Gerald Prokop

If you think of evolution as a three-and-a-half-billion-year-long laboratory experiment, and the gene pool as the store of information accumulated during the course of that experiment, you begin to appreciate that nature has far more extensive knowledge about her operations than we do.   –Micheal Pollan, Second Nature, p. 51 

I’m in St. Louis, in a Motel.  Everything I needed to get out of this trip, that I could get out of this trip, I already got out of this trip, and now I’m on my way home.  There’s little more than the potential for stress left over.  I’m running out of money, and being […]

I’m at the Main Street Cafe in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.  I was trying to make it into Little Rock to do my blogging, but it’s not happening.  I’m plugging away a handful of miles at a time, on very little sleep, in the pouring rain, with a stomachache, my windshield wipers slipping off the edge every […]

sad life awaits in the corners of the crowds everybody knows they’re gonna be alone deep down cover up myself with the road in my head but I know it’s no longer who I am this time I’ll look up if you look up we don’t need to stay here anymore I need you more […]

Bothered by the culture of the Interstate and wanting a straight shot into Austin, I left I-40 in Amarillo, TX for the US Highway System.  US-287 to Childress, US-83 to Abilene, US-84 to Brownwood, and then US-183 into Austin.  I stopped in lots of small towns in various states of disrepair.  Maybe if these places […]

As I start writing this, I’m waiting for my laundry to dry at a truck stop outside of Amarillo, TX. There’s a charge to use the WiFi, so I’m just typing it out offline. I’m on my way to Austin to meet up with the guys from Hotel Hotel. In Santa Fe I did my […]

I left for the open road on the afternoon of Friday, September 4th.  I had meant to leave in the morning after my 8 am oil change appointment, but what with staying up too late after the previous night’s Hexagon show, and spending a lot of time saying goodbye to the new love in my […]

Final Title: Groundless/Flightless We hang up in the air over everything down here I won’t settle I won’t stretch I won’t argue with the city on my side and the rest of it in time it’s enough just to keep my mind above the surface cast a room above your head filled with people from […]