Ah yes, the current state of affairs, an astonishingly vast subject endlessly explored, dissected and sometimes explained by multitudes of purported experts, gurus, philosophers and influencers, whoever/whatever the fuck they are, with either broad-brushed or overly-anal dissertations and analyses, some of which make some sense, some little sense, some no sense at all, and often […]
I want to go on tour. No comedy or concert tour as I don’t care for people staring at me, I never tell jokes and my guitar playing and singing warrant only ridicule. No travel tour either since I’m a terrible tourist…if I’m away for more than 10 days I invariably get crazed and want […]
Credit to Warren Zevon for embedding this poignant line and visual into my youthful psyche back in ’76, and over the years it has intermittently thrust itself to the forefront of my brain, albeit never with the same exact meaning or impact. The only consistency is its tone of resignation…when all other avenues of dealing […]
Fifty years ago today I sauntered to the bus stop encased in a beige wool tweed suit, brown shirt and paisley tie, carrying my embossed vinyl briefcase devoid of contents except for pen and pad, furiously mopping my forehead with a paper towel as my hair immediately began sticking to the back of my neck, […]
I’ve been safely ensconced in my aptly named home office for almost 2 years now. Formerly my son’s bedroom, it’s a great place to hang out…freshly painted and carpeted, huge custom desk perfectly matched and integrated with the remaining pieces of his childhood bedroom set, 32 inch high-def TV I hardly watch, a pair of […]
Funny thing about interludes…you never know what they’re going to look like or how long they’ll last. And you don’t necessarily know what brings them on and sometimes don’t realize you’re experiencing one till it’s over. But you always feel different, know things aren’t like they used to be and will never be that way […]
Generalizations are a lazy way to convey, explain and rationalize things and often give way once enough bullet holes are shot through them. And these days there are many “experts”, “talking heads” and others vying for attention by racing to coin a phrase or some “concept” and try to define/differentiate/validate it, yielding many “interesting” phrases […]
Ain’t so easy. As we go through life we get more set in our ways and sometimes those ways ain’t so good but you can’t turn back the clock…whatever is in us is in us, entrenched and hanging on for dear life. Those ways often serve as shields to justify continuing with the same thinking […]
A couple of weeks ago I dreamt about tires. Car tires. Specifically the tires on my car. Not that my car is a dream car and even if so, I’ve never had fantasies about any particular kind of tire since they all basically look alike and do the same things albeit some do these things […]
I’ve been a desk jockey my entire professional career. And somewhere in close proximity to every one of those desks has been a chair in which for the bulk of my waking working existence my ass has been situated. Not necessarily the requisite 40 hours or so per week a real professional is expected to […]