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May 18, 2012 07:46AM - Jobs From Hell, Part II
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...And a Job from Limbo
Not all jobs are jobs from hell. Some are very nice jobs, as was my employment with the porn mill. And some jobs are, well, a couple steps above hell. I've had a couple of those too, the most memorable being the one I had immediately after leaving my glory days… Read full post »
Jobs From Hell, Part II
We pick up our fascinating tale of my personal Jobs from Hell where we left off in the last blog, describing my fun-filled days working for an L.A. public relations firm shilling a land development project laughingly called Golden Hills in beautiful Tehachapi, California, and our project of th… Read full post »
Jobs From Hell, Part II
We
pick up our fascinating tale of my personal Jobs from Hell where we
left off in the last blog, describing my fun-filled days working
for an L.A. public relations firm shilling a land development
project laughingly called Golden Hills in beautiful Tehachapi,
California, and our project of th… Read full post » Jobs From Hell
Reminiscing about my days in the porn industry in my most recent blog posts reminded me of a few of my less pleasant working experiences...so “less pleasant,” in fact, that I consider them my Jobs from Hell.
The first and most memorable of these was my first job in Los Angeles,… Read full post »
Poem: Thoughts, Like Soldiers
Thoughts, like soldiers battle-clad,
clash within my mind.
And in the chaos swirling there
no logic can I find.
A single thought,
its saber drawn,
rushes past me,
then is gone.
I stand upon the battleground
and view the muddied scent;
the thoughts adorned in tattered rags… Read full post »
More Porn Days
I explained in my last blog how I came to work for the largest “porn mill” on the west coast in the 1970s during the height of the “sexual revolution.” I use it as an example of how we seldom fully appreciate the uniqueness of our experiences while we're living them.… Read full post »
My Days in Porn
I’m not out to offend the pure of heart. Really, I’m not. But it is the not-ordinary that tends to make life most interesting, and I’ve had quite a few not-ordinaries in mine. Here’s a look at one of them.
When my mom died shortly after moving to California to… Read full post »
Bubbly Creek
Where
Michigan Avenue crosses the Chicago River stand four large,
regal-looking towers, two on each bank, flanking the lift bridge.
Only one or two of them houses the mechanism that raises and lowers
the bridge, but the builders thought four would look better and
more impressive. So there are… Read full post » I'm Not Going Anywhere
I’m Not Going Anywhere
I’m not going anywhere:
I plan to live forever.
(And just how often’s that been done?
Well, okay, maybe never.)
Life is after all a gift
and one must not tempt fate
by examining it too closely
for an expir… Read full post »
Life and Furniture Stores
Just
saw one of those "Buy Now and Pay Nothing until 20XX" furniture
store ads on TV and suddenly realized that's pretty much the way
life works. And while I can't, much as I would really like
to, believe in a prescient God, I really do believe there is
something out… Read full post » The Blogger's Dilemma
While
I don't particularly agree with the Ralph Waldo Emerson's opinion
that "consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," I find it does
come with its own problems. Consistency leads to routine and
routine leads to rut and ruts, once having worn a hole in the
psyche, are hard to get… Read full post » The Best of Times
It's
a sad but universal fact of the human condition that we often do
not fully appreciate the present until it has become the past. I
use the photo accompanying this blog as my desktop background, to
remind me of one of the very best weeks/best times of my life,
recorded… Read full post » Poem: Rules of the Game
Rules of the Game
I’ve played at romance for a long time,
and one basic rule stays the same:
the sooner someone says “I love you!”
the sooner they forget your name.
--Dorien Grey
Marching On
A
march is playing as I type…a march I played as part of the
Naval Aviation Cadet band at a time, it seems now, both only
slightly after dinosaurs roamed the earth and yesterday afternoon.
And instantly I am back on the parade field at Pensacola Naval Air
Station, sweating in… Read full post » "Other People"
We
live in a world of other people. There are over nine billion of us,
but in fact all of humanity consists of only two beings: a
"me"--the individual human being as seen to himself (okay,
"himself/herself"...let's not get bogged down in political
correctness here) and everybody else, or, as I… Read full post » Echoes
I found myself drawn, as I am from time to time, to revisit the letters I wrote my parents while I was in the Navy so very long ago (1954-1956). I guess I like to check to see what the oh, so very young me was doing on a… Read full post »
3 Haiku
The Road to Success
Glossolalia
"Glossolalia
or speaking in
tongues is the fluid vocalizing (or less commonly,
the writing of), speech-like syllables which lack any readily
comprehended meaning."
So sayeth Wikipedia, and who am I to question so august an authority as Wikipedia? The fact is that I find myself sub… Read full post »
Stupidity vs Ignorance
In
one of my little epiphanies, while pondering the fact that our
society increasingly is a veritable Titanic, sinking in the frigid
sea of stupidity, it struck me that the amazing ignorance of the
simplest of facts…like where China is on a map of the
world…made me realize that s… Read full post » Poem: I Knew a Man
I knew a man who,
as a teenager, only liked teenagers.
But as he grew older,
he still only liked teenagers.
When he was about thirty,
he took a lover who was eighteen.
They were very happy…
until the teenager turned twenty.
I knew a man who,
though… Read full post »
Backward, Turn Backward
Elizabeth
Akers Allen (1838-1915) wrote a poem called "Rock Me to Sleep,"
which began with the famous line "Backward, turn backward, O Time,
in your flight." That poem probably inspired the 2008 Brad Pitt
film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I've not seen
the film, but had a dream the… Read full post » Playing the Game
I
never cease to be fascinated with the mental games people
play...not so much with others as with themselves. It's often
referred to as "the game of life," and each of us has, consciously
or subconsciously, our own little game board and our own set of
rules, including an image of… Read full post » The Writing Life
When
my original publisher died last year and the company went out of
business, it left the first ten books of my Dick Hardesty Mystery
series effectively out of print. My current publisher, Zumaya,
which has published four subsequent books in the series, agreed to
reissue the first ten. While… Read full post » I Am As Gay...
I am as gay
as others are straight.
I was gay long before
I knew it had a word.
When I was five
I knew who I was
and only later recognized
that others were not the same.
I learned early
how, if not to pretend,
at… Read full post »
Speaking Spamese
Once
an addict, always an addict. But I am doing quite well, thank you,
and feel my addiction to internet spam is under control. I'm like
an alcoholic in a fully-stocked bar and there is no way I can avoid
being aware of being surrounded and constantly assaulted by
temptation. But… Read full post » 
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