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- September 30, 2020
- James Dean wasn't a part of my existence
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There was an actor who was born before my father's time who lived fast, died young, and left a beautiful corpse ... or at least he would have had he not wrecked in an automobile at that time.
James Byron Dean
February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955
James Byron Dean was an actor who became the embodiment of teenage disillusionment and estranged social discourse as in his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) which was filmed the year I was born. Later, there were East of Eden and Giant which reinforced this bad boy persona in the public eye.
He was given a posthumous academy award nomination for Best Actor and he received other accolades in the 1990s prior to the academy awards becoming this leftist libard tub of drivel it has with the likes of Jimmy Kimmel who can't separate his politics from anything else in his stupid life running their show .
So with the decline of Hollywood and it's institutions I'm just glad James Dean didn't have to suffer the witness of that moronic devolution the entirety of the movie industry has suffered with their libard rules for works to even be considered and all the rest of that nonsense which is the hallmark of that stupidity called California.
James Dean left us before his career really had any chance to "take off" or blossom into what it was in it's entirety — and as such we will never know the evolution of him within his art nor the kind of person he would have become as well. Roles are not who the actor is. They are what the actor do in the processes involved in dramatic creativity.
Rest in peace.
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- September 29, 2020
- World Heart Day 2020
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The words "heart disease" refer to a group of medical disorders affecting the heart and include blood vessels.
I have a number of serious risk factors due to my genetics and lifestyle and I have lost many family members to various conditions which may be included under that umbrella classification called "heart disease".
Today is another World Heart Day. It is held under the auspices of The World Heart Federation (WHF) which is a nongovernmental organization based in Geneva, Switzerland since 1972.
It is an amalgamation of several organizations such as the International Society of Cardiology which merged with the International Cardiology Federation then changed their collective name to the World Heart Federation.
Despite the combination and formation drama, this organization hosts the World Congress of Cardiology which is an association of cardiologists.
"World Heart Day" was founded in 2000 to inform people around the globe that heart disease and stroke are the world’s leading causes of death.
Your risk factors and awareness of your physical condition are the two greatest weapons against premature death from heart disese. This is the underlying reason for the observation of World Heart Day.
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- September 28, 2020
- Memories of Jerry Clower
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Jerry Clower was a regional favorite among entertainers when I was kid.
I used to listen to some of his material now and then and he had a 'countryfied' manner about him with comparisons of various worldy events and personalities which were at once disarming in their stark defusing of the harsh realities of the time and humorous when one pondered the ramifications of those comparisons otherwise.
He was one of those entertainment constants which were the result of life in the deep South.
Howard Gerald Clower was born September 28, 1926 Liberty, Mississippi.
He was a graduate of Mississippi State University and served in the United States Navy as a Radioman. He received several campaign medals as well as two bronze stars for service in World War II.
So this stand-up comedian from the South left his mark on the world of entertainment with his stories of rural life and his popularity lead to the moniker "The Mouth of Mississippi".
He sold tapes and albums with one of his recordings going platinum.
Jerry Clower passed at age 71 in Jackson, Mississippi a tad over a hundred miles to the North from his home town of Liberty in August 1998 following heart bypass surgery.
He was survived by his widow, a son, and three daughters and seven grandchildren.
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- September 27, 2020
- Contact Forms and Spammers
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I maintain three contact forms, ostensibly for bonafide contact operations.
Of these, I get a few contacts from various colleagues who wish audience for miscellaneous reasons intermittently and the entirety of the rest are spammers seeking various indulgences ...
Typically of the seo/marketing variety as if they think I don't know what crooked phonies they are in reality.
Paying money to a marketing agency in the absence of benefit or need is rather like lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills. It simply is not profitable.
They like to bill you $5000 a week for nothing and call it "research".
Then they get mad at you when you call their bluff in the presence of clientele and they lose that contract they're dying for ... literally.
Stupidity is rampant in government and those consultants they hire are largely shysters on the prowl for taking some pigeon like them to the cleaners.
Boo.
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- September 26, 2020
- National Good Neighbor Day 2020
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Over the years I've had a lot of neighbors. I've had good neighbors. I've had others who like to tresspass frequently and defiantly and otherwise be disrespectful.
My definition of "good neighbor" has evolved over the years. I once viewed it as an involved proximal household but nowadays I'd just as soon not be bothered ...
The Senate passed a resolution by Montana Senator Max Baucus to designate September 26 as National Good Neighbor Day on April 28, 2004 creating National Good Neighbor Day — this neighborly national holiday celebrated each September 26 here in the US.
The brainchild of one Becky Mattson of Lakeside, Montana it is meant to network and recognize leadership in the neighborhood.
President Jimmy Carter signed Proclamation 4601 establishing September 24, 1978 as the first National Good Neighbor Day stating that it should be observed appropriately.
Too bad he ultimately became a dottering old slobbering fool who can't keep his mouth out of politics anymore regardless of how foolhardy his idiotic rantings become.
When I think of good neighbors, I think of Fred Rogers on PBS prior to them degenerating into a leftist libtard vat of sludge.
He brought manners and common sense and discussion to a generation of children who were supplanted by that generation of burger flippers from the early 1990s who reproduced and gave us more dullards, constantly triggered snowflakes, social justice morons, antifa, BLM, and those other warts on the ass of the nation.
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- September 25, 2020
- Bill Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 in 2018
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One of my dad's favorite comics was Bill Cosby. I'm glad he didn't live to see all of the women claiming sexual assault, rape, and drug facilitated sexual assault charges brought against him in the mid 2010s as well as the guilty verdicts in light of the innumerable statute of limitations expirations whereby he was sentenced to three to ten years in prison in September two years back.
He has been suffering some of the consequences of his alleged actions with enormous penalties in the socioeconomic, educational, and interpersonal realms internationally. He has been incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania.
Oh, the humanity.
He is appearing to be a modern day hypersexuality inclined Glen Quagmire yet a totally nonfictional purveyor and provider of the dreaded "Roofie Colada" whereby the victims allege they woke up in a drugged up hangover having been sexually involved with him against their will.
Some of the anecdotal evidence brought against him was truly horrendous.
For this reason, I opted not to follow the case too closely because that allure which was the Bill Cosby schtick and those numerous characters and his television persona has been with me since I was a chap.
Daddy would have been disappointed in all of this had he lived to see the news reports of various court proceedings ...
Others have appeared devastated in light of the hallowed human being Mr Cosby became only to fall long and hard from the good graces of humanity due to his pursuit of carnal indulgences which were not his to pursue much less partake in the manner described in court proceedings.
It was all a personal tragedy as well but mostly I feel badly for my daddy who was actually a fan of his for as long as I knew him. I did not go there but view it all a shame nonetheless.
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- September 24, 2020
- Remembering Jackie Stallone
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Didn't have too much in the way of observation, but over the years I have encountered Sly Stallone's late mother, Jackie on the television in various roles and doing commercials.
Jackie Stallone
November 29, 1921 – September 21, 2020
She was a dancer, astrologer and businesswoman who was one of those larger than life personalities who didn't shy away from the camera or anything else for that matter.
Jacqueline Frances Labofish Stallone was a lady of numerous memorable images who worked as a promoter for the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
Having a few marriages under her belt, she was the mother of actor Sylvester Stallone, singer Frank Stallone, and actress Toni D'Alto.
The late night comedians parodied her intermittely over the years and she was featured on various programs as well as commercial spots for her business endeavors.
Of course, the wrestling franchise involved publicity and stage acting and the reality circuit was another vehicle she pursued.
Jackie Stallone died in her sleep on September 21, 2020 at the ripe old age of 98 and I can think of much worse ways to go. Rest in peace.
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- September 23, 2020
- Opinion and Paywalls and Clickbait Oh My !
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With disgust, I perused the local news sites which represent the various televison stations and the one local newspaper.
My disdain at paywalls and clickbait is palpable as I encounter one or the other ... or both continually.
That's all the local news web sites know. News is is not the business of the mainstream media anymore. Opinion is all they're selling.
Yellow journalism, paywalls, and clickbait are all you get.
I hope these failed journalist main stream media outlets get theirs and go belly up like the local mcclatchy newspaper did.
They're trying to dig their way back out and I hope they fail, pack up, and leave the area forever.
Who needs a bunch of news media preoccupied with spreading leftist libtard drivel as they try and separate you from as much cash as possible during the interim.
Unfortunately, the Fox web site is just as bad; if not worse than the rest in this regard.
Boo thestate.com, wistv.com, wltx.com, wach.com. Worthlessness incarnate.
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- September 22, 2020
- Autumnal Equinox 2020
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I can tell that fall is upon us.
We had our first cool snap of the season and it's imparted a crispness to the air.
Though still in hurricaine season it's looking like the holiday season is rapidly approaching as well with October just around the corner.
Ah, my most favorite time of the year.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for summer as well but the heat cannot compare to that comfort this coolness affords me personally.
It takes me back to my early childhood in Blackfoot, Idaho where the frost lay thick on the grass as I walked to school.
There were numerous flowers and fruit trees and something about the nature lent itself to favorable memories of autumn, harvest time, and the coming winter.
So in this, the autumn of my life I am happy to welcome that season appropriate to my comfort zone.
It's not quite here ... but it's coming up fast.
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- September 21, 2020
- National Pecan Cookie Day 2020
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Once upon a time I knew of pecan sandies.
They were the only pecan cookie familiar to me and I would encounter them periodically and enjoy them with milk.
Nowadays there are many more varieties of pecan cookie which traverse the gamut of forms and flavors well beyond my old standard.
Today is National Pecan Cookie Day in the United States.
Held each 21st of September it is an observance of the baked goods featuring pecans which are available these days.
The word pecan is of Algonquin derivation meaning 'nut requiring a stone to crack'.
The nut is native to the southern and central United States and I have experience in groves of them and watching machines shell them producing bushel baskets of nut meats in perfect halves ...
Pecans like walnuts are relatives of the hickory nut and there are about a thousand varieties of them to be found internationally.
They are a very healthy foodstuff but I have been known to over indulge periodically ending up giving away gallon bags of them.
Happy National Pecan Cookie Day !
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- September 20, 2020
- Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in 1973
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I remember the Billie Jean King vs Bobby Riggs tennis match mess on this day in 1973. I recall it because I was at Herb's Grill on Broadriver Road at St Andrews participating in a watering hole clique get together with a person who thought I was his personal slave.
The television had a great picture and I slammed down a couple of beers even though I didn't particularly care for the taste because I was 18 and of age among a bunch of yapping men trying to be heard above one another.
So in my boredom I watched television and interjected occasionally and really could have done without the entire episode.
So much for the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
I left late that evening feeling used, abused, poor, and that Bobby Riggs was a mouthy idiotic fool ... much like the bung hole I met at the place because it was politically expedient.
Anyway, things deteriorated further over time and I ended up disappointing my father by withdrawing from x-ray school and he didn't get past it for years.
He didn't know about the forced house cleaning and never ending side duties associated with this over bearing god complex having bastard.
I suppose returning to the state technical college system and teaching there for 20 years somewhat redeemed me but in retrospect I certainly would have been better off not setting a precedent for quitting.
I quit a few more jobs in a similar fashion after that and now I have reached the point where I can't just up and quit anymore, regardless of how hostile the environment.
The effort required not to bite the hand that feeds me is sometimes overwhelming but I'm simply too old to go there.
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- September 19, 2020
- International Talk Like a Pirate Day
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Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
It is a parody holiday which arose from the efforts of one John Baur and one Mark Summers from Albany, Oregon who decided September 19 each year should be the day when everyone in the world talks like a pirate.
So instead of those standard greetings the old time nautical stuff is more appropos to the moment.
My FTP server is about the only thing remotely compliant ... it communicates in the manner of a pirate seeing how I once envisioned myself as the imaginary CEO of Ahoy Matey Software way back when.
Select pirate terminology for your consideration:
- Ahoy
- Arrrgh!
- Aye
- Avast!
- Be
- Bilge
- Black Spotted
- Booty
- Hornswaggle
- Landlubber
- Marooned
- Mate
- Me
- Port
- Rigging
- Shiver me timbers
- Starboard
- Ye
- Yer
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- September 18, 2020
- Yes Ladies and Gentlemen ...
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For just $29.99 you too can have your very own space force 2 dollar bill being marketed by the executive administration.
It is stated to be legal tender and commemorative of the United States space force — which has only been around since Roswell even though the official establish date is December 20, 2019 and was part of the Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.
The deuce face value means that it is worth 6.66 percent of the retail price. Perhaps another Unacknowledged Special Access Project is indicated to fund this up front devaluation. Regardless, I personally believe that freshly printed US currency worth two dollars should go for two dollars ... plus postage and handling of course.
Boo !
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- September 17, 2020
- Remembering Red Skelton
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Richard Red Skelton
July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997When I was a kid Red Skelton was a standard of comedy. I was known to watch his television show weekly and enjoyed the many characters he portrayed. Sometimes there were interspersed poignant moments of serious reminscing which punctuated the comedy and pantomime slapstick schtick which was the hallmark of the program.
I recall in particular his tribute to his young son Richard who passed from leukemia ten days prior to his tenth birthday. This was at the height of Red Skelton's popularity. It was entitled "Little Boy" and was performed during one of his television shows while he was in costume as a hobo clown character from the previous skit.
Though I recall this performance from my childhood, I never knew the details behind that performance until recently.
He was a performer of radio and television pioneer who did vaudeville, burlesque, night clubs, casinos, and even feature films and short subjects. He authored books and was a big box office draw during the years from 1944 through 1952. He was also an accomplished artist and many of his clown paintings are valued by collectors all over.
He considered making people laugh to be his life's work. His career in comedy spanned 70 years and generations of American audiences. His final year of regularly scheduled television ran through 1971 after which there were public appearances and painting
Red Skelton died on September 17, 1997 at the age of 84 in Rancho Mirage, California from an undisclosed illness.
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