Disco's uncontested queen Donna Summer has passed away after a battle with cancer in her Florida home TMZ reports.  She had a string of Disco hits that were for me at least the most creative and well performed of them all.

She was born La Donna Adriane Gaines on January first… Read full post »

Passing through the world is the basis of all lives lived. We travel our own paths as we go. We cross the paths of others as well as our own. As I begin to explore the details of my life I find that I often… Read full post »

Well the President finally jumps on the equality bandwagon and suddenly all the loonies are finding a reason to speak.  Let's take Romney's little admission on Fox Radio first.

Yesterday, after the President came out, so to speak, for marriage equality, good ol' Willard admitted that he was "int… Read full post »

Hi, you don't know me but I am a regular guy from the outback of the midwestern U.S..  I see that you have pulled off a pretty neat trick, you looked at laws designed to keep a single man from becoming king of Russia and hand picked your successor then after… Read full post »

The anniversary of the National Guard murders at Kent State University brings some strong emotions to mind.  Anti-war protests were not just there in Ohio, they were all across the country and in some cases the world.  42 years ago today the conflict between the young people facing that war… Read full post »

 THE USE OF FALSE NAMES/AVATARS/PEN NAMES ETC. ARE NOT WHAT THIS IS ABOUT.  

After nearly four years I am ready to pull the plug on this.  I thought that honesty was something that was important yet I find that only a thin few of the… Read full post »

So many place and things left unseen or un done.  It is really a little sad.  We speak to others in our cloaks of deception and we hope that we are loved yet who can love someone that they do not know?

I just can't seem to keep it together anymore.… Read full post »

chopped and sliced

waiting

'til dark falls

and

freedom for the true evil rises 

pithy entrails

roast slowly

as I wait for the soup to be done

soup fills a need

my belly

my mind reels

Am I death?

Am I death? 

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The prospect of losing everything.  Would any politician have a remote clue what that is like.  Don't hand me that bankrupt shit either, bankruptcy at least allows for a place to live.  No they don't have a clue about the real world.  Many of the… Read full post »

We live in a plastic world

All false and unreal

Plastic

unnatural

universal crumpets

plastic trumpets

strumpets walk  Read full post »

keeps logging me out without saving my goddam work.  can we fix this shit PLEASE???????????????????? Read full post »

Yesterday morning, after a few years catching up to his real age Richard Wagstaff Clark died of a massive heart attack.  Clark was mostly known for American Bandstand even though he was a powerful television producer responsible for a multitude of specials, and series and even a game show or two… Read full post »

Maybe it's just me, I find myself mesmerized by the television I watched as a child lately.  I try to watch new shows and most of them leave me cold.  The dramas are so formulaic that I sit and spout the dialogue as they go on.  My wife thinks… Read full post »

It's warm today, a bit more than average but, that isn't uncommon anymore.  An early Spring that ended an almost unnoticible Winter.  Not that mild Winters are in themselves a harbinger of doom.  A sunny day as pleasant as one could wish for, the stiff breeze aside.

This is a decided… Read full post »

The hearing was a long goddam time coming.  I was ushered out of the workplace on May 31 2007 and I've been waiting since then.  I am a worry wart too so I spent most of the night befoe the hearing pacing and unable to sleep despite massive doses of drugs.… Read full post »

On a breezy May 31st in 2008 I was sent home /to the emergency room from my last job.  I spent three days in the hospital and when I was released I was subject to a multitude of tests that culminated in what seemed to be a simple result.  I had… Read full post »

Perhaps the three or so of you who regularly view my little bloggy have noticed that I've not been myself for a bit.  Not to belabor the point, but, I have not been well at all for a while now.  Now, not to worry, I am doing as well as can… Read full post »

Good day, I am getting sick and tired of all the half truths, deliberate decption, and the outright lies.  What the hell ever became of just plain telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?  Have we all decided that unless we are under oath and facing the… Read full post »

Well, I know that I am a rocker from way back, but don't forget I'm also a boy who was raised in and out of honkey tonks and roadhouses.  That's why I'm sad to see that Earl Scruggs has passed away at the ripe old age of 88.

Earl was a… Read full post »

So much venom and hate going on  today.  I may be showing my age but next week will mark the 44th anniversary of the assassination of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.. The Summer that follwed this event was a tragedy for our entire nation and right now it seems… Read full post »

Dick got a heart transplant.  At age 71.  Did he shoot the donor himself or did he have someone else do it?  Is he going to use the old one as a doorstop?  

I wanted to write something a little tongue in cheek, get a little laugh going but, the… Read full post »

I have tried to resist the urge to get up on a soapbox on the subject of Treyvon Martins murder.  I don't understand Florida law for one thing, how can an unarmed person make a life threatening action against a person armed with a pistol?  How can it be possible to… Read full post »