Some of you have been dying for Pittsburgh Steelers content (okay really just one of you) but I didn’t feel the need to write about them. Until now. The Steelers took on the Washington Football Team on Monday afternoon in a game that was postponed because of the Steelers-Ravens game postponement the week before. Pittsburgh entered Monday’s game 11-0 whi…

Welcome to the In The Chips with Barry previews email for the week of 12/7. Let’s get in the chips, shall we? Arnott’s Shapes Variety Pack Yes, sent all the way from Australia by the good folks at Treats From Oz, it’s a snack called “Shapes.” I’m not going to lie, that is not the most imaginative name but then again I don’t taste the name so we’ll leave i…

This evening’s announcement that the Transition is officially commencing comes as the anxious denizens of the nation’s capital are scouring the roster of the Biden-Harris “agency review teams” to see if our friends and frenemies made it onto these august bodies. But what do “ARTs” actually do?

over the past few months, i’ve been having a conversation—mostly with myself—about spiciness. i’m not really looking for an answer. in Jamaican cuisine, your meal’s heat is overstated. for the uninitiated, a chicken that’s truly been jerked can taste incendiary, or life-changing, even—at least for a little while. my parents used to throw a lot of parties…

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Happy Mother’s Day to all of the beautiful mommy’s and mommy’s to be. In light of today, book club will be postponed this evening to next week. I hope you all enjoy your Sunday! Love, AuJene’ x

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As someone who has been fascinated with technology and its impact on society for many years, I have always been interested in exploring the evolution of technology and how it has shaped the way we live, work and play. With this book, I take a deep dive into the history of the personal computer and how it has paved the way for the current exciting develo…

PTSD Pup© By Joseph P Dougan Eventually, though there are thirteen or more chapters in my Vietnam Life as an RLO stories, I will ultimately run out of wartime thoughts. I will get the June chapter out next week. In the meantime, writing is my form of entertainment. I ran across this story I posted last year that needs to be included in my subStack accou…

OMG! They Still Make Good Kids© By Joseph P Dougan The following story is a local human interest. I had posted it on a couple of closed neighborhood sites. The stories can’t be forwarded without a lot of copy&paste. I had a couple of requests to make the story more widely available, so I am putting on my substack site. I think you will like it.

Grieving the loss of a loved one who has died by suicide is a lonely experience. My family had all but erased my Uncle Benny after his death. Maybe we feared talking about his life would inevitably get us talking about the way he passed, and the pain of that felt like too much. So when I encountered my uncle during my psilocybin trip, it felt like one o…

I’ve been following the ChatGPT brouhaha with some amusement. I’ve tried it out a bit, and the smooth plausibility of its language is undoubtedly impressive. But my overall conclusion was that the only people it might put out of business are New York Times editorial writers. In other words, the artificial intelligence is good at things that don’t requir…

Had an illuminating conversation recently with a semi-fictional friend of mine, or perhaps I should say a former friend. I’ve sensed a certain coldness and distance for some time now, which has wounded and puzzled me. But purely by chance – long story -- an opportunity offered to ask about it.

I recently had occasion to rent a late-model car. I don’t like cars, and I don’t approve of them, but if you live in the US, this is sometimes the only way to get around. This car was quite nice in many ways. It would let me know if I was wandering out of my lane, for example, a thing which old and inattentive drivers have been known to do.

Economics is a topic that vexes me. Even among lefties a training in this pseudo-science always seems to lead to a curious dogmatism. You ask what seems like a simple question and often as not, you get some canned answer that suggests the question hasn't even been understood. But then perhaps my simple questions are simply imbecile.

So I went my dear shabby old Church’s Diocesan Convention today – a thing I always try to avoid; you think political conventions are bad; church conventions are much worse. I wasn’t there as a delegate, thank God, so I didn’t have to pay any attention to the parliamentary folderol. I was just staffing a begging table for a modest project I take an intere…

Poor Job: Among your sorrows, not the least Your friends: Let ring their resonant toponyms To the last age: Bildad, distinguished Shuhite, Eliphaz, Temanite; Zophar the whatsit, Ah yes, Naamithite. One does forget. For one has seen more than a few of these,

I try very hard not to pay any attention to any story involving Donald Trump, but one aspect of his recent indictment rings a bell with me. He’s said to be accused of 34 felony charges, but this is typical prosecutorial overreach. They’ve created a separate charge for each individual payment made, via Trump’s lawyer Cohen, to the rather amiable and witt…

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Jimmy Carter, looking oddly like Tony Blair here, as he does in many pictures. I wish Tony had gone first, but no such luck. I remember hating Carter with a passionate and well-founded hate back in the day. People think the Great Revanche started under Reagan, but it started under Carter, and anybody who was paying attention could see it happening at th…

Everybody knows the story, right? Christmas Eve in the first winter of the war, people aren’t quite brainwashed enough yet, and the soldiers on both sides stop firing and climb from their trenches and walk out into No Man’s land, which is now Every Man’s Land, and “fraternize” — remember how “Fraternity” was once a great revolutionary hope?

Bill, long-dead friend of mine, a rhymester, wrote A pome about the Alexandrian fire: Never so much hot air from one sole pyre. Scholiast fluff on Homer. My own throat Can’t quite form those words: though I shared a boat For whiles with Bill and greatly shared his ire