I’ve been travelling down Memory Lane recently, far from the madding crowd of reality. The stark reality of the January 6th hearings, reality that resembles the madness of movies like “Seven Days In May”, “The Parallax View” and “The Manchurian… Read More ›
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ANOTHER “DUH” CONVERSATION ON GUN CONTROL – GARRY ARMSTRONG
It was an innocent quick trip to the local supermarket. Two or three items and I would exit the place. I was wrong on so many levels. My fast dash down a shopping lane was quickly stopped. Passage was blocked… Read More ›
POSTWAR: A HISTORY OF EUROPE SINCE 1945 By TONY JUDT
It’s the truth. Not the truth we’ve been led to believe, but the truth every nation has tried to make sure we did not know. This books is not only history. It’s also culture and art. It’s 857 pages long… Read More ›
FLASHBACK FRIDAY ON SATURDAY: A PORN STAR, A PLAYMATE, A PLAINTIFF AND A GUY NAMED PECKER WALK INTO A BAR – By TOM CURLEY
FLASHBACK FRIDAY ON A SATURDAY So the bartender says “What is this? Some kind of joke?” The answer is, yes and no. It’s not a joke. It’s reality. In so far as reality has become a bigger and bigger joke… Read More ›
ME AND BERNIE SCHWARTZ – GARRY ARMSTRONG
Those of you who are regular visitors to this site know I like to share stories about my encounters with legendary stars from old Hollywood. The shares come from my working days as a TV news reporter. It was a… Read More ›
SHARING THE WORLD? MAYBE WE SHOULD SHARE LESS?
SHARE YOUR WORLD 3-14-2022 There are days when I feel there’s too much sharing going on. Today, after neglecting my email for just a day and a half, I had more than 500 emails, most of them news from either the… Read More ›
RECYCLING THE WORLD
Tragedies, calamities, doom, damnation, and the world is ending. Well, it probably IS ending and I don’t think there’s much I can do about it. I’ve been feeling tired of being me for a while. Possibly years. I am sure… Read More ›
WAR?
Talk about going back to the olden days. Wow, we are on a roll! Watching news tonight was a return to the 1950s when we were hiding under our desks so the A-bomb wouldn’t hit us. Even as a child,… Read More ›
NOR’EASTER FELLS THE LEGEND By GARRY ARMSTRONG
Mother Nature came through on the heels of the frantic predictions of a whopper storm. Skeptical New Englanders are watching the snow fall faster than the numbers on Wall Street after another week of gridlock on Capitol Hill. What’s the… Read More ›
PRETENDING TO CARE: WHY “NET ZERO” IS DELUSIONAL NONSENSE
Written by Sean Munger. Forward by Marilyn Armstrong Personally, I think it is hopeless. I don’t see any signs of progress in this country or in any major polluting nation. In the few small countries where they are making an… Read More ›
CATCHING UP ON SLEEP
I stopped sleeping soundly when Owen was a baby. It turns out newborns don’t make a lot of noise. It takes a few weeks before they develop the lung power to jar you out of a deep sleep and get… Read More ›
WORRIED BARNYARD FANS
October marked a full 20 years of my retirement after 45 — maybe more (who can remember?) — years as a TV and radio news reporter. Thanks to some kind people, I’ve avoided becoming Mr. Norman Desmond. Many people, spanning… Read More ›