Those who know me personally would probably universally agree that I am a cynic, with a natural tendency to not just see the glass as half-empty as opposed to half-full, but maybe empty instead of half-empty. I do not project that on this blog. Or at least I’ve tried not to. Rather, I try to…
Month: February 2021
Must Be the Season of the Switch
If one were to make a visual of my brain in the form of a road map, it’d look a lot like President Dwight Eisenhower’s interstate highway system program leader got an extremely time-limited crack at redesigning some ancient city. Picture a few super highways piercing through a latticework of untold numbers of small, crooked…
Ignorance Is Not Bliss
A while back, I wrote about that it’s OK to be dumb, but not stupid. The gist of that is that ignorance (“dumb” in my crude personal parlance) is excusable, but consciously hurting yourself and/or others—physically, mentally, or even financially— (“stupid” in my personal parlance) isn’t. I make no bones on this blog about my…
YOLO. O.
One of my favorite dumb movies from the 1980s was a film called Johnny Dangerously. It starred Joe Piscopo. For my younger Dear Readers who may never have heard of Joe, he was a rising star in the mid-80s. Also starring was Michael Keaton 1.0. If you know Michael Keaton from Birdman or later movies,…
