James' Blog

I was on a beach at Easter Island, fully dressed, trying to touch the water to see how warm it was…

I went to Halloween party in Bambili. Miriam was there …

I remember my father standing in the laundry room listening to the furnace repair man give long updates about the furnace. It was just a simple oil burning furnace for a mid sized house built in the fifties.

One day …

Hip-hop music.

Spanish spoken.

A brief burst of sunshine on a cloudy day.

The smell of marijuana.

An asian man driving a white hearse. Fast.

Trump’s presidency is illegitimate because we don’t have a democratic process for electing a president: we use the electoral college instead. Not only that, millions of citizens from the territories are disenfranchised. Republicans argue that “it’s what we have”. “It’s what we have”, because the republicans refuse to change it because they want power, regardless of whether they get it democratically or not.

Uncle Teenie never missed Sunday mass.  …

The coroner was waiting for us in the apartment parking lot.   …

“Any green snake in West Africa more than four feet long is almost certainly a green mamba.” -Snakes of West Africa.

I was listening to my short wave and finally a song came on the I liked, something by Elton John. …