Today is Flashback Friday

Posting video to clear up space in my phone. First up,Dig D killing it on Galaga last summer.

 

Among my Failures in 2024: Summer

I fought the summer and the summer won.

I fought the summer and the summer won.

Sing it to The Clash or the Crickets. 

That's all I have to say about that.

Post-Summer Thoughts, 2024

Some very good things happened this summer, but in the last two weeks. Not during what people considered the "real" summer, late June to Labor Day.

During the hottest months, it was failure after failure.

My Summer's End Poem for 2024

Here's one more hay(na)ku. With an actual title this time.

Click here for the hay(na)ku poem I've been repostting at the end of summer for years.

 

Season's Reason

Summer's

dead, and

so are you.

 

Always

its plan

from day one.

 

Every

single month

kills, but June,

Up Nice and Early to Gloat About Summer's End

Perfect time to post my annual "Bye to Summer" poem.

Summer is Over

Here's an appropriate summer song by Atmosphere called "Summer Song."

 

Sumer 2024 Highlights: The View

Provincetown Town Hall during Carnival. Video version on Instagram.

Summer 2024 Highlights: Kathy Griffin

Saw Kathy Griffin this past summer in Provincetown. Balcony view, so the crappy videos are my fault. I will show pretty good video on Instagram. 

Coming Up

A couple more summer highlights. This time in video. Then I wrap things up tomorrow. 

I also might have an article bekmg published today. F--king maybe.

One Day More

And summer 2024 will be no more.

You look outside, and you'd think maybe summer left early.

But summer has played this trick before. 

 

Summer 2024 Highlights: The Ferry

 

 

I was sick as a dog, but the boat ride to my second stay in Provincetown was nice. 

Summer 2024 Highlights: My Poem in The New Verse News

I failed a lot as a writer this summer in ways that I don't want to talk about openly. One of my brighter spots was getting "Trump AI Generates His Second Inauguration" in The New Verse News. I had one day in August to go nuts and bang out a poem on a timely subject (Trump posting AI images of "Swifties for Trump"), and I did it. I was getting sick with not-COVID, so there was one error in the poem (over-capitalization, of all things), but I got that fixed once I could read without coughing. I even got to play with AI a little (hence the above image). Probably won't do that again (at least not with poetry), but I'm glad I got to play a little with this piece. If this is the only time I get published in The New Verse News this year, I'll be happy.

Summer 2024 Highlights: More Provincetown

In August my girlfriend and I attended Provincetown’s 46th Annual Carnival Parade with its theme of Renaissance & Revolution. It was after Kamala Harris announced her candidacy, and everyone present was riding high on new hope with Harris T-shirts being sold and worn everywhere. This is the best picture I could take before my phone ran out of power. I took many more photos on my girlfriend's phone. I hope to get those posted somewhere soon.

Summer 2024 Highlights: F---ing Monkeys

 

 

When you go into a Provincetown shop and you see a sign that says "Don't Touch the F---ing Monkeys" and you don't know what to expect...

Summer 2024 Highlights: Molly

There aren't too many moments of joy from this summer. In fact, I packed quite a bit of failure these past three months. I did go camping for the longest period of time ever. And I got to take this picture of Molly, who joined us the first couple of days. I don't share many photos of her, but this shot taken at the campsite makes me smile.

Marshy Marsh, Cape Cod

 

 

By the end of summer, the marshes of Cape Cod were more my speed.

Blessed Gray Day

Photo taken last Tuesday. I need to go back to the gray days of fall and winter. 

I'm going to die under all this light. 

Here Comes the Purple

After all the (acid?) rain, our hydrangea are finally turning violet/purple. Here art two of the more violety/purpley ones. 

Just Add Bleach?

Everyone's hydrangea plants now look like this (except for the ones that were deep violet from the start, which ours weren't). It would be fun if all the blue hydrangea turned deep violet over the last couple of weeks, but instead they still all remind me of a white wash that gets one colored sock in the mix by accident.

A Poem for the Heat Wave

Three Lines Written Over Dead Cherry Blossoms

Basho loved nature,

but today he'd stay inside,

AC on high cool.