On Minority Rule
Should anyone be interested in the bizarre jolt of optimism that had me calling the Georgia senate races the night Biden was named president-elect.
On Accountability
Everyone keeps acting like Trump is a f$&king mob boss controlling those around him. F$&k that sh$t … he is the bullsh$t babbling baboon puffed up like an orange balloon that we all clearly see him to be. Trump is the f$&king tool.
On Raging Bulls
Loving your Trump+ routine, Lindsey. You go get yourself that Trump 2022 base. Wait, are all y’all rope-a-doping Lindsey? Better let me know now, if so, before someone finally gets around to showing Mr. Graham the future I have chosen to write for him.
On Bright Futures
Even when I answer the why to their behavior, the pure obstinance required by Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio to block out the reality of where this path ends still gets me. It was never a sustainable, career extending path to walk.
On Cycles
This is a unique inflection point. The weight of this moment makes my bones feel heavier than I remember. When our legislators stop working for us their concept of civil service must be corrected.
On Political Analysis
Any postgame analysis must account for the current ecosystem by which we download information in this nation, the one which bifurcated our society into two distinct bubbles. So let’s have a closer look at what lies within these bewitching bubbles.
For a platform touting itself as being for the promotion of writers, Medium sure feels like the most useless of the bunch I have come across thus far.
Zack Snyder’s Justice League … totally worth it.
The time I decided to ignore an existential crisis by recreating a dancing bears dog collar made entirely out of knots.
The time I decided to ignore an existential crisis by rolling my own electronic pipe.
Guess I will leave taking my cross-post category out of my category cloud as something to do over breakfast.
Music more your thing? Spent a couple days making some of that as well. I had just gotten FL Studio some time in 2006 and felt like messing around.
Totally went through this old suitcase of decades old (and pre-ADHD / Dysthymia diagnosis) poetry should anyone wish to point and laugh.
(And, yes, one is a fairly recent essay passing as poetry but why am I justifying myself to an empty room?)
On Pet Loss
What I have lost … and what I have gained.
Read More (62 cutie pie critter images and videos, may require patience over slow connections)
Wonder what I will do once I grow bored of reverse engineering Hugo version 0.54 (at least the Micro.blog blackbox keeps things interesting, if only sh$t would build (and caches would empty) faster).
Tell ya what, if I ever need to know what beer to try or what book to read, y’all got that sh$t on lock with the Micro.blog discover timeline.
On Moving the Needle
I wonder what it will be like for things to get better after being arguably as bad as they have ever been.
On F$&king Up Careers
Can anyone guess the best way to derail a career in journalism?
Wait until after your pick up your English degree (minoring in Mass Communications ‘cause you were at the best damn journalism school one could hope for after all and just not showing up to class Freshman year at Georgia Tech, and initializing your collegiate transcript with a whopping 0.18 GPA, shouldn’t keep you out of Grady entirely)
Where was I … oh yeah … wait until after you graduate (the first time) to be diagnosed with dysthymia and ADHD.
You know how when you workout, it is a day to day thing … slowly building up results? What do you call it in reverse, with squandered opportunity?
Idea brewing: how my year long dive into social media has taught me that the world isn’t ready for real progress.
And seriously, a subscription doesn’t get me around the three story sh$te Medium, took all of three hours for me to cancel.
Jason Cardwell
Creative nonfiction, art, poetry, apps, philosophy, music, wood work, knots, political culture critiques … some of the things I make.