Hi Mom,

This is something that I have to say while I can.  You are my hero, my friend, my rock in this world.  You always have been and always will be.  What ever I've learned about life is what I've gotten from you.  You taught me how to accept,… Read full post »

 I know I'm an infrequent poster these days and while I see many familiar names I don't know if any remember me.  That's cool, I can dig it.If you want to be well known you  have to play the game.  So what fame around here I used to have is gone.… Read full post »

My mom is a hero, she made it through a hard life, a big family, and number of disasters with her smile intact and her love for us all unimpacted.   She came from little, she married young and had six children.

We were all of us beholden to her… Read full post »

I hate getting old, my heroes evaporate like so much mist on the breeze.  We lost Jonathan Winters today.  Okay, he WAS 87 years old so it isn't like it was early, it is just that I have to accept the end of my own life as an eventuality as the… Read full post »

Thick smoke and pulsing strobes combined with the thudding electronic beat of dance music wipe out any chance of comfort.  Combined with the hazy blue glow of a black light that highlights the tiny flourescent fibers in her costume.

Her steps timed to the beat she struts, in dangerously high pla… Read full post »

I was born in an age of giants.  Well, at least to us and in that time we saw them as giants.  Guitar hero is a term now mostly applied to a video game where people pretend to be those guitar gods of yore.  Men like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Rick… Read full post »

I suppose I'm famous for my whining and self pity so this shouldn't surprise or offend too many of you.  I am a failure.  I admit it, a complete and total waste of humanity.  I have never prospered or done anything significant in my whole useless life.  How do I know… Read full post »

Contrary to popla belief

I have the scoop folks, the big secret is...................Obama makes Trump horny!

In the ever tighter race for the White House I see many comments and posts on various blogs an websites asking or accusing the president of everything from socialism to treason.  I just don't get it.  If conservatives find that being wrong about  the intelligence from Libya leading to… Read full post »

I came to Open Salon four years ago.  Since then I've written literally hundreds of thousands of words, from the sublime to the ridiculous.  For the past several months, the site has become slow to load, full of errors and often just plain too frustrating to use.

The early days were… Read full post »

I

live in fear

silence

shames me

festering wounds of childhood

rip through my psyche

Rubberized

Vulcanized 

Lionized

Gripped by pain

Shamed by name

Lost again  Read full post »

From where I sit it gets harder every day to see the difference between what our country is doing and those of the Middle East.  How would Christans react to a film that portrayed Christ as a pedophile and liar?  Would they organize and kill?  Would they vow revenge?  Would they… Read full post »

One of the great things about the blogging world is its universal access. That means that each and every ill tempered, cranky, obnoxious, bigoted, know it all can spread lies, disinformation and general bullshit with all the authority of an expert. Even on subjects that they… Read full post »

When you have kids you have literally millions of cherished memories.  When those kids grow up they sometimes find a way to weasel into your mind when you least expect it.  They can range from joy to despair in nature and many of them still have the power to overtake our… Read full post »

Wow, the RNC is just a total love fest for the American way of life isn't it?  The 2012 election has devolved into a sad and sickening joke that isn't even funny.  Why tell lies so blatant that a sympathetic reporter can't even ignore?  Paul Ryan is a nasty, spoiled, ill… Read full post »

We all face the problem at one point or another, the never ending sameness of the days and nights.  The details may change but always the problems remain.  This is the human condition isn't it?  That ultimately, we face the same problems as  long as we breathe.

Take drinking for e… Read full post »

Some one here on Open Salon seems to be offended by what I write about.  Well, I am sorry about that.  The thing is, just like that persons blog, this one is mine and I don't have to be concerned about the opinion of anyone when it comes to the subjects… Read full post »

Horseshit, a strong and obscene term yet it so accurately describes the main course of most everyones's daily life.  We are fed a diet of it from the cradle to the grave and yet so many of us not only swallow it with relish, we seem to be obsessed with making… Read full post »

I've been playing hooky here for a while since between fighting and health and just a general malaise brought on by dessicating, dry heat and laziness in my age I have not been, shall we say, productive. 

I  had a new experience in the field of diagnostic tests and I was… Read full post »

First off, I am fond of Fusun Atalay, despite the furor over her comment and the following dust up that paints this thing as all one way or the other.  She has never written a word to me that smacked of racism or anti-Semitism.  I feel, and this is my own… Read full post »