November 2019

  • Another Thanksgiving Passed

    Another Thanksgiving passed. Time. Thanksgiving has never really been anything more than a marker for me, a telling of the season and a day off, but I appreciate the sentiment. I have a lot to be thankful for. Mom had an always welcome Thanksgiving spot with Aunt Lib and the godsend that is our family,… Continue reading

  • A Thanksgiving Thought

    If you’re still here, living and breathing, disagreeing and hugging, agreeing and fighting, calling your mom or your dad or your sister or your brother, thanking a friend for being just that, loving your better half and your kid (s), standing on soapboxes shouting at the world or hoping that someone else soapboxes for you… Continue reading

  • A Curmudgeon’s Connection

    Though I may be something of an intentional curmudgeon these days (a nicer way to say to self that I can be something of an intentional dick) there is always at least one thing that reminds us of just what we’re in this for. Connections. And not of the family type which are, at least… Continue reading

  • Intelligent Disease (a Frankenberry throwback)

    So last night, while searching for something completely unrelated in my mess of really haphazard and unorganized folders (if only my shit at home were as in shape as that at work) I came across this from 13 years ago, something that I had forgotten about. It was at the time that a good friend… Continue reading

  • Sweets Hill

    (this place didn’t have a name, but it does now, at least for me) They’re all special of course. All of our fur that mean so much to us, that provide us so much comfort. Fur that remind us of our human and give us reason to come home. There are obviously people reasons as… Continue reading

  • A Season’s Final Friday Night Light’s Football Weekend’s Not Pizza

    Well, another season of High School Football games with Spectrum Sports and the coolest of cool crews is in the books, Me and BB done with our runs up Albany way for now. While we all finished up this weekend one more time, our broadcasts included the crowning of a few division champs, including Shenendahowa… Continue reading

  • The Trump Treehouse of Tall Stories, Treason and Tyranny – Ep #15: “New Oz Guards, Cossack Hats, Pointy Sticks … Oh, And Dramatic Frothing Spittle”

    Sign above the door: Home Of The He-Tin-Pot-Man Freedom Haters Club ALARMS SOUNDING – (recorded voice of Jon Voight) INTRUDER ALERT!!! INTRUDER ALERT!!! HIGH PRIORITY INTRUDER ALERT AS A MATTER OF FACT!!! INTRUDER OF COLOR ALERT!!! INTRUDER ALERT… Ben: (stops short, laser sight points hovering his chest/aimed weaponized contraptions popping out from every corner of… Continue reading