I have always had a love for classic cars. I imagine it comes from my father, who has always loved them as well. Classic cars and car culture are quintessential parts of Americana and of what we imagine as this idealized America. They are part of our identity. While I am glad that we are… Continue reading The Road Behind
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Digging Up Graves
I have to be honest that I am a little curious whether everyone understands that all of us has a past. I keep seeing that folks decide from time to time to target this person or that and then dig, dig, dig into their lives - it’s so easy if you’re a celebrity because so… Continue reading Digging Up Graves
An Ode To The Paperback
I feel a little behind on this one as I missed Paperback Day, an annual appreciation of the paperback book, but I feel like there’s still something I wanted to say about it. As someone who is the child of readers and who grew up a reader there is something utterly wonderful and convenient about… Continue reading An Ode To The Paperback
An Ode To The Theaters
With the recent leveling of a theater I frequented as a film geek in my 20s, it occurs to me that we take those beautiful buildings for granted. Sure, we appreciate them when we need them, but when they are gone we really start to see how much they mean to who we are. They… Continue reading An Ode To The Theaters
The Chasm of But
There is a giant chasm that lies between what we Know and what we Don’t Know. A lot can get lost there. There is the old adage that the victors of a war tell the future the facts and the story, and it’s left to us and the people past us to decide how ‘true’… Continue reading The Chasm of But
Just Stop
We are well past the point of reasonableness when every misdeed, indiscretion, and moment of poor judgment warrants a lawsuit. We have become a society that craves justice as long as it comes with a paycheck. It’s become just another unfortunate part of our society, the need to punitively punish people and companies that do… Continue reading Just Stop
Do You Remember Falling In Love?
I tend to wonder anymore if we remember what it was like to fall in love with the things we love. In our rush to have everything at our fingertips at all times I think that convenience has made us lazy in how we consume the things we get an itch to hear, read, or… Continue reading Do You Remember Falling In Love?
You May Just Fall Off That High Horse
Are you like me and are tired, tired, tired of creatives pretending to be better than the projects they are involved in. These are folks who are hired guns and work on projects for a paycheck, whether as a creator or part of the support.Actors. Directors. Writers. Musicians. Whatever. Every project that isn’t creator made… Continue reading You May Just Fall Off That High Horse
Broken All This Time
Looking at the world around us, it’s hard not to wonder if we, as a species have finally broken or if we’ve been broken all this time. Take a moment and look around. It isn’t just the ‘street people’ who talk to themselves now, it’s a lot of us. Our moods have shifted, our attitudes… Continue reading Broken All This Time
Getting What We Want
We are at a point in history where I feel like we’re going to get what we’ve been asking for and very few of us will be happy about it. It startles me, really, that we endured four years with the worst, and most dangerous President in American history and have the scars to show… Continue reading Getting What We Want
But What If We’re Already Good Enough?
I can’t tell you how many years of my life I have spent believing all of the awful things people that didn’t like me told me or that I told myself. I would see what other people are doing with their lives and families and careers and would think What Am I Doing Wrong? I… Continue reading But What If We’re Already Good Enough?
It Just Doesn’t Matter
Do you sometimes get the feeling that it just doesn’t matter? In the whole the big old largeness of EVERYTHING but then also closer to the ground, things like the January 6th hearings and, for folks like me in Flint, the quest to punish people over the water. That none of it really matters. It… Continue reading It Just Doesn’t Matter
They Just Don’ Wanna Work
Another chestnut I love hearing these days is how ‘they’ don’ wanna work. You hear it a lot from business owners wringing their hands at people ‘not wanting to work’, the implication being these people, whomever they are, are both lazy and taking advantage of the system. This has been a familiar refrain for years… Continue reading They Just Don’ Wanna Work
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 