Take This Thing Back to Baltimore

Oct 18, 2025          oh my / goodness      Wearing out / (y)our welcome as we do before during and after hulk-smashing away at (t)his Take This Thing Back to Balti-memoires and oh / my goodness indoors at (t)his second favorite second favorite second favorite second favorite second favorite second favorite  home away / from home, the Starbucks edition on the corner of O-Town’s Bank Street and Third Avenue - ‘Eightbucks’ The Simpsons as always renamed it better in one of the(ir) (still-running?) episodes as we do, though god bless them the staff or (wo)management at this particular franchise has reprogrammed their AI or whatnot to give an option of a tip on the card reader of something other than the previous one dollar default for a three if not eight dollar cuppa, innit god, and it worked, (y)our (wo)man the barrista up on out on up on out on up on out on up on out on up on out on up on out on up on here cleane...

2016-07-31  Mowed                         Not exactly an exact science, cutting the grass was not exactly exacting physically, either, but it was exacting / enough, and more to the point it had to be done.   After a month of growing wild, followed by a good mowing last week, the   grass needed a job this afternoon that was more of a clean-up, a trim of the same, exacting / enough is all we gots.             Good times, of course his younger self would have considered it extremely poor planning to have put off the two-hour job of cutting the grass until before during and after the Sunday aftern of a three-day week-end, with Monday being the beloved Day Off Wo®k that four-lettered word, but then / again his younger self / is dead and gone, buried near the gravestone of the family Malamute, who died a decade ago, and whose memorial he...

  2016-07-28 ‘What / law ?’             From Die Hard to Deliverance , t here may be only six sto ® ies, innit perfesser, as Cin’s fellow-reviewer hulk-smashed it better, but these two blo © kbusters – or © ockbusters in Deliverance ’s case (that’s enough -id.) – surely borrow from several / at once, borrowing from several / at once is all / we gots.   What it is of course is that your men the bou ® geois © ubicombs and p ® ofessional building wageslaves and office d ® ones try to conquer Mothe ® Nature and her d ® oogies the local hillbillies of Tennessee, and guess / who wins, guessing / who wins is all / we gots.   ‘What’ Burt Reynold’s token Good Ol’ © ountry Boy Lewis in the movie akses it better of his three bou ® geois fellow-adventurers, before during and after they become his fellow-(b) / (s) / (m) / (mis) adventurers, and when the hillbillies introduce one of their number to unwanted anal / ® ex (h...

  Oct 13, 2025 Nothing  Still zon(k)ed /  out as we do before during and after yesterday’s 10-hour drive from The Beaches - ‘bless us our lord’, (y)our man Cin the humble(d) narrator of (t)his Take This Thing Back to Balti-memoires and nothing began yesterday evening’s grace that five-lettered wordle at dinner back home in Luksvegas better as we do before during and after digging / in to the same, and thanking the pig who gave its’ life because pork tenderloin prepared by (y)our (wo)man and their neighbor and guardian angel HrIsSuE, and then going on and on and on about the same and these thy gifts which we are about to receive from thy bounty, innit lord, ‘and thank you for Mario Ann-dretti the driver at the wheel’ and referring of course to (y)our (wo)man and the(ir) housemate the(ir) Ma Noslouc, whose driving at 130 kilometers an hour shaved two hours off the drive as we do - (y)our man Cin nevertheless manages to hulk-smash away at the same of this pleasant Monda...

  2016-07-27   ‘And they love / me.’             ‘Now you know why they call me’ Clint Eastwood as Di ® ty Ha ® ry says it better in the movie of the same name, ‘Di ® ty / Ha ® ry’, Di ® ty / Ha ® ry is all / we gots.   Course when your man I ® on Mike comes out his © ocoon, (y)our man Cin the humble(d) narrato ® of (t)his Take This Thing Back to Balti me-moirs and Di ® ty / Ha ® ry will be after referencing Clint Eastwood’s sta ® turn at the 2012 ® epublican Convention is the U.S. – he knows, he knows, he’s an Ame ® icanophile even as the country pours itself down / the drain, but he can’t help it he’s lived it and felt it, living in this country here, even / especially with its WTFednesday yoga afters on Pa ® liament Hill (and evenings from the looks of it an hour ago with everyone still stretching and Namaste-ing at the same) one of whose adherents Cin very nearly followed to the Hill from wo ® k this very after, ‘like living in...