Sitemap - 2023 - Scranton Time - bits and pieces from Tom Flannery

"We are insignificant little shits in the grand scheme of things..."

And just like that it’s over....

"I’m a complete sucker for the tree in the front window. Houses that offer this should be given a tax break...."

Santa is lucky he can fly....

We’re all immigrants...

Why am I asking the source of my anxiety to fix my anxiety?

Ask Me Anything - V1

Ask me anything....

"The Irish are born pining for Ireland. It’s like a phantom pain...."

"There was always a twinkle in the eye, even if it came from the reflection of the ice in his glass...."

Car talk....

"And now for the come down...."

Tales from the kiddie table....

"Go outside and help your father...."

"His voice was the only cure for the blues that I ever knew...."

How do you NOT overreact?

Thanksgiving Tree

Now and Then is better than never...

The Exorcist brought the devil...

"not simply red flags, but solar flares..."

Hackney Diamonds

The lottery of belief.....

"October also underscores the by now yearly shattered dreams of Yankee fans...."

"Like the Spanish Inquisition, nobody expects hornets...."

"There is nothing more savage than a man who kills because he thinks God wants him to..."

"Everybody needs to do better for us to be better...."

Swelce

"remember the moonlight...."

"the lesser of multiple evils..."

Everybody is on everybody else’s last nerve...

Get well soon, Boss....(pt II)

"A meanness in this world..."

Climate Change and Bigfoot

Get well soon, Boss....(pt I)

Train Kept a Rollin'

I was shocked when I heard the news. I shouldn’t have been.

"Even now, decades later, I’m still hard-wired to be creeped out this time of year...."

“I swear not everybody is like this”...

Thank you Cameron Crowe....

Music Memory and Charles Chip Cans....

The fulcrum.....

Robbie Robertson

Friday Night Lights

The boys of summer....and Love's Baby Soft

Drive Back Home

Sinéad

“Ben? Is the doll in the room with us right now? Show me where it hurt you….”

Try That in a Small Town

Hijacked

Kennedy is the ultimate insider running as the bomb throwing “outsider”...

Bits and Pieces....Bits and Pieces...."I bet you won't share..."

Grief

Capital offenses....

Melania and Bobby Bonilla Day

Surviving Las Vegas - pt III

Surviving Las Vegas - pt II

Surviving Las Vegas - pt I

Rest now my friend.....

"FUCK THE WILDFIRES.." RIP Iron Sheik

Get off my lawn....

How are YOU doing lately?

"I don't know a single patriot who ever declared himself one..."

"You know what she sang like? She sang like if she didn’t sing, she’d die...."

Kiki

The Tracks Of My Tears

"King Charles the whatever.."

"Despite 8 years of Monty Python's Fish Slapping Dance, CNN still seems stunned when he doesn't act normal...."

ChatGPT and trees that stand good

Why does it take the eulogy to say "I love you..."?

"So what’s next? Metal detectors and armed guards at the Doctor’s office?"

Gordon Lightfoot - "I wish you memories like this...."

Just saying no thanks to Jim Morrison

"Nothing in the world arrived faster than a Monday morning. Its alarm seemed triggered by your eyelids...."

The Grillmaster

Journalism vs Stenography

"So there I was boarding the plane and standing behind a lady carrying bags large enough to sustain a Mount Everest attempt...."

On the road again...

"I bring this up merely to show that the responsible gun owner narrative has been taking a real fucking beating lately...."

"Sometimes it feels like Dolly Parton is all alone down there...."

Mandela and Jesus and Kid Rock fans

Yellowjackets

INDICATED! (sic)

"Find yourself a lover who looks at you the way Republicans look at guns. That would be my relationship advice to you...."

Stephen King, Stan Musial, and the creative process....

Limbo

"All this has a bit of a 'Al Capone machine-gunning half of Chicago but going to jail for tax evasion vibe to it..."

Riverdance

O'Flannabhra

Bowling with the Boeberts

"But heaven help Snedeker if he predicts 3 (or 5) inches and we get 4. Suddenly he's part of the Illuminati...."

"It's a bit like getting into a rock fight, ending up in the ER with a busted head, and professing to having no idea what might have hit you..."

"And no, there are no long wait times for care in Canada. You know how I know this? I asked a Canadian...."

"Turn off your mind / Relax and float down stream.."

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

The Birds

Happy birthday Jim Barrett. And thank you...

"It's work and it's play and on the best nights one overwhelms the other...."

"The Wind tells me I'm a ghost, but I don't believe it....."

The Moondance essays – Track 5 Side 2 – Glad Tidings

"Not a promise anybody can make..."

The Moondance essays – Track 4 Side 2 – Everyone

"Greased for nothing...."

The Moondance essays – Track 3 Side 2 – Brand New Day

The Moondance essays – Track 2 Side 2 – These Dreams of You

The Moondance essays – Track 1 Side 2 – Come Running

The Moondance essays – Track 5 Side 1 – Into the Mystic

The Moondance essays – Track 4 Side 1 – Caravan

"And how many Mothers, even with grown sons, are sitting in the dark, waiting for them to get home?...."

The Moondance essays - Track 3 Side 1 - Crazy Love

The Moondance essays - Track 2 Side 1 - Moondance

The Moondance essays - Track 1 Side 1 - And It Stoned Me

"This is what the Band would sound like if they woodshedded on Cyprus Avenue instead of Big Pink...."

"Who votes for these dishonest shitheads?"

"The song never remains the same...."

".....and I remember Bono's mullet and thinking, even at a time when a mullet was acceptable, that a line had been crossed..."

"Nobody really knew what belonged online so everybody decided all at once that everything did.."

"Writing is a lonely endeavor. You write before or after the party, not during it...."

"You could make this stuff up but it wouldn't be nearly as pathetic...."

"Sometimes it's hard to trust the universe...."

Always time well spent...