The Wright Sight created an Open Call in which he asked for bloggers to list five things they would include in a Time Capsule that would represent them. Well, I don’t think I would ever build such a container, but I know one thing for certain, I will die eventually.… Read full post »

This is a combo answer to Boreville Leadencockers’s and Cindy Ross’s Open Call. With a bonus Labor Day Weekend mention. Because that’s just the way I roll. 

 

 

It was a dark and stormy night as Jimmy drove his brand new Dodge Charger through the barf, blood, mud-soak… Read full post »

 

 

This past week, I vacationed on Marco Island, Florida. To those unfamiliar with Marco Island, it is an island city on the Gulf Coast of Florida that caters mostly to people on vacation and retirees. We rented a house using HomeAway. I strongly recommend this website to anyone wishing to/… Read full post »

According to researchers at the University of Arizona’s Sarver Heart Center, more Americans die from a cardiac arrest in a 72 hour period “…than the number who died from the 9/11 attacks.” The sad part is that most of these heart attack victims could have lived if the people/… Read full post »

Nowadays, it seems that everyone is into statistics and number-crunching or metrics to use the parlance of the Internet. Google dedicates whole pages to analytics, trends and a whole bunch of other statistical reporting. I'm sure Bing and Yahoo! don't fall behind. All these numbers and tren… Read full post »

 

That's me sitting on the old stoop of the apartment
building I once called home. Photo by Trudge164 © 2008

 

 

 

Growing up in Astoria, Queens, New York City, in the ‘70s, we played a lot of  two-hand touch football, stickball, Ace-King-Queen (a derivative/… Read full post »

Last Saturday, I posted “I Desire Some Things for You”. It was a tribute to Max Ehrmann’s prose poem “Desiderata”. In my post, I added a video of an animation of Mr. Ehrmann reading his famous poem.

 

In the post, I mentioned that I once heard Vincent Price recite t/… Read full post »

“One large roast of beef, one small roast of beef

Take the two roasts and put them in the oven.

When the little one burns, the big one is done.”

                      … Read full post »

In 1927, Max Ehrmann, an Indiana attorney and businessman, published "Desiderata" a prose poem. Eighty-three years later the advice given in his poem is still very sound. So please listen, heed and "go placidly" ...

The aftermath!

That was some party!

Look! There's still some cake left.

 

 

Last night, Robin Sneed blogged a most alarming post:  Suicidal

I did not discover it until this morning, and I was quite shocked by it;  I know some of you were disturbed by it too.  

I contacted her via OS's PM system and I am happy to say that Robin… Read full post »

Behold the Kiwi,
A curiously, mysterious fruit.
Its drab olive outside
Belies its vibrant inside.

If this were the roaring twenties,
The Kiwi would be a popular speakeasy: A
Non-descript dull exterior
With a wickedly wonderful interior.

This curious fruit does not need
A sly snake to promote it.
It is… Read full post »

This Father’s Day instead of getting all dewy-eyed and sentimental reminiscing about dear old dad, or getting the ole hate-hammer out and bashing dad (for whatever real or imagined misdeeds he bestowed upon us) I decided to celebrate Dads past, present and future by giving them (myself included… Read full post »

Oh, Hell! It’s just hail.

 

 

This evening around 6:00 p.m. we started to get a typical South Florida deluge. I just got home from work and picking up Little Trudgette (my daughter) and I was settling down for the evening.

 

When, around 6:15 p.m., I heard a seriously… Read full post »

My life in three sentences:

Excelsior!* "He was just one of those guys with that weird light around him. He just knew he wasn't gonna get so much as a scratch here." --Willard (Martin Sheen) talking about Kilgore (Robert Duvall)

*Excelsior is Latin for ever upward or casually translated as upwar… Read full post »

 

Every now and then (more now than then) there is a major dust-up on Open Salon and after some mean spirited posts and comments everybody comes to their senses and starts apologizing.

 

I avoid dust ups for the most part. So I’m refusing to apologize because

 … Read full post »

 

From behind the counter, she asked me if I wanted a sample. It took me five seconds to realize she meant the pocket sandwich she had just baked. I took the bite-sized morsel of sourdough bread stuffed with ham and provolone cheese. As I chewed it, I looked her over… Read full post »

 

 

  I usually avoid the low-hanging fruit i.e.: Open Calls, the latest dust-up, the lastest celebrity gossip, someone's take on the latest breaking news, and writing to please the Pow-wahs dat bee. However, every now and then I like to jump into the muck and get my Dockers dirty, but,/…

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 This is the Free Press 3000 typewriter. It has very sharp thumb tacks for keys. It was designed for those who have what it takes to be a writer.
Wanna take it out for a spin?

 

 

Are you tough enough to express yourself? To write what you think?… Read full post »

Won't you read my art? Won't read my art? Won't you read my, read my art?

Bastardized from a song by The Police (can you name that tune?) 

 

 

I just read Algis Kemezys' “Fortune Telling with Your Art” post and I must say I was quite impressed. I saw his reading/… Read full post »

I write because that's what writers do. Otherwise, we'd be called masons, accountants, dishwashers.

I write because it gives me pleasure and it causes me pain.

I write because I need to get it out and this is my way of doing it. It beats "going postal" at the office,… Read full post »

Does it dry up

Like a raisin in the sun?

 

Or fester like a sore--

And then run?

 

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over--

like a syrupy sweet?

 

Maybe it just sags

like a heavy load.

 

Or does it explode?

- Langston… Read full post »

 

The closing ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada will be taking place tonight.  While everyone has been spellbound by the athletic exploits of the Olympians, The Biggest Loser show has taken a three-week hiatus. Obviously, all of Season 9’s episodes were in-t… Read full post »

  

 

 

Just in case you forgot, are trying to forget, wishing you weren’t reminded, or totally forgot about it like most of the stuff you read about on Open Salon, two weeks ago I wrote a post welcoming all Spambots to comment (hawk their wares) on my posts so… Read full post »

 

The stakes are high this week as the remaining contestants travel to the state with the city in the sky.

 

First the good part: the contestants got to train at the Olympics Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They met with Allison Jones a Paralympics athlete who competes in/… Read full post »