William Lobb's Blog, Newsletter and General Tomfoolery
William LobbNotes from decades of piracy and pillaging
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Unplugged and Alive
My dad had a deep and abiding respect for shade and ’51 Ford Shoebox convertible vent windows. I’m quite sure he never slept a night of his life in air conditioning.
While I never did come across bad shade, I accompanied him many days on t...
D-Day 2026
Today I woke up thinking of those fresh-faced farm boys, how many of them had never even managed to slip a hand inside a bra, had to leave such things as nipples and other of life’s mysteries to the realm of imagination, to go jumping off H...
Please Make it Stop!
I accidentally heard a 21st-century country song this morning. Godawful shit. But it was the consummate modern country song. It was sung—or painfully moaned—by this ol’ boy who sounded like he had a mouthful of cotton and Juicy Fruit.
This...
Pete, My Friend, Not Pete Hegseth
I’ve been remembering my friend Pete today. I’ve written about him before. Pete didn’t die in the war, he came home; but a big part of Pete was left on that hill in South Vietnam and never left that place.
That part of him that never came...
Ghosts
I die a little more each year, in the late winter, when the post-Christmas and New Year’s party time has passed away and we are left with only a gray and cold string of endless days. In those short dark days and long nights of the New Year,...
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