Political correctness
a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

Writer’s Block: Jackpot

If you won the lottery, what would you do with your newfound riches?

First, I’d pay off my debts, buy some land, and build my dream house. Then I’d invest most of what’s left so that I could live comfortably on the interest and pursue my interests.

Writer’s Block: Dream Trip

If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?

I’ve always wanted to visit Australia and New Zealand. I’d also like to visit the places where my ancestors lived so I can try to learn more about them through local records, to walk where they walked, and see where they are buried.

Bikes, Toons, Nazis, & Nudists

Today’s Quote: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Song: Choo Choo Mama
Artist: Alvin Lee & Ten Years After
Album: Rock & Roll Music to the World
Released: 1972
Alvin Lee is a very under-appreciated guitarist and bluesman, at least here in the US. He really is quite good.
I called in sick [...]

You know you're tired when...

Today’s Quote: “Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised.” — François duc de la Rochefoucauld, French memoirist and philosopher (1613-1680)

I really felt tired this evening. While watching television this evening I fell asleep in the armchair and dreamed that I had fallen asleep in the armchair while watching television.

Why can't I have it my way?

Today’s Quote: “The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.” — Joe Ancis

Double Secret Probation
The Wendys on Archer Drive in Troy is on double secret probation for quasi-deceptive practices although I’m sure all the fast food franchises do the same thing. They really need to define what they mean by medium [...]

Whatcha talkin' 'bout Willis?

Loggins & Messina – House on Pooh Corner

Today’s Quote: “Naturism offers a way of being that dares to suggest that who we are without any additions or covering up is all we need to be.” — Phillip Carr-Gomm

Why do I have dreams? What’s the point? They’re all pretty much impossible; I’d have to sever all [...]

Half my weekend is missing

Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl

Today’s Quote: “It is not our abilities that show what we truly are…it’s our choices.” — J.K. Rowling
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” — Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter, Chapter 18, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Today felt [...]

Dream-DVR

Jethro Tull – Locomotive Breath

Today’s Quote: “I am not a naturist, a nudist, a streaker, nor an exhibitionist. Labels are for clothes. My unclothed appearance is also not motivated sexually nor out of any gratuitous need to seek attention. I believe that while society continues to have a fundamentally negative relationship with the human body [...]

Sleeping late dreams

The Undisputed Truth – Smiling Faces Sometimes (Tell Lies)

Today’s Quote: “The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.” — George Bernard Shaw

Oh, how I enjoyed sleeping late today. [...]

A genealogical dream

Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young – Deja Vu

Today’s Quote: “Love is overrated. Biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.” — Al Pacino in The Devil’s Advocate

This morning was one of those rare occasions where I actually remember a dream. Usually, I remember that I had a dream but most often even the subject [...]