Dave

Respectable personage by day. But by night, known throughout the underworld as FLYING FIST OF DEATH!

[Dave @whirledworld]

"Write what you know" isn't a rule. It isn't even advice. It's a crutch.

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@elonmusk Not until you bought it.

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@BenjaminMullin3 Classic!

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These days, anyone who isn’t in therapy is crazy.

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.@Ancestry, you lead to weird and wonderful discoveries.
cc: @metheridge

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Go home @politico, you’re drunk.

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@BenjaminMullin3 @KatTimpf If you can figure that out after a year’s investigation, you’ll be way ahead of almost everyone you’ll ever meet!

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By any standard, The Caine Mutiny deserves recognition as the great American novel of the 20th Century. RIP Herman Wouk, 1915-2019.

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The supreme ironic satisfaction of blasting “Voices Carry” as loud as you can. cc: @aimeemann

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Hell freezes over.

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I liked riding bikes with you, having you over for family dinners, talking with you, and writing with you. I’ll miss you, #JohnFalsey. Find peace.

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But people are strangers
They change with the curve
from time zone to time zone, as we can observe
They shut down their borders and think they’re immune
They stand on their differences
and shoot at the moon

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Gutted.

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#TiredOfWinning

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And the heavens were turning
like a wheel on a track
and our sky kept unfolding
And it will never fold back

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After hours
Late in the bar
By a darkened corner seat
Faded flowers wait
In a jar until the
Evening is complete.

[Race Radio @TheRaceRadio]

Be this guy

[Dave @whirledworld]

Merciful God
May my son be spared from war, somehow
As you have spared me, ‘til now

[Dave @whirledworld]

“But though kind Time may many joys renew,
There is one greatest joy I shall not know
Again, because my heart for loss of You
Was broken, long ago.”
~ Vera Brittain, Perhaps

[Dave @whirledworld]

“While looking into every busy whore's and huckster's face
As they drive their bargains, is the Face
Of God: and some young, piteous, murdered face.”
~ Charlotte Mew, The Cenotaph

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All quiet on the Western Front. A century ago at this moment, my grandfather, his brothers, and their friends who remained could finally exhale, and drawing their next breath, reflect upon the fact that they would not die in the what they knew to be the Great War.