A very shrugging case of  “some good news.”  After only one session with a  "mental health professional" by the name, Sabrina Di Biagio -- Melissa Balin, a very sane Mensa member, has been restored to competency. She thereby is "competent to stand trial.”&n… Read full post »

  Sometimes you find sad and strange connections. You find others who understand a destiny or a fate,(or is it just some really shitty luck?)that forces you to feel isolated, in your state of distress. You yearn for a unforeseeable day, when those other isolated voices rise from the abyss (… Read full post »

I’ve been advised by friends and family to not focus on social media, at all.  I’m averse to facebook and twitter so it’s only been a mess of a blogger blog and open salon . Now, there is our salon too. The collapse of Open Salon and the birth of Our  Salon has/… Read full post »

 About two years ago I wrote this post. open.salon.com/blog/fernsy/2011/12/03/nazis_redux

The formatting is really getting messed up for some reason.  Please, excuse and please read that post again or for the first time.  Since posting that post, I have been screwed ov… Read full post »

I'm real fed up of seeing the good guys lose so I waited all day to watch the debates.

I was sure Obama would kick the spazzy ass of a man who dismissed forty seven percent of our people. Jews and gays comprise a lot less than ten percent of the population and… Read full post »

Truly would hate to spread a false rumor about a non existent  gay Mormon aunt.  I Won't bother to go into her yearning ways and how hard it was for her to get excommunicated for a love that won't dare speak its name.  Won't describe her fiery Latina lover and their othe… Read full post »

If feels like a unique experience: To stop a literary hoax before it starts. As my saga now develops a new twist, I must now try to out a con artist who is dead set on comitting further cons.

I know there have been other liars turned authors but I can't remember… Read full post »

Seems like only yesterday there was a SPAM uprising. That didn't work. The spammers went underground and re-emerged with sophisticated super duper captcha fighting softwares.

Now, we are faced with the error terror of 2012. Last I heard from my sources in nearby Malau, the Palau error handlers lost t… Read full post »

I have 7 new PM's.  I can't access them due to some new OS glitch.

 They may be from Marian Mabou.  They most probably are from  Marian Mabou . She will insincerely call me "dear." She's a piece of work. Talks about love and money orders too much. I  marvel that… Read full post »

In my last post there was some unintended but implicit suggestion that cancer is some punishment for sin. Or, that any bad thing that might befall someone is due to their bad acts. I do not believe this. I have known many great people who have suffered all sorts of catastrophes. My father… Read full post »

I saw the best minds of my generation in chat rooms with the worst minds of my generation destroyed by bad Yelp reviews and a troll on Angies list after failed ebay auction bids dragging themselves through google adwords looking for SEO optimization while stirring to Katy Perry on Itunes.Fishing… Read full post »

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Wanted to do the sibling rivalry open call but realized only that my sibling has no rival  . A  gushing piece about how close we are wouldn't be of much interest.

I have not been very lucky, in many respects, but when it came to the sibling and mother lottery-- I… Read full post »

I filled out a profile as a part of my quest to find everlasting love.  I finally  made the effort to seek a man(or a manly woman, holla!) to earn  couplehood status. Never again would aunt Miriam get to feel so damned superior!

I scoured my soul for just the right… Read full post »

I saw the best minds of my generation in chat rooms with the worst minds of my generation  destroyed by bad Yelp reviews and a troll on Angies list

after failed ebay auction bids dragging themselves through google adwords looking for SEO optimization while stirring to Kelly Clarkson on Itun… Read full post »

I have this "stat counter" thing installed on my computer and daily it confounds me. Some old posts are just getting hits from the strangest places. I won't even go into detail cause my story has and will just sound crazy until there is a trial . When all the now… Read full post »

Since I saw stray posts about OS being a goner, I've felt ...lousy...er.

Then, of course, the post about how we are all hysteric sheep who stink.

Then, the stray comments or posts expressing disgust at all that is meta and even accusing the poster of the meta of unsavory manipulation.… Read full post »

Been missing the OS community but just have had to be offline 24/7.

My life has become something for bad movies and ... that's about it for now.... ahem!

This morning I  was able to log on for the first time in a straight week.

Saw that some Spam fighting insurgence… Read full post »

Hey Hey

It’s the fifth of May!

Not just any regular old day

 in … May.

Sirs  or Senors, Ladies or Senoritas,

it’s time to buy the mix.

To fix,

 some mean mean Margaritas.

“Festive day today,”

  added to my bio

You’d have to be… Read full post »

I sniff a new editor. Therefore, I sniff my first and only chance at an Editors Pick before my Birthday. Out of the corner of my gimlet eye, I see this on the Open Salon cover page.

Open Call

Awesome stories for new OS editor

But, with different fancy formatting that I… Read full post »

Recent events in my own life have made me feel as if I’ve long left the sphere, I’m forced to call, “ Normalcy.”

The events of the last four years, in my own existence, have been so far out, so outrageous, so so so… so… Profoundly out of step with what… Read full post »

My longtime OS buddy, Matt Paust, had gone and written a book about guns, was my impression. After flipping through the book before settling in with it, I saw too that there were essays about sports. Football, to be more exact. More closer inspection made me see that there was so much… Read full post »

In the midst of a legal odyssey both  odious and ominous, I found myself getting a chance to shake my head admiringly, and also to attain the sweet relief of laughter. This desperately needed  respite came as a gift from Open Salon's very own, Cranky Cuss. I have spoken to Cranky… Read full post »

My mother strikes me as a miracle. Otherwordly, I guess. A survivor in the truest sense.  Today is her birthday, and I feel close enough to enough people on OS to want to celebrate her here.

She has never been cruel to me or anyone. She has never not been there for… Read full post »

Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas  

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do… Read full post »