Hear Me Roar There is a little movie out there that has some great stars in it, but only ever did less than $50 million in box office receipts, so was not widely seen. It is called Secondhand Lions and starred Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment and Kyra Sedgwick. It was written and directed by an obscure Tim McCanlies who’s only other claim to fame was the Iron Giant animated film. The film…
Stopping the Steal I woke up this morning to noisy gusting winds. It woke up Betty and probably scared her, so I brought her up onto the bed and she did what she never does, promptly curled up to sleep some more rather than go out and brave the wind. I too would have preferred to stay in bed, which is equally unusual, but I got up because I have a doctors appointment for a…
Feelin’ Good We have all spent the day watching the Biden/Harris inauguration and I just listened to John Legend sing it best when he said he was “feelin’ good”. We are all feelin’ good today. We feel good because a terrible episode is over and already starting to fade to black. As bad as the four years have been, the longest four years I can recall, the last three months have seemed even longer and…
High Flying Adored Today, meaning this day when this story is being published, is a momentous day in America and I have been searching for a way to memorialize it in my writing in as meaningful a way as I can. It’s Wednesday, January 20th, Inauguration Day. I’m tempted to say that since today (the real today, January 18th) is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, that in two days we will be free at last,…
The Great Divide Every day that goes by, more and more information comes out to clarify the nature of the events that really took place in the Capitol last week, and it isn’t getting any better. In fact, there is a feeling that we are getting the slow-play version of the real story and this onion peeling exercise might well end up giving us a look at a very rotten onion. Now that Impeachment Resolution…
Special Edition – The Battle for Democracy The Last Castle If you haven’t seen Robert Redford’s movie The Last Castle, you should watch this entertaining film. It’s the story of a top Army General (Redford) who pleads guilty of contravening a presidential order and going into an African war zone in order to rescue some of his otherwise abandoned men. He is set up as a man who acted on conscience, a primary sense that…
The End Game I’m sitting here tonight not watching a movie as is my habit. Instead, I am still watching MSNBC as we head towards 8pm. The election night music is becoming very familiar to me and watching Steve Kornacki tally and project votes seems like a normal thing for us. I can’t say I like watching county-by-county voting results for Georgia or any other state for that matter. That seems like a level of…
Snow Where to Go Today I got spanked by a loyal member of my motorcycle club. This is a group I founded twenty-five years ago. In fact, this past year I authored a 440-page tome titled The Ride is All about the twenty-five years of riding together all over the world. There is an entire chapter up front about all the characters that make up the club. I’m not sure we are any more or…
Double Barrel Every day when I sit down to write I am always want to write about something other than the Coronavirus and the nonsense in Washington. I opt to write about how I feel, how I occupy my time, what Betty is up to, and bigger things underway in the universe. But today, ostensibly the first working day of 2021, I am dragged back to reality, so let’s see what is on the plate.…
Me and Bobby McGee Janis Joplin took the song Me and Bobby McGee to number one on the Billboard charts in 1971 with her posthumous album named Pearl. It was the second such posthumous success after Otis Redding put out The Dock of the Bay, days before his death in 1967. Of course, Janis died of a heroin overdose and Otis died in a plane crash going to a gig, but they both have their…