Spending a lot of time on the interstate lately between sea level and Tahoe. I was stuck in a three-hour standstill just outside of Roseville a few Thursdays ago. Ninety degree heat with the engine off watching a lot of men unsuited for shorts getting out of their cars to try and get a look […]
Category Archives: Posting
Independent Thinking
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
“I can hear the fireworks / up-and-down the San-fran-cis-co bay” – Van Morrison Approaching another birthday and getting old. I never seem to “become old” but instead am always getting there. It’s like one last thing to aspire to before dying in failure. Bob Dylan has this line “I’m gettin’ old ; anything can happen […]
Bobby Z and the Lazy Repost
Monday, June 12, 2023
A long while back I took a crack at answering a post on ‘Quora’, which is a question and answer website. The question was straight-forward: “What’s so good about Bob Dylan?” Here’s what I came up with: The standard answer here, to paraphrase David Letterman on his penultimate show, is that Dylan is the greatest […]
He Is Risen
Saturday, April 8, 2023
I’ve been out walking I don’t do too much talking these days – Jackson Browne Shouldn’t it be “He has risen” ? Best not to question such things on Easter Eve. But I am calling bullshit on Jackson Browne, who supposedly wrote that tune at sixteen. “Don’t confront me with my failures / I had not […]
Eulogized Egoists
Monday, February 6, 2023
The thing about eulogies is, despite your best efforts you can never be sure how they will handle your own. As much as we all have egos, we’ve imagined our funerals. It’s really the last grand foray into self indulgence. But that’s all it is, and at the end of the final day we have […]
Come They Told Me
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
“Pretty thing, isn’t it?” – Bing to Bowie I can now confirm that my infrequent posting here is the direct result of negotiations to sell this blog space to Elon Musk in early 2023. Not sure where he’ll find the time but I understand he plans on writing bi-weekly updates on my life, as well […]
Swimming Pools and Rocket Scientists
Sunday, August 7, 2022
Deadlines and commitments, What to leave in; what to leave out – Bob Seger “Against The Wind” The Detroit Everyman really had something there, and he put it in non rocket scientist terms, which is central to this leaving stuff out theme. What good is art (music, writing, talking, loving, moving) if nobody gets it? […]
Kinder, Gentler Rivers
Sunday, April 10, 2022
I’ve been inactive for a while. Still moving my limbs, and occasionally exercising my mind, but largely inactive as far as these posts go. Something the Fresh Prince of Bel Air said in his Oscars acceptance speech moved me to move my typing fingers. “I’m being called on .. to be a river to my […]
Gimme Three Steps (Straight Outta Kenosha)
Saturday, November 20, 2021
“AK-47 is the tool; don’t make me act the motherfuckin’ fool ..” – Ice Cube Sage advice from Mr Cube, who also had this ‘equity’ thing figured out when he suggested it was a problem of class and not race. But I digress, and digression can get one killed or expelled these days. No digression, […]
Never Fazed
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Some people don’t like baseball. I get that. It’s fine. The game can move slowly; the season can drag on forever. There’s a certain pretense, at times anyway, to those who describe its nuances, its “pastoral nature,” its status as the thinking man’s/woman’s game. It’s our game, as Americans, and that alone can cast it […]