Meat and Potatoes

I’m a meat and potatoes persona with grata cheese sometimes. I like this old-fashioned combo–usually with cauliflower and broccoli thrown on top. I’ve learned I need to add veggies to the mix if I want to eat healthy. Fresh green beans are great if added right at the end. I do love my kitchen–more than …

My First Computer Experience: A Tech Journey

How I tried to start a series of books by using Joseph Campbell’s epic template of Greek Tradition: Muni Gods – Leaving Time – Fare Box – APOTHEOSIS Brake Test – ENTER THE CAVE  Crunch Zone – COURAGE Flip-Up Seats – BELLY OF THE WHALE Over There – Flat Tire – Hot Lunch  – FIRST …

Back to Flip

Oh, I got this one! In the data-and-text only marketing, a flip phone in the late nineties and early two thousands were fantastic. They had a flip that protected the screen, didn’t have charging port jack obsolescence built-in like endless Apple rebuys–and it was a phone that was a phone. People were holding the cute …

Be Here Now

Keanu Reeves, in a DVD Feature Menu from the Matrix Series, is caught on an unrehearsed clip between takes–as saying, “Be Here Now.” The Director and crew were trying to limit Keanu’s meandering on what he thought was needed–in a retake of a scene just completed on the set. We don’t really know what they …

No Nonsense Know How

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYAcr-u-BLGIrtUImT2_Elw/videos The 1971 Chevy Chevelle SS Chris runs an awesome channel on YouTube where he buys old junkers found in a barn, or junkyard, and sees if he can try to get them to run after around twenty to twenty-five years old! He even goes on road trips to Arizona to get vehicles that are …

Creation is a “See” before Reaction!

As a tried tired alky of 26 years, I finally “found the light” in Alcoholics Anonymous. I learned the difference between Spirituality and Religion: Religion is for those who don’t want to go to Hell, and Spirituality is for those who have been to Hell, and don’t want to go back! I learned the Seventh …

“You’re Kinda Weird, but you’re Kinda Cute”

I could only hope to be told this at a bar or cafe–as I have repeated this line from a customer who stepped into a bar where Tom Holland’s character, Nate Drake, of Sir Francis Drake fame, was working, somewhere in Mid-town–in the movie “Uncharted” directed by Ruben Fleischer, produced by Charles Roven and Avi …