The Fat Man Today

 I saw a Quora thread that was basically a deconstruction of what made the current seasons of Doctor Who terrible. You can read it here if you want to scream at somebody else who isn't me because you can scream at me all you want and I wouldn't care...

 I don't write as well as I used to back when I was a lot younger. Nor am I as creative. The cogs of my brain seem to have slowed down to a pedestrian crawl as I became older, as I started to focus more and more on the morose business of living life...

I don't exactly remember how it went down, but when I heard about Eddie Van Halen's passing, I had to stop and take a beat. This wasn't one of those moments where you feel the end of an era, as what many probably felt with the recent passing of Justice...

Memory is one of those funny things. They come up without warning from time to time, when you hear the odd song, smell a specific scent, or eat something specific. That is to say, memory seems to be intimately tied into the senses.
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