Sitemap - 2024 - Scranton Time - bits and pieces from Tom Flannery
"And now for the come-down....(except...)"
The hellish, Orwellian iceberg awaiting your cruise ship....
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Baader-Meinhof visits New Jersey....
Clarence the angel and the Dukakis tank...
We’re now living inside an Onion article...
"Putin is doing the Prisiadka today...."
Bits and Pieces - F--k Your Feelings / Garbagegate / WTF Ads / Tomorrow is 4 months away
It’s a bad idea when billionaires own newspapers
The minute I became old enough to say “f--k this”, I said “f--k this”.....
Bits and Pieces - None more black / Coachella / disappearing buses / Benjamin Franklin / brown cows
"This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball...."
"Don't build monuments to the living, for they can still disgrace the stone...."
"He was always the rainbow...."
Fall / Libraries / Bigfoot / Radiohead / Just Say No
Mr. Creosote and the Concepts of a Plan...
The circle of “this can’t happen here” is forever getting smaller....
Ed Randazzo and the Soul of a Man...
"If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one..."
"...being taken for a ride 3 chords at a time...."
The Songs - Green Grass & High Tides
Weirdos and the blue meanies....
"Benjamin Franklin suggested that writers should only write what they wish to read...."
"It was a quiet day yesterday. Until it wasn’t...."
"These are surely the times that try men’s souls, in a different way of course...."
"If you were walking together and not paying attention you might end up talking to yourself...."
"....like punching Chuck Wepner in the face...."
"...Like tectonic plates pushing together..."
The Songs - Back in the High Life Again
The Killer and pools that can fit in your backseat....
"From a child to a sudden grown-up is the difference between Little Richard and Pat Boone..."
"We’d have to import marble...."
The Songs - Ain't Wastin' Time No More
The Songs - What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?
Tortured poets and not understanding Jazz or the need for Jack Antonoff....
"...snarled traffic and MAGA tears...."
The Songs - Nights on Broadway
We should never do this eclipse thing again...
The Songs - A Sort of Homecoming
"Here’s what you need to know..."
"The system is a trip wire...."
"I wouldn’t blame you if you needed to take notes on all this. It’s a lot to ponder...."
"An actual Rastaman Vibration that was real....."
"We seem to lack the ability to shame ourselves..."
Person, woman, man, camera, TV....and Elvis
The Songs - Who Knows Where the Time Goes?