Three Lanes Moving Slow
Telegraph Road – Dire Straits (14 minutes; I love my long songs) The current price of gas, average it out, carry the ten, is somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.50 … Continue Reading Three Lanes Moving Slow
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Telegraph Road – Dire Straits (14 minutes; I love my long songs) The current price of gas, average it out, carry the ten, is somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.50 … Continue Reading Three Lanes Moving Slow
By Gwen Lombard WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW The show opened with Cody Rhodes about to speak to the crowd but was quickly interrupted by Dominik Mysterio. Dom announced that he … Continue Reading This Week In Wrestling: Championships, Redemptions, And Approaching Dreams
Foggy Mountain Breakdown – Earl Scruggs A banjo is not a guitar. A banjo is not a guitar as a bat is not a bird. What’s the exact point of … Continue Reading Forward Roll
By Gwen Lombard WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW This week once again opened with Jey Uso addressing the crowd, but was very quickly interrupted by Kevin Owens who informed him that … Continue Reading This Week In Wrestling: Triumphant Returns, Tested Friendships, And Rising Tensions
By Wilson Krause High Water Everywhere (Parts I and II) – Charley Patton It’s been rainin every single night and day for two weeks. We’re livin up on a hill … Continue Reading High Water Everywhere
By Gwen Lombard WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW Monday Night Raw opened with a promo segment from Jey Uso, having been drafted to Raw during Payback. He quit the company three … Continue Reading This Week In Wrestling: Tournaments, Record Breaking Reigns, and Ongoing Familial Troubles
By Wilson Krause Highlands – Bob Dylan (It wouldn’t be right for me to talk about my near-and-dear music without him) The night I slept in the inn that sat … Continue Reading Heart in the Highlands
By Gwen Lombard This past weekend saw two Pay-Per-Views, World Wrestling Entertainment’s Payback, and All Elite Wrestling’s All Out, the latter of which was the follow-up from a historic, record-setting … Continue Reading This Week In Wresting: WWE’s Payback and AEW’s All Out Pay-Per-Views
By Anne Whitehouse We lie on blankets in the grass grateful for the scratchy wool in the sudden chill of night deep within the virgin forest at a family reunion … Continue Reading Meteor Shower
By James Callan A mop and bucket. Warm, soapy water. Even as an advanced, extraterrestrial life form, a member of an elite, illustrious race of spacefaring beings, Friand was a … Continue Reading The High, the Low, the Essential
By Michael Lee Johnson Arthritis and aging make it hard, I walk gingerly, with a cane, and walk slow, bent forward, fear threats, falls, fear denouement— I turn pages, my … Continue Reading “I Age”, “Crypt in the Sky”, and “Priscilla, Let’s Dance”
By Ev Dearborn Song carves through the lounge in disharmony,Collapsing in the foyer, to lay down on its belly by the stairwell. Her spine, feline.She convulses, coughs, grits her teeth … Continue Reading Lament for Piano
By Venus Wright When I was young, from about two years old until around my fourth or fifth year on earth, my mum fibbed every time I’d ask for juice. … Continue Reading Secret Sauce
By Venus Wright I walked out the front door of my apartment building, stopping on the stoop to look up and down the street. Millennial mothers with strollers power walked … Continue Reading Lucas
By Vera Sandronsky Breasts ache, tightness, and pain. Another infection. Why does this keep happening? Nothing else about breastfeeding has been hard. I am hungry in the middle of the … Continue Reading Motherhood: An Ocean of Love and Change
By Mark Belair The Canyon This row of old, soot-blackened buildings holds dark despite being directly struck by sun, each Structure rising, unusually, to the same height, their cornices creating … Continue Reading “The Canyon” and “At Recess