Marvin Gaye was shot dead by his father during a family argument. It was April 1, 1984, one day before his 45th birthday. I was 14. My brother was 10 and played a lot of sports. I remember that because on that day, he had an accident on the field and my parents took him to the hospital. They sat in the waiting room. There were two elderly black gentlemen sitting across from them. My mom heard one of them say to the other, "You know, we lost …
I only learned
yesterday during the wildly successful No Kings protest that one of the latest Trumper talking points is that Liberals
are…ugly? lol. That they would even try this stance is both hilarious
and pathetic. As if the millions of normal caring “ordinary” citizens protesting this
ridiculous administration aren’t proof enough that this claim is patently
false, all it takes is looking at the lion’s share of Hollywood—movie
and TV s…
Jaws is my favorite movie, but to be frank, I hated the book. I don't like Peter Benchley's writing at all, may he rest in peace. The book portrays Ellen Brody as snotty and stuck-up, hating being "just" a cop's wife. In the book Ellen is from a wealthy 'summer" family like the kid who was with Chrissie, and meets Brody on Amity when she's young. She's written as a slut, and Quint knows her reputation on the…
This
is my ideal English Muffin. I call this "toasted." Joe calls it burnt! He
doesn’t toast them—he likes them just lightly heated up. Before Joe, a
lifetime ago, I lived with Hub—he also liked them just heated up! I could never get a properly toasted English Muffin outta either one of them guys! Now I just make my own. I
think a witch cursed me when I was born to only love men who were
hostile to nooks and crannies toasted golden…
This is throwing back to Mother's Day 2012, to the days when I used to occasionally do a video accompaniment to my blog entries, which I dubbed BLOGCASTS . This was in honor of my mom. I figure it's perfect for Women's History Month. It's called "What am I, an
a**hole?" and other Mom'isms." It's about some expressions that my mom,
all of seventeen when she had me, used to say. She is quite eloquent, and qu…
I have a Pandora station I listen to a lot while I'm writing or working on my blogs. So many times I've dug a tune that comes up only to find it's DJ Shadow. This morning it happened again, and I finally said to myself "I think I love DJ Shadow." I found some his albums on YouTube. Great stuff. I'll have to buy some DJ Shadow.👍
These days if you Google for "hamster dance," all kinds of results come up, but you have to dig deep and know to search for THE Hampster Dance (deliberately misspelled by the creator). Created before Google. On a Geocities site. And completely, totally useless. In fact its gone, but some intrepid soul has recreated the Hampster Dance, much to the delight of, I suspect, mostly Gen X. You can find this recreated wonder at https://origina…
Google, why hast thou forsaken us? So it's pretty well known that Google has not been devoting that much dev time to Blogger in recent years. Oh, there's been some background stuff going on, like a new back-up system last summer. And about three months ago they did some Beta testing with new Google Search tools. With varying degrees of success. The first one was totally cringe, and if I had been one of the designated Beta testers I'd h…
I just posted this on Facebook: Hi guys. I just now created a FACEBOOK PAGE for my blog , Diary of a Low Budget Superhero. It would mean a lot to me if you would Follow, and even more if you would Share it. I keep almost leaving Facebook, especially after they torpedoed my original account that I'd had since 2008, and because of the AI, bots, and algorithms ruining things. But whenever I'm off FB, like the break I took Oct - Feb, I miss you …
So. We think we might have found a place, but it's been like almost two weeks and no word back about our application. I don't know what that means. The realtor, Angel, keeps telling me he'll "check with them." BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? Dyin' here. But the hunt has been entertaining at times. I wish I'd taken a screen shot of that Arlington house with the awesome floors. They were a different pattern in every room, and…
So you know my last post, about latchkey kids ? I made the mistake of posting it to the Gen X subreddit, with a link back to the blog, without getting permission to do so. I shouldn't have done that, but apparently this is an offense so egregious as to permanently ban me from the subreddit! I was stunned. I replied to the MOD, and they get to hide behind anonymity mind you, that I didn't realize I was in violation of the rules? I tried to…
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