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I have this uncle. He’s like 80 or thereabouts, I don’t know exactly. I haven't talked to him in years. For one thing, there was some questionable stuff surrounding his interest in underage
girls (including family members), and for another thing there was something shady about his overseas finances that was never
explained. He is definitely, without a doubt, 100% a liar, and not a very convincing one at that. My Lord, the stupid lies w…
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brother. On August 3rd Stephen Miller's wife actually said of Dr. Fauci "Every man who has a journal is narcissistic." Keeping a journal is narcissistic now? And is that only for men? What an incredibly dumb thing to say. Tell me you don’t know any writers without telling me
you don’t know any writers. These people do my head in, Jesus.🙄
So, you guys know I have my blog cross-posted on various platforms. Well, I also considered posting on Substack. Then, as I do, I read the Substack Privacy Policy . After which I rejected Substack with a quickness. The Substack Privacy Policy is essentially "there is no Privacy here." It's even worse than the Google Privacy Policy update they published on May 26 of this year --the update that sent me running back to Diaryland to writ…
You guys, I'm having a vision problem at the moment. I have to step away from blogging because I can't see the fucking screen. Doc says it will resolve on its own and that there's nothing to worry about ...
Whether you're an old school blogger or you've caught wind of the rumor (it's true) that personal blogging is making a comeback, you should know about Diaryland ( diaryland.com ). Diaryland is one of the OG online diary platforms, launched in 1999 by Canadian developer Andrew Smales. For those of us who started out on Diaryland way back when "blog" was years away from becoming a household word, we writers poured our hearts &#…
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one of my mom's albums that was woven into the fabric of my childhood. A
lifetime favorite, not a clunker on it. Marlena is amazing. When I was
little I memorized "Yu Ma/Go Away Little Boy", which is a song that
starts with a long compelling narrative (Yu Ma) that blends into a song
(Go Away Little Boy). This is a send-up of a Nancy Wilson song, barely
resembling the original, peppered as it is with Marlena's sign…
It's a beautiful day in Boston, and a good day for this excerpt from my blog essay "Yes, I UnFriended You 'Over Politics." Have a blessed day, Friends. -------------------------------- NOT MY PEOPLE Here's who I simply don't care to know. Greedy people. Mean people. Nasty people. Manipulative people. Selfish people. Hurtful people. Small-minded people. Cheaters. Liars. Thieves. Bullies. Pretenders. Gaslighters. People who …
Look, everyone is free to do as they like. But when
I was a little kid, my aunt Sharon summed up a *certain woman on TV in one
simple word, and I never forgot it. “She’s over-processed.” I knew
exactly what she meant, somehow. That’s what I think of whenever I see
one of these MAGA women, especially when they’re putting
down beautiful women of color. Because "over-processed" is not judging or saying anything pejorative about
thei…
That's a lot of peanut butter wasted unnecessarily, in my opinion. Could have "honored" the dead artist, Wim T. Schippers, another way. Like an installation of big blown-up photos of the first TWO times he covered the floor in peanut butter (1967 and 1997) and a free jar of peanut butter to families visiting the museum. Did this really need to happen? More than 800 pounds of peanut butter — enough for around 15,000 sandwiches — has…
I woke up today and listened to Roll the Bones (Rush). Man that's Neal Peart (RIP) at his finest, both lyrically and technically. I love the drums on the whole album. Mostly acoustic drums, a departure for Neal, and his hits and fills are exquisite. The lyrics explore the role of "chance" in our lives. Speaking of chance. I don't specifically remember the first Rush I ever heard, but I know it was high school, in Hub's beat …
Isn’t this beautiful? There happen to be some nails already in the walls
of the new place, so I hung this piece on one of them. I love it. It
looks like a painting, but it’s a stylized photograph, printed onto
canvas. Joe bought it for me from our friend Bill years ago. Bill hung
out on this corner for awhile until he got the perfect shot. It was
chilly. I think everyone in Boston will recognize what part of town this
is...your thoughts?😋
“So
many of my friends post about how they feel about the present economy. I
wonder how they would feel if, in the future, they were one of the
fortunate ones who was earning a lot more money. Would you still be
angry with them for having more than you? Would you still think they
should pay more than they are now? Would you still think your money
should support those who don’t have, because they aren’t ambitious as
you?” (August 24th, 201…
Part
of me wants to Friend every person in New England with a variant of my
last name. For all I know, we're related. Does anyone in the family know
how to spell our last name? Because it looks like we're all just
winging it. At least we're all capitalizing the P, I guess.👈
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Good morning. Last night I ate a really delicious pear. I woke up thinking about it. I found a digital (iPad) drawing of a pear I did from 2017. This is not my only drawing of a pear. Pears are important, dude. Get yourself a pear today.🍐
Happy Father's Day to all the cool dads out there. It's been such an honor to watch your kids grow up through pictures and posts. Good job, guys. On this day I like to share this 2012 blog entry titled "Any Other Sunday: On Fathers."
You guys, I found the prettiest desk chair on Facebook Marketplace. It was a 3-minute Uber ride away. We picked it up last night. It's perfect, I love it so much.🥰 The only problem with having been hunting for a new chair online is the dreaded avalanche of ads for chairs I'm getting and will get until the end of time. I'm telling you, retargeting has to be the dumbest martech (marketing technology) they ever came up with, and I am ov…
...I embrace new tech. It's just that I can sniff out the SHADY or SOON TO BE OBSOLETE new tech. My whole career was in cutting edge tech. Shit, I worked for Wellfleet/Bay Networks/Nortel--we were one of three that helped construct the cloud. I worked for Trip Advisor back when we were writing blurbs about the landmark attractions and seeding the website with user reviews, ya know, just to get it rolling. I helped start EditShare when it was…
Joe just came into the bedroom where I was sitting in front of my laptop. He said “What’s wrong?” Nuthin’. Just watched Stevie Wonder play at Obama’s Presidential Center opening. I just love the Obama family. And Stevie killed it! I love him so much. I ugly cried. Then Joe moved some furniture around in the bedroom so that my desk is in front of the window. It was one of the projects on the list. We live at the top of a big hill now, and out th…
Funny story. When I was in maybe 7th grade I was a member of Rick Springfield’s fan club. I got a letter “from Rick.” The penmanship of the letter was so cool that I spent actual time studying it, and it became “my” writing forever after that. I don’t know, I just liked the way the e and a looked. That was a long time ago. Rick looks great, though! 76. There's some debate about whether or not he had more work done than the facelift (at 24?!)…
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