Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


A Coney Island Of The Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti died. Does anybody know who that is now? Back in the sixties they did not teach to the test. You still could not go to public school in the metropolis, but if you lived in the suburbs, there were fewer than thirty kids per class and there was enough paper for the mimeo […]

Morgan Wallen

When are we gonna let this guy out of the doghouse? Let’s get very specific here, and leave emotions aside. What Wallen said is vernacular that is used in the black community all the time, the N-word is a part of hip-hop culture and employed on recordings. That does not make Wallen’s usage right, but […]

The Tiger Woods Doc

I’m in the middle of this. Been a strange day. First and foremost it was raining, which means snow in the mountains, Mammoth got over a hundred inches, not something you can fathom if you live on the east coast, if you live anywhere but California, where it doesn’t snow often, but when it does […]

Blowback

They want you to shut up. Have an opinion, post it online, and you will get blowback. Which scares most people away. Those of character ignore what is said and march on, the wimps tuck their tails and retreat. Welcome to the twenty first century. This affects all walks of life, all individuals. You’ve got […]