I am so pleased that Chantel seems to like Ishmael as much as I do.  She suggested that she could meditate on each page for hours (as I once did) – and treat it like one might treat a Bible – or any other “holy” book for that matter. And I can use all-the-support-I-can-get these […]

Not too long ago – HG and I were sitting in my office drinking copious amounts of the fermented grape and listening to some of the recorded tunage of my old, Rock & Roll Daze.  HG asked me where the guitarist was – the guitarist in question being one, Ron Dehart.  I told HG that

As I contemplated how the United States got so fucked up – I tossed around a few ideas: 1)      We’ve always been this fucked up – being founded by Malcontents; 2)      Christianity has fucked us up; or, 3)      The Viet Nam War and the sex, drugs and R & R that became its flotsam and

I’ve finally figured out what has completely and totally fucked up the good ol’ U.S. of A…Daylight Savings Time!  I have realized that the one thing the Arizona Republic got right was never switching to daylight savings time!!  (I do think they were wrong on MLK day, however [and I still would have preferred a

Giti and I woke up quite late this morning – both-of-us recovering from a Friday Night/Saturday Morning Persian party (these Persians [Iranians for the unschooled]) – rarely get going till 10:00pm – and can easily slide into 3:00am with their “hand dancing” to Persianized disco (I often tell Giti – that I think the Persians

I was going to write an article about my short-term memory loss, and the fact that what I think would be a great topic for my Sunday Night Op-Eds – quite escapes me at writing time – leading me to believe that my alcohol consumption has finally taken its toll.  But, as the legendary Anthony

The Ides of March cometh – and Obama will barely have 45 days in office – but the Republicans are still suggesting that America’s future downfall will be Obama’s fault!  Future downfall?!  What are these Rushphile neo-Nazis thinking”! The U.S. is already in free fall and it took the Bushies only 8 years to undo

I’ve never wanted to be considered an average drunk – I’d much rather be considered an exceptional drunk, along the lines of F. Scott Fitzgerald, or William Faulkner, or even Edgar Allen Poe.  I don’t know if I will ever write anything that can be put on a par with these three, or compose anything

So under-educated (that means college drop-out), pill poppin’ (you don’t really think he quit this stuff do you [once an addict, always an addict]), fathead Rush Limbaugh has declared himself the unofficial leader of the Republican party.  It actually makes perfect sense – as the GOP is the party of White, neo-Nazi persuasion. I watched

Well, I’m doing it – I’m watching “The Grammys” – if only to see Paul McCartney perform (Man! He is great! ! [I wonder why he and that one-legged chick didn’t get along – oh yeah, she didn’t approve of the drugs]).  Actually, there have been some solid performances: that Jennifer Hudson is something else