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Dear Daddy, It’s been so long. What would you say to your Dad today if you could?
Subscribe to our YouTube Channel If You Like That Sort of Thing Click here for the lyrics What would you say to your Dad today if you could? For twelve years I have been asking this question on Father's Day at Fark.com. It has been so "cathartic" for so many, myself included. Each year I seem to gain something from the ...
Tahthedump, Tahthedump, Tahthedump, Dump, Dump.
This is silly but, there is something about going to the dump with your son. It's a ritual by now. We get a trailer full of junk and off we go. The stinky dump with the huge tractors on sheepsfoot wheels climbing over the pile of American over-packaging castoffs and old broken toys and shower doors. CRASH! The squeaky sound ...
Road Trip Music
For the most part you need to prepare yourself for YouTube comments. Internet comments in general are a mixed bag of nice, inspiring, insane, rambling, hateful, hurtful and silly. I have fared fairly well with most of the negativity restrained to the quality of my playing or the length of my hair. *Shrug. It's silly how a comment can just ...
Old dog, same old tricks
Well shit, I did it again. I overdid it. The trouble is, in my head I'm still 19. My body, on the other hand, is 62. In my zeal to get a little camp trailer remodeled and ready for a weekend in the mountains, I missed a chance to go away for a weekend in the mountains. Everything took longer ...
The American Dream: The unintended consequence of a 3-day drunken 4th of July party at my house
We are really lucky to live on the shore of a lake. It's beautiful most of the time and the wildlife is amazing. For 20 years or so, we held an annual event we dubbed Jam at the CAM. A two- or three-day party in my backyard with a stage, lights, sound system, we frequently had live cameras to the big ...
Have you ever been detained as a child? I was.
Have you ever been detained? I have, when I was a child. I spent a year and a half inside a facility for kids. I wasn't ripped from my mother's arms; they bullied her to sign the petition. It was as traumatic as you might think for a 12-year-old. It unequivocally wrecked me for years afterwards, with much therapy and ...