‘Shine’ Time
December 25, 2021A supposedly special day despite reality — what will I find: I’m gonna let it shine I’m gonna let it shine Heaven’s little light gonna shine on me Hey, yeah, hey, yeah Heaven’s little light…
Category Archives: History
A Smile Story
December 24, 2021Already a seen thing by just about everybody, but it’s way appropriate: Story/background narrative via The Daily Mail this morning: A Washington DC elementary school teacher who played basketball in college gave her third-grade students…
‘Destination’ 11 — ‘Understand What I’ve Become’
December 24, 2021In lieu of dismal words this Friday morning on the eve of a holiday, another post in our ‘Destination‘ series of music and non-hand-wringing (last one here and if you want, follow the series backward…
T-Rump Lost The Election — Needs A Jail Cell
December 23, 2021Is the T-Rump going under or what? Time will not tell: Did the T-Rump just misspeak as he has tons of times before? Or it’s the itch of keeping a lid on such a most-prominent…
Joan Didion — R.I.P.
December 23, 2021In the early 1990s, during the opening phase of my life-altering divorce, I took a nighttime college course in literary marketing — manuscript devices/ideas, finding agents, trolling for publishers, whatnot — and although the course…
‘Idiots’
December 22, 2021Overcast and cold this early Wednesday evening here in California’s Central Valley — a rainy out-of-doors, too. We do feel like it’s raining all over the world, especially among the imbecilic. An example of knowing…
Time Melting Away For Voting Rights — And Democracy!
December 22, 2021As Republicans slowly-swiftly strangle democracy at the voting booth, there doesn’t seem to be much we can do, other than get as many people out to vote next November as possible. Until then: Shitty details…
Nurse On Young COVID Victims: ‘One Of The Days I Went Home And Just Cried’
December 21, 2021Fading sunshine and cold air this early-evening Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley, as we claw closer to the holiday drop zone, now just four days away. Christmas might be a little stand-offish this year.…
Shortest Day, Longest Night — And Happy Birthday Samuel L Jackson!
December 21, 2021Just a while ago this Tuesday morning, the real heads-up on our current life predicament — shortest day, longest night — and the starting of most-likely a festered winter of our discombobulation: Details via NASA:…
Manchin’s Misshapen Affinity
December 20, 2021Fallout off Joe Manchin’s back-stabbing Joe Biden’s Build Back Better act continues to flare and fester, especially as it’s known Manchin is just being a asshole-douchebag — news right-off-the-bat this morning and his core realities…