A song called “Wang Dang Doodle” off the definitive Howlin’ Wolf collection got me to thinking about atime in college when we were coming up with our hobo names. In the song are several Blues names.
There are a ton of name generators out there. They can tell you your porn star name, your [...]
I read somewhere that I write every day here at 1000 Days. Did I make that sound like every everyday?
There are excuses, some better than others. Some of those more believable than others. But you’ll not be getting those here or now. Instead I’ll try to fill in and complete that thing about Xinshi I [...]
[Maestro] stabbed two fingers at Xinshi’s chest and crooked them like he was lifting a fish from a bucket. Across the room the old man staggered forward. Certainly all the Ones knew this to be the [maestro's] magic. Nearly all of the Twos believed as well. I knew it to be [...]
It was strange to be with people I don’t know well. Maybe the strangeness was an adult version of being shy; maybe it’s just residual shyness. I doubt anyone that knows me would think of me as unaggressive in such situations, but I am. And have been for some time. I [...]