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June 16, 2015

Dulcinea

Dulcinea passed away today. She had stopped eating in her normally robust way last month. Then started hiding, which any cat owner who has had a cat pass away knows is a sign. She wasn’t in pai...


June 05, 2015

Vampire Diaries

I have much to write about, but apparently no will to write. But I watched the first two episodes of Vampire Diaries. Observations: Tons of gorgeous twenty-somethings playing teen girls. And to...


May 29, 2015

Fields of Gold

Every time I sit down to write my mind goes blank. I actually had to look to see how long it has been since I posted and am not all that surprised to see damn near two months. The week long ord...


April 07, 2015

I Never Said Goodbye

If you want love, you’ve got to give a little (If you want love) If you want faith, you just believe a little (If you want love) If you want peace, turn your cheek a little The problem with not ...


March 09, 2015

Once Bitten Twice Shy

My, my, my. Not Bobbie Brown from the video, but could be her daughter. Nikki Leigh. Spring forward happened without a hiccup. Initially. I set all my clock ahead before going to bed. Of co...


March 02, 2015

Become

There’s so much more about you that you never let them see You turn away But not to me And I know how they tried to take you Held you up and meant to break you down But you can’t be One of the ...


February 26, 2015

Throw it All Away

Take the story you’ve been sold The lies that justify the pain The guilt that weighs upon your soul And throw ‘em all away I glanced at my phone - the Android Maxx. The time was 1:11 and the te...


February 25, 2015

My Name...

My name is not my own, It is borrowed from my ancestors, I must return it unstained. My honor is not my own, It is on loan from my descendants, I must give it to them unbroken. Our blood is not o...


I am watching the lead-up to the Oscars. Basically wasting time until TWD comes on. I am shaking my head. The ridiculous way a bunch of marginally entertaining movies are pumped up until I almos...


February 20, 2015

Sweet Child o' Mine

Erin Everly at 1+25 in this video I why I obsessively watched this video back in the pre-YouTube days when we actually had to wait for a video to come on MTV or VH1. Such a pretty baby. The hai...


February 16, 2015

Dave Barry's Take on FSoG

So I read Fifty Shades of Grey. This is the book written by female British author “E. L. James” that became a huge bestseller, devoured by pretty much every woman on Earth except my wife (or so s...


February 16, 2015

Wildfire

The storm turned out to be nothing for us here in this part of coastal Maine. It scooted right out to sea before getting close. So instead of 2 feet of snow we got maybe 2 inches. Even the th...


February 14, 2015

California Sun

I could use a little of that California sun right about now. The sky has been leaden and foreboding since just after noon. The blizzard hasn’t started here yet, but it is marching this way. T...


February 14, 2015

Feeling Satisfied

My appreciation of Sib Hashian as a drummer is growing as I age. This randomed up on Evel today and I found myself listening to the drums more than anything. He doesn’t double down at first li...


February 13, 2015

F-14 Tomcat vs MiG-23 Dogfight

Most of the radio comms from the tomcats was my last Admiral - Admiral M - a Lieutenant at the time. I have a great amount of respect for him because as PEO-T (Program Executive Office - Tacair...


February 13, 2015

Fifty Shades of Grey

I don’t get it. Women are all “Men don’t respect us, don’t appreciate our power or our intellect blah blah blah sexism blah blah!” Then they immediately get hot about a story about an overtly a...


February 12, 2015

Here

” All that’s left to write I love you more than light and dark And distant stars If all the streams dried up I’d just drink you up” - Vertical Horizon, “Here” I’ll never hear that line of that s...


February 09, 2015

And Winter Drones On!

Just watched the last episode of Criminal Minds They are going to bring Dylan Einstein back. I don’t see how they can’t. Finished med school at 19? Flirts with everybody. She is an irresisti...


February 07, 2015

Crush

My DVR is filling up with stuff I am not interested in watching. I am chatting on facebook and on my droid. Thinking about ordering a pizza I really don’t need. Wondering when I am going to ...


February 06, 2015

The World I Know

So I walk up on high And I step to the edge To see my world below. And I laugh at myself While the tears roll down. ‘Cause it’s the world I know. It’s the world I know. -Collective Soul, “The W...


February 05, 2015

No Se Si Es Amor

Because I know the English version of the song I can actually follow this one in Spanish I always hear “Yo no lo se” as “I don’t know.” I don’t know the nuance. Three port calls in Spain and th...


February 04, 2015

If You Could Read My Mind

“If I could read your mind, love What a tale your thoughts could tell Just like a paperback novel The kind the drugstores sell When you reach the part where the heartaches come The hero would be...


February 04, 2015

Moron

I am insulted as an American to have this coward as my president.


February 04, 2015

Some Day One Day

After a day of snow it seems too bright out there. New snow reflects light. I was a kid when I first heard the term “snow blind.” On days like this it is easy to believe you could burn out yo...


February 03, 2015

Killer Queen

She keeps Moët et Chandon In her pretty cabinet ‘Let them eat cake,’ she says Just like Marie Antoinette A built-in remedy For Kruschev and Kennedy At anytime an invitation You can’t decline -Q...


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The random and sundry. The sacred and profane. The pleasure and the pain.

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