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The Evil Creator
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand...

Mike Dickey
Jan 9, 20253 min read


A Cold January
Trying to keep this blog from dying of inactivity after finding myself swamped in work while trying to make the transition into solo...

Mike Dickey
Jan 8, 20252 min read


An Orwellian Year
Well, 6 January came and went, the Cheeto Messiah was certified as the winner of the election, and the husband of a Republican senator...

Mike Dickey
Jan 7, 20251 min read


New Day, New Jet
"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns...

Mike Dickey
Jan 3, 20253 min read


Adieu 2024
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." -Seneca, via Semisonic in Closing Time Sitting at the gate at KECP, waiting...

Mike Dickey
Dec 31, 20243 min read


Farm Downtime
“what happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there’s nothing that you or anyone else can...

Mike Dickey
Dec 28, 20245 min read


Winter Solstice
"The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time...

Mike Dickey
Dec 20, 20243 min read


Closing Time
"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny." - David Hume Relishing the irony this morning...

Mike Dickey
Dec 19, 20242 min read


The Big Surrender
"No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence...

Mike Dickey
Dec 18, 20243 min read


The Last Final
“It helps if you can realize that this part of life when you don’t know what’s coming is often the part that people look back on with the...

Mike Dickey
Dec 17, 20243 min read
Remote Exam Hell
Finished my first NYU final yesterday, or so I thought. I was at my computer, ready to roll at 9:55 yesterday, set for a 10 a.m. start....

Mike Dickey
Dec 13, 20242 min read


Gameday
"Don't worry too much if you don't pass exams, so long as you feel you have understood the subject. It's amazing what you can get by the...

Mike Dickey
Dec 12, 20242 min read


Reaping What You Sow
"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know......

Mike Dickey
Dec 11, 20243 min read


Logophilia
"Words are all we have." - Samuel Beckett A perfectly bleak December morning in the Twin Tiers. I almost wrote "Southern Tier", which...

Mike Dickey
Dec 10, 20244 min read


Word of the Year
Turn on my VCR Same one I've had for years James Brown on the TAMI show Same tape I've had for years I sit in my old car Same one I've...

Mike Dickey
Dec 9, 20243 min read


Tactical Friday
In the bleak midwinter frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone: snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,...

Mike Dickey
Dec 5, 20243 min read


The He Man Woman Haters Club
"A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave . . . The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities . . . a natural...

Mike Dickey
Dec 4, 20243 min read


Explaining the Inexplicable
"One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions." - Horace So, the...

Mike Dickey
Dec 3, 20245 min read


Writing Day
"Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius." - Pietro Aretino Began my day crunching across the dusting of snow on the grass,...

Mike Dickey
Dec 2, 20242 min read


Over the River and Through the Woods
Home for the holidays I believe I've missed each and every face Come on and play one easy Let's turn on the love lights in the place It's...

Mike Dickey
Nov 27, 20243 min read
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