{"id":133128,"date":"2023-10-05T15:47:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T20:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=133128"},"modified":"2024-08-06T14:11:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T19:11:51","slug":"the-view-from-the-balcony-notes-in-my-phone-vi-and-a-few-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-view-from-the-balcony-notes-in-my-phone-vi-and-a-few-other-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The View From The Balcony: &#8220;Notes in My Phone VII and a Few Other Things&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Balcony-Phone.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Balcony-Phone.jpg?resize=640%2C376\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-114510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Balcony-Phone.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Balcony-Phone.jpg?resize=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Don\u2019t let my drama become your trauma.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My dog jumped up in the air to catch a ball but caught a bird instead. He looked at me as if to say, \u201cWhat do I do now?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Illiterati.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I just killed a copperhead with my stiletto!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ambisextrous.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No good story ever begins with a salad.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Asstrophysics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lifestyle creep.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pair o\u2019dice lost.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I think we should examine things through the lens of the North American marsupial and its intersectionality with wildlife rehab.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Optical allusions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My situation was so bad that 911 was calling me!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I\u2019ve had more than one second chances.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It\u2019s like rearranging the furniture on the Titanic.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cYou never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.\u201d (Cormac McCarthy)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indickative.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maybe it\u2019s not that the memory holds the feeling, but that the feeling holds the memory.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I\u2019m so old my vagina has to take a pill.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sanctimonious blues.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Covid ate the part of our hearts that loved each other.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My dog got a hankering tonight for Mexican food\u2013the neighbor\u2019s Chihuahua.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It\u2019s not fair? The fair comes once a year and that\u2019s in October.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They\u2019re friendly over the fence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That guy\u2019s gonna trade some cornbread for nirvana.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Et one Brute?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2-B or not 2-B? Which is the apartment?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your beers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Rejected music group names:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sunny &amp; Chair<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Smothered Brothers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Red Hot Chili Peckers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brooks &amp; Dung<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pink Freud<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pixie Chicks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guns \u2018n Posies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pootie and the Blowhards<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In Excess<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Almond Brothers Band<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Raw Cooter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Kentucky Bedhunters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indigo Grills<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jane\u2019s Affliction<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Motley Crude<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Uncle Crackhead<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pearl Jelly<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Modest Moose<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Beadles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nine Inch Snails<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No Pout<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Saw Your Gown<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Frying Burrito Brothers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tears for Beers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>U-Also<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Uriah\u2019s Heap<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Whitesteak<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>10,000 Brainiacs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blackberry Toke<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spleen Day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Quarterback<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Philco<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Black Peas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guns N\u2019 Moses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>Randy Weeks is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Certified Shamanic Life Coach, an ordained minister, a singer-songwriter, and an actor. So what? Randy may be reached at randallsweeks@gmail.com.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rejected music group names: Randy Weeks is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Certified Shamanic Life Coach, an ordained<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":114510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11902],"tags":[5,19614,4,10286,3,10878],"class_list":["post-133128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-randy-weeks","tag-mississippi","tag-notes-in-my-phone","tag-oxford","tag-randy-weeks","tag-the-local-voice","tag-the-view-from-the-balcony"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Balcony-Phone.jpg?fit=750%2C441&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141580,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133128\/revisions\/141580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}