Social Commentary

Back when I was about ten, I saw a mailbox at a nearby house with the last name of one of my classmates on it, so I went up and knocked on the door to ask if Mike was home.  The lady patiently explained to me that his family did not live there.  I know that in the ensuing decade, I pulled into the wrong driveway, probably opened the wrong car door, and my basketball rolled where it shouldn’t have been.  Fortunately, in all those instances, nobody took a shot at me.  So, what the hell is wrong with people in 21st century America? Every single day brings us ghastly news of new shootings. We repealed the 18th amendment, now let’s do the 2nd.

OK, back to my generally lighter musings. There’s been a big change in my financial life as I have just kicked the kids off the telecom gravy train by making them pay for their own mobile phone bills.  I thought at 33 and 30 they might be able to handle it. Those kids will be coming home this week, as we all head up to Tahoe on Thursday for the wedding of TCG’s SB1 and his beautiful fiancée. My SB1 gets in tomorrow so I’ll fill his gaping maw with linguine carbonara. On Monday I’ll let him tag along with me for my birthday lunch with my big bro at John’s Grill. The rest of the crew gets in on Wednesday.  My trainer gave me a monster pot roast a while back so that will be coming out of the freezer this weekend.

As I mentioned previously, the email feature of this blog does not seem to be working, so I’d appreciate it if those of you lucky enough to be on the list would drop me a note if it shows up in your inbox. Of course, #2 can’t do that since I dropped him from the list in favor of The Wig’s brother.  C’mon, I need new readership.

My wife has been busy as usual.  She has been putting in a lot of hours with the San Carlos school district but has also been working on the wedding shower for the daughter of Unc and Mashie.  She is good at coordinating flowers, food, and fun and games.  I’ve tried to make some suggestions and have asked if there was any way that I could somehow participate, but that has fallen on deaf ears.

We made a fun trip up to Cloverdale this week to see The Exec and his partner.  They treated us to some free wine tasting via their memberships at Mazzocco and another joint I forgot the name of.  The Mazzocco Zins were killer, and we took advantage of their 20% discount to pick up a couple bottles. We had dinner at Catelli’s in Geyserville. Our waiter is in the running for the “Most Arm Tats Possible” award. We spent the night at their lovely home in a 55+ community.  I was almost denied entry due to my youthful mien. They provided a tasty French toast and bacon breakfast before sending us on our way Thursday morning.  We made a stop in Santa Rosa on the way home to get some shower flowers.

I’ve saved a few recent headlines to share with you along with my reaction to each.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/24/spain-exhumes-the-body-of-fascist-leader-primo-de-rivera

And in other news, Francisco Franco is still dead.

https://www.nme.com/features/music-interviews/suga-bts-d-day-interview-agust-d-3434549

Wiser words were never spoken.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanschocket2/patti-lupone-kim-k-american-horror-story

I’m on team Patti.

I’ll close with a little celeb news.  Sofia Richie recently got married. I’m happy for her, but I’m a little pissed about the $2,500 Lalique panther statue she received as a gift.  I had planned on getting that for the couple at this coming weekend’s nuptials.  Now they’ll have to settle for something my wife picks out.