The Paltry Sum: Detroit Richards
I write at www.thepaltrysum.com
Hope, Faith and Love with Basho (Haiku)
Hope’s a luxury Expensive commodity A gamble I lose. Faith is loud but blind Screams Her strict demands and cries When I prove brittle. Love drives hooks through flesh Hangs you from the Wailing Wall: Willing sacrifice.
More6 Foot Stupid Bulldozers and Incel Wierdos
I grabbed the Boy’s arm and dragged him to the door. We were going to go out. We were going to go out and have fun if it killed me. I amuse myself sometimes. We had to walk up to pick up some things from an Amazon locker, just socks and a few white tees, […]
MoreBig Thief Stealing the Show
Lenker is violently vulnerable as she ever was. I can’t tell you how much I love this band. The pandemic clipped their touring wings, and as much we have been left waiting for life to come around again, they seem to have been desperate to get back to stealing the show once more. The drummer, […]
MoreDown Here With The Rest Of Us. Mike Ness – white light white heat white trash hero
I love Social Distortion. I have a neverending urge to play Down Here With The Rest Of Us through neatly manicured state and national campgrounds that pander to the quarter of a million dollar motor homes, while not making any space for those of us who can only afford the rent on a campsite and […]
MoreIt’s The End Of The World As We Know It…And I Feel Fine, REM!
As the aftershocks hit Tokyo from the Big One, I put on REM and laughed to myself. OK, so it wasn’t a big brave belly laugh, more a freaked out high pitched giggle, but I grabbed the kids hands and danced the around the shaking living room and we laughed and danced and sung. Pig […]
MoreAffordable Housing and the City, and why I am suddenly miserable here
There is a lot of empty housing in San Francisco – there is plenty of vacant stock, but rental prices are holding firm and have risen slightly, despite the exodus from the city. I understand that the buy to let scam has encouraged hugely inflated prices, and minimum rentals as dictated by mortgage companies at […]
MoreThe ability of music to move and the beauty of people who love people.
By all accounts Townes Van Zandt was a difficult person when he was drinking, which was much of the damn time. The trouble with living a solitary life cut off from the rest of society, no friends close by, no roots or links is that the people you read and you listen to become your […]
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