Sebastian Malloy

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A few years ago, I read an article about an impending anniversary of 9/11 (I don’t remember which one specifically), and what I remember from it is a quote from one of the children of someone who died in the collapse of the twin towers.

So here we are, at the end of August, and the end of Blaugust as well, and so as not to bury the lede: I have learned from participating this year that I really am not designed to crank out a daily post unless I have something I want to say.

So Google has put their tongue to the Presidential boot once more, and renamed "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" (joining their previous bullshit of renaming the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America").

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Just a quick note to say that you are allowed to overnight chicks and ducklings through the mail in order to ship them from hatcheries to buyers, but when your “overnight” turns into “four days later,” you end up with a box of dead chicks and dead ducklin…

Apparently a Federal Court has said that it’s now okay for people to bring guns into the post office as long as they are “law-abiding citizens.”

If my grandmother were still alive, today would be her 100th birthday (or possibly her 101st; she was 95 when she died, but she insisted that she was 96, so who can say for sure).

… but Dolly was pretty damn close.

After having lived here for a few years now, I can safely say that there are two speeds at which everyone in rural Maine drives: either twenty miles per hour over the posted speed limit, or twenty miles per hour under.

Spent my down time at work today elbows deep in the files for my book in eternal progress.

… here’s a bit from a series of images I’m working on.