Back! Open Drawers On Sight
November 17, 2023Back in the saddle again! Or onto the laptop again, whichever works! This is my first post after my cataract eye surgery last week at the Fresno VA Medical Center and from all early indications…
Category Archives: Musings
Please, Please Buy My Novel
August 17, 2022Here we are, shamelessly and audaciously without an ounce of any marketing savvy, crying for you as readers of this blog — that handful of sad intellectuals off the vast InterWebs — to buy my…
Sweet-Cheeky Funny
September 2, 2021Nice way to start a day in this doomscrolling era — way-funny and sweet (h/t Miss Cellania): And the reaction from the security guy is priceless, makes the scene not only comedic but touching —…
UFO Sensibilities
May 19, 2021In a break from below-ground chaos from Republicans, rattling cages in all direction, a quick look this Wednesday afternoon at the advancing news-cycle item of unidentified flying objects, which seems to have gained reputable status…
‘Forward’
March 4, 2021In context of this particular Thursday, the news cycle is getting old. Generally the same daily shit twisted as if in a Twilight Zone-influenced-Groundhog Day episode, and then repeats the repeating. Against the grain, though,…
Opening Sequences In Movies — Part One: ‘The Matrix’
February 27, 2021In lieu of real news to shit on, I’ve decided to start a new series commemorating a vital segment of movies — the opening sequence, also sometimes called the title sequence, which in the best…
Al Sharpton on the T-Rump’s Antics: ‘Wickedness in high places’
June 9, 2020Another near-lost most-ominous piece of particulars on the infestation of a “nightmare” — Dr. Anthony Fauci (CNN today): “Ebola was scary, but Ebola would never be easily transmitted,” Fauci said speaking at the BIO International…
Backyard
June 5, 2020Breezy and nice this late-afternoon Friday in California’s Central Valley, though in the mid-80s the air is way-cooler than the last two/three days, which saw temps in triple digits close to sundown. And we’re getting…
Bat-Shit Crazy Bookmobile — ‘Literature’ and the T-Rump
January 28, 2020Here it is the third day in the defense of the T-Rump in his Senate impeachment trial and the proceedings are batshit-crazy, mainly because it’s obvious the orange turd is guilty, but now there’s John…
Decades Gone
December 24, 2019On this supposedly special day, and toward the end of another decade, a musical flashback to a decade 20 years ago and a period I consider the best ever in rock-n-roll — the 90s. Although…