m talking about an [...]

the chores existed

The Chores. I loved them. http://thechores.bandcamp.com/album/the-chores-existed

Daylight Squandering Time

the time what time is it again is passing yet it’s labored like trying to sled downhill only to sink into the snow and it’s also like growing taller while standing in quicksand there is little if any discernible change now it’s late and sleep can’t happen because the days have just been stretched in [...]

The Idea of March

It’s mostly incidental that things that are said or written are beheld as “statements,” especially in an era that finds people so externalized into appliances and applications. You know, people are (in the grand and general senses) divorced from one another, so wouldn’t it stand to reason that impact is divorced from action? Why else, [...]

Only If You March First

BEFORE ANYTHING, I gotta say that I LOVE COMMENTS; how else would I know that you came here naturally instead of through the ridiculous tags? Thank you. (Before this post commences, I should tell you about the night’s vagaries: just as I was getting ready to publish this, the computer crashed and would not restart. [...]

Cessation vs. Sensation

1/30/2011, 12:42 PM Well, a return to Maine has occurred, along with compounded confusion. Twelve days in an unforgivably pleasant climate does things like change minds. There will, most assuredly, be more on that in future postings, but this time (i.e., now) requires a gesture of solidarity toward an old friend now suffering the throes of theMediocre Life [...]