I've been thinking this one over and while I may have missed a few of them I have not seen this particular perspective.  The idea of asking a bully why they treated people the way they did is in many cases just one person asking another why they made fun, insulted,… Read full post »

The Boomer generation was reaching adulthood by the early sixties.  We drank Pepsi, we carried our transistor radios and we drove our old cars to the beach in order to attempt surfing.  Okay a whole lot of us carried surf boards to the beach to intrigue the beach bunnies.  

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The bad thing about doing this shit in the Summer was the heat.  Sure it was going on evening and the sun was sinking in an orange red, glowing, ball of fire but inside the tin building it would be blistering.  The heat also gave rise to another factor, the stench.… Read full post »

I sleep at odd times and odd hours.  I often find myself awake in the early morning and unable to keep my eyes open at noon.  I've had some setbacks here lately too.  Not so much that I have writers block, I just end up  on here when the very fewest… Read full post »

I sleep at odd times and odd hours.  I often find myself awake in the early morning and unable to keep my eyes open at noon.  I've had some setbacks here lately too.  Not so much that I have writers block, I just end up  on here when the very fewest… Read full post »

Anyone who lives in an ancient "fixer upper" knows that parts of your home will decide at the most inopportune times to crumble to dust or require major repairs.  Our drooping, saggy old house decided that it no longer wished to support human bodily functions and bathing last week.

When we… Read full post »

Crisp

tangy

tart

to many make you fart

the vinegar though is good for the heart

garlic

brine

divine  Read full post »

Enough morbidity, on with the show....

In the seventies a sound grew up out on the desert between L.A. and Tuscon.  It was different from the mainstream rock and was barely commercial enough to get made.  They called it Country or Southwest Rock but it was a strange co-opting of… Read full post »

Well, most of you know that my life has been in a state of turmoil over health issues.  I know too that there are some on O/S that want to know what those problems are.  After about six weeks of nearly constant and unpleasant testing, I finally got some firm answers… Read full post »

What the fuck?  I hear it all day long, I see it on TV, I read about it online and still the stupidity astounds me.  Here's a fucking lesson for you damned benighted sons of whores.  The economy was a disaster a full fucking year before Obama took office yet on… Read full post »

Ten years ago, I was about to switch on a television and witness the shocking day begin.  Nearly three thousand dead, mudered in the name of someone's god.  Nothing will ever bring even one of them back.  No one who was a witness will ever feel things return to the way… Read full post »

Most mornings I would just get up, make coffee, and switch on the computer to read the news.  I still got an occasional newspaper back then but it was easier for me to just go online and read it there.  For some reason, this morning I turned on the television and… Read full post »

I saw Barack Obama speak at the 2004 Democratic Convention and announced that I thought that he would be the next president.  Good call for one who is not so politically astute as many others.  I nearly killed myself just to see him speak in Springfield Illinois when he had just… Read full post »

I spent a lot of time walking in the seventies.  Going places just to be going.  Watching as the rest of the world rolled by in cars and trucks and on motorcycles.  Mostly in DuQuoin although I did thumb from town to town and watch things happen there too.

I spent… Read full post »

Neil Diamond once referred to this time of year as Hot August Nights.  I've long wondered if he had been to Southern Illinois at some point and remembered it.  Well, a little snippet of the coming Autumn popped up and allowed me to feel safe attending something on the 26th… Read full post »

In Illinois there is a different situation regarding state fairs.  Unlike most other states we have two.  One, the one in Springfield, was the official one and down here in Southern Illinois we had our own.  The Duquoin State Fair was started by W.R. Hayes, local Coca Cola bottler sinc… Read full post »

Today was a pretty bad day for rock and roll and for soul.  Jerry Lieber passed away and so has Nicloas Ashford.  We know Lieber from his work with longtime partner Mike Stoller.  Together they penned words and music that changed the face of music like no other writing team short… Read full post »

They keep telling me that I need to concentrate on my health.  They don't seem to have any answers for the fact that no one else in the world gives a shit about it.  No, I don't mean family or friends, I mean the bastards that run all of the other… Read full post »

Small joys outnumber the big ones in number and exceed most all others in joy delivered by volume.  To many small joys exisit for me and I have no idea how to quantify them by value.  So, I suppose I will list a few here and hope that I can make… Read full post »

Collins waited as his cruiser mounted laptop did a bit of Google on the cases that were similar.  He ran the few names associated with those similar crimes and found that there were about ten that matched the M.O. of the killer of the victim who was now lying in wait… Read full post »

There is something about late August.  Maybe it is ingrained in us since this time of year was the first for many of us to be remembered as a time of life changes.  When we were children it was the time of the new school year.  As we got older it… Read full post »

strobing

under the moon

grinding my mind into dust

rust

red and dark and grainy

trust that light comes

or goes away

shine

all the time

path of darkness guides

stillness waits

congregates

in the blinding light of

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