mat7thew

there's a small cabin on the back of the farm...so far back that it has no electricty and no running water. there is a well of the hand-pump spigot sort and kerosene lamps for light at night. the best part is that it's accessible only by four wheeler.

for the last eight years my best friend and i have rocked back and forth across...
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cheers to not having a damn thing to do except sit on the porch, chainsmoke, sip bourbon and wait for slow death.

please, don't take that as morbid. i'm honestly having a grand time.

frakking grand.

hells, everyday i get up and pray to jah, and he increases the number of clocks by exactly one...

and new records courtesy of the intraweb.

classic old school...
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mister cook once made me a mixtape and between songs he read quotes from different books (miller, bukowski, falkner, joyce, herrick, keats...) and one such quote was to the effect of sometimes you have to go a long distance in order to come back a short way.

after years of running i've finally come home...kentucky. for how long who knows but this time it feels...
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ALL WHO WANDER ARE NOT LOST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A supermassive black hole appears to be homeless in the cosmos without a galaxy to nestle in, Hubble Space Telescope scientists reported on Wednesday.

A team of European astronomers reported in the journal Nature that a particular black hole some 5 billion light-years away has no evidence of a host galaxy. A light-year is about 6...
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THEY'RE CALLING ME HOME, AGAIN

One of the fastest-spinning stars ever seen has been found by the INTEGRAL spacecraft. But researchers say the star's speed could be limited by gravitational wave radiation - theoretical ripples in space-time. The idea could be tested by upgraded detectors within the next few years.

The European Space Agency's INTEGRAL spacecraft, launched in 2002 to study high-energy phenomena in space,...
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what do you do?

too many mornings you wake up to read that yet another one of your mentors is dead.

right now it's hard to grasp...i've been stoned out on a legitimate painkiller binge for the last week. numb physically, mentally and emotionally...armed only with a nurse's guidebook to drugs i use to navigate my kaleidoscope pile of opiate derivatives, a stack of newspapers...
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A giant asteroid is to pass perilously close to Earth - on Friday, April 13, 2029.

Scientists said asteroid 2004 MN4 will make the closest fly-by of Earth for an object of its size in recorded history.

The asteroid, the size of three football pitches, will pass between the Earth and the Moon, though astronomers say there is little chance of a collision.

It is...
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A man who dressed up as a woman so he could steal women's underwear from a store in Kawai, Nara Prefecture, was arrested after an official saw through his disguise and alerted police, law enforcers said.

Investigators said Okumura dressed himself up in a long hair wig, a miniskirt and boots before entering the women's underwear sales section of the supermarket. After selecting three items...
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so it's back to kentucky...a funeral for a friend, another doctor's appointment...if i'm lucky i'll be around.

so i've got this gash across my abdomen that's being held together with staples. plenty of stiches before, just not the metal kind.

being home was sweet...just don't like how lexington is smoke-free now. when i visit lextown next time it'll be warmer so we can sit on the patio seeing as how the bar service has gone to hell at charlie browns.

and my...
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