NERKLES & SEERSUCKERS UNITE!

Being a half Native / half Irish mutt means I have become somewhat accustomed in my life to having ‘muggles’ make less than deserved claims to what has apparently become deemed a desirable heritage, particularly around the middle of March.  Thanks to the Trail of Tears, most anyone in the nation whose family didn’t ( Read more... )

One In Every Bunch

Uncle Jack* was the only son born to Meemaw Fogerty after previous attempts at carrying on his name gave her husband four daughters, whom he christened Francine, Claudine, Justine, and Pauline - just so that he could call them by boys’ names, since he didn’t have any proper male heirs.  Of course, the girls never answered to “ ( Read more... )

Comforts of Home

1956
It was the “Golden Age” of American history.  The realization of the American Dream: The nuclear family as a classic model of aspiration, in which Mom, Dad, 2.5 kids and a dog share a home in the suburbs with a white picket fence, where Dad brings home a solid annual income that supports the entire family, while Mom sees the ( Read more... )

TIME CAPSULE: 1965
POLITICSUS PRESIDENTLBJCOLD WARLeonid BrezhnevECONOMICSNEW HOME$21,500 NEW CAR$2,650 AVERAGE INCOME  (Annual)$6,450 MINIMUM WAGE  (Hour)$1.25 GAS  (Gal)$0.31 MILK  (Gal)$1.05 BREAD  (Loaf)$0.21 POSTAGE STAMP$0.05 FILMDR ZHIVAGOOmar ShariffMARY POPPINSJulie AndrewsTHE SOUND OF MUSICJulie AndrewsMY FAIR LADYAudrey HepburnTELEVISION ( Read more... )

TIME CAPSULE: 1956-7
POLITICSUS PRESIDENTDwight "I Like IKE" D. EisenhowerCOLD WARNikita KhrushchevECONOMICSNEW HOME$11,700 NEW CAR$2,050 AVERAGE INCOME  (Annual)$4,450 MINIMUM WAGE  (Hour)$1.00 GAS  (Gal)$0.22 MILK  (Gal)$0.97 BREAD  (Loaf)$0.18 POSTAGE STAMP$0.03 FILMGIANTRock HudsonGUYS & DOLLSFrank SinatraTHE KING AND IYul BrynnerTELEVISION•  ( Read more... )

The New Guy

The concierge caught me with a note on my way into the locker room this afternoon.

“Bruce-

Call me right away before you go on tonight.

-Giselle.”

Great.

It was going to be one of those nights.  And my evening had been looking so promising.  She doesn’t normally work weekends, so, this must be ( Read more... )

Carnavalé de Inferno

Aloha, combustion junkies & other assorted cheeky monkeys ( Read more... )

Patience
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Intimate Images enter my mind
Painting a Passionate picture of Peace
As sensuous strains of a classic guitar
Float softly above the din

The atmosphere suggests a forest
Dark and cool, wild and wondrous
Nature’s bounty ( Read more... )

Elemental Treasure

That Queen Bitch labled him a Pirate.  He who served the king with honor, who scoured the known continents and braved the unknown to assuage her petty and salacious appetites.  He who gave his dying breath to safeguard the people of this land, a land that never accepted him within its folds, that which banished him to the sea.  ( Read more... )