Free Bird from Duets Soundtrack by Arnold McCuller
It’s my last night in California and the first time I’ve ever posted from my patio. I can hear distant sirens, crickets on the hill to the west, and a man somewhere on a nearby patio drunkenly rambling on about the virtue of patience in public restrooms. The [...]
He lies even though truth claws up his throat, grips his lips, and dangles there like a rat clinging to the edge of a sewer pipe. It’s a funny thing, The Lie, because it’s so damn easy for him to believe given the circumstances. By the confused and hurt look on her face, she apparently [...]
Published: August 19th, 2007I had hoped something deep and philosophical would be flowing from fingers to keyboard by now. After all, it is my ten year Marine Corps anniversary. I had hoped my thoughts would be in order by now, and I’d be spilling page after page of wisdom on such significant topics as leadership, warrior ethos, and [...]
Published: July 28th, 2007I’m off the grid this weekend. I’ve decided to take the weekend and hike the San Juan Trail. Yes, it’s the same trail I’ve been mountain biking on and off for almost ten years. It’s also the same trail that’s beaten me like a rented mule in the past.
My original plan was to motor to [...]
What could I possibly say on video that couldn’t be more eloquently expressed in writing? Everything, apparently. [CAUTION: I tried to bleep out the worst of the language, but it still sounds like a USA Up All Night movie.]
Published: May 5th, 2007PostSecret was created by Frank Warren, a small business owner based in Maryland who started postsecret.com as a community art project. Since October 2004, Warren has received thousands of anonymous postcards which have been featured in galleries, the popular music video for the All-American Rejects’ “Dirty Little Secret,” and, most recently, in the bestselling book [...]
Published: April 1st, 2007Marines are in the spotlight again, this time in Afghanistan where they’re accused of shooting and killing civilians after a suicide bombing.
What a lot of civilians don’t understand, and what any Marine who has ever held a weapon in a combat zone will tell you, is collateral damage is a sad fact of war. We [...]
Cingular is the largest mobile phone carrier in the United States with over 60 million subscribers. Despite it’s famous rollover plan, I didn’t jump on the Cingular bandwagon until October 2005. My clunky Nokia smart phone was in a bad need of a downsize, and since the Cingular had bought up AT&T (or was it [...]
Published: March 18th, 2007Corporals Alexander, Sheedy, and Frew and I reflect on the past tour in Dulab and express our heartfelt goodbyes to those we’ll leave behind.
Rated PG13 for accidental strong language.
Dulab goodbye
Some reflection on the last nine years of my life in Corps, as well a spattering of currents events and future ops.
Rated PG
Nine year Marine Corps anniversary
