4.2.24I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend Trigger Warning: discussion of suicideIf you are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please call or text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org. I’m hurting tonight. Someone whose work I admire — a comic book writer/artist — committed suicide yesterday. It’s hit me so much harder than I …
Professor Sandman’s Cosmic Jukebox of Harmonic Consciousness: AMERICAN DREAM by Raye Zaragoza
4.1.24I took a sick day today. My first of the year. I hate missing time in the classroom with my students, and as of right now, my tummy still feels like garbage. So I don’t feel much like writing. But I just heard this amazing song on an episode of Resident Alien, a wonderful show …
Professor Sandman’s Cosmic Jukebox of Harmonic Consciousness: SYNCHRONICITY II by The Police
3.31.24Many miles awayThere's a shadow on the doorOf a cottage on the shoreOf a dark Scottish lake I had a song ready to go for tonight, but I’ve got something else I need to get out instead. I’m probably a bit too tired to even be tackling this, but here we go. Groundbreaking psychiatrist and …
Professor Sandman’s Cosmic Jukebox of Harmonic Consciousness: JUST DROPPED IN (TO SEE WHAT CONDITION MY CONDITION WAS IN) by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
3.30.24Someone painted "April Fool"In big black letters on a "Dead End" signI had my foot on the gasAs i left the road and blew out my mind I was born in 1974 and knew Kenny Rogers as the country singer who wrote and performed The Gambler, Coward of the County, and other good to middling …
Professor Sandman’s Cosmic Jukebox of Harmonic Consciousness: DOUBTING THOMAS by Nickel Creek
3.29.24Sometimes I pray for a slap in the faceThen I beg to be spared cause I'm a coward A few nights back (maybe a week ago tonight?), I wrote about Missed the Boat by Modest Mouse. There’s a line in that song that I didn’t focus on much in my piece, but it brought me …