Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Monday, November 11, 2024
Decency Lost
Like eight years ago, I’m stunned and saddened by the results of our presidential election. There are almost 75 million Americans who see Donald Trump in a completely different light than I do. I’ve read a few of the post-mortems but have been staying away from the news for the most part. I can’t explain it and I don’t think the pundits can do so satisfactorily either.
I’m sure I’ll have a few things to say in the future, but for now I’m going to bury my head in the sand and keep up with People magazine. My last political comment concerns troglodytes like Newt Gingrich and Jesse Watters. They were up in arms at the thought of a woman voting differently from their husband. I consider myself more enlightened. My wife and I were on different sides of the Foster City business license tax on the ballot and we’re still madly in love.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
ZOOM
We have a weekly Zoom call with the FC boys that started during COVID. I have not been on for quite a while, so I plan to join tonight. It will be a good opportunity for the guys to spend some time with me. #1 and the newly surgically repaired TCG will be there. TCG had his shoulder fixed. Word on the street is he’d been spending too much time shaking hands with the mayor. I may not be at my best for this call, because I’m still struggling with that Salma Hayek / Nicole Kidman dust-up from a few weeks back.
I’ve seen a few articles about celebrities that have relationship rules. Given the life span of those relationships, there must be a lot of rule breaking going on. The only one in my relationship is do everything she says, like pick me up at the international terminal when I return from the Turkey trip that I dumped you for and make sure dinner is ready.
The busy social calendar continues. We went to see The Exec and his Beloved1 in Cloverdale last Thursday. We met at Trentadue Winery and tasted several of their offerings. We bought a bottle of Montepulciano and a Cuvee 32. Trentadue means 32 in Italian, but you already knew that. The locals apparently call it Trentadoo, which pains me. After our winery experience, we had a great dinner at their house, which included several fine wines, far better than the plonk we usually drink. We spent the night and stopped in Santa Rosa the next morning to have coffee with Mr. and Mrs. Poughkeepsie Kid. He was my boss back in the '80s. They had just come back from their Hudson Valley trip for his 50th high school reunion.
That’s not all folks. Saturday night we hosted Unc and Mashie for dinner. My creative wife found a new recipe for roast chicken with sage butter. She ended up misplacing the recipe a few times, I’m not sure how, but found it in time for dinner. It was a gustatory delight. We shared the Montepulciano and had Mashie’s knockout dessert.
I hear there is an election coming up. The Trump team made a strong effort to reach out for the Puerto Rican vote at their MSG rally, which was modeled on the 1939 Bund rally. Same shit, different day. My wife and I mailed our ballots yesterday. I’m going to let the cat out of the bag. We voted for Kamala. Now I just have to bite my nails for the next 10 days or so.
Here’s this week’s money-making picks.
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Thursday, October 24, 2024
Postscript
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
NO CATERWAULING??
Thursday, September 12, 2024
You Deserve a Post Today
Today marks two weeks since my surgery. I have not had much desire to write, but then I realized that my readership has been having a tough time too, not having access to my bon mots for over two weeks.
I’m doing pretty well. The wife trots me out every morning for my ten-minute walk up the block and back. We ran into the Banker doing his constitutional earlier this week. He moves better than I do. In the afternoon I do my walk inside, which is quite exciting. I pop Advil a couple times a day, which is all that is required. Arising from a chair is a lot easier than it was and I even went out for dinner last night for the first time. I employed the cane for that. OK, that’s my medical report.
How about you guys? Are your pets safe?
Wow, that was quite a debate Tuesday. Kamala baited the hook and Donnie Darko jumped at it. I would have total contempt for the guy if he wasn’t a leader in fertilization. Even a lot of Republicans, like Frank Luntz, said he shit the bed. Hopefully he will be out of public life and in the slam in 2025. I can dream.
To my chagrin, I missed the VMAs last night. You can catch all the looks below. Some people, like Addison Rae, were wearing their underwear. Remind me why she’s famous again. I’m clearly getting old because several of these people I’ve never heard of. My celeb knowledge has its limits. Lil Nas X stopped by on his way to join Elon for the next SpaceX launch. My main disappointment was that JLo did not show up in her revenge dress.
https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/mtv-vmas-2024-red-carpet
OK people, the new NFL season is upon us. I went 14 for 16 last week, which put me in a seven-way tie for 2nd place. I plan to move into first this week with these sterling picks.
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Friday, August 23, 2024
DJ on Substack?
I've been talking to SB1 and #1 about the possibility of migrating my blog to Substack. It is apparently easy enough that even I could do it. This would let me widen my audience, allowing people to join up via email. Conversely, it could allow people to treat it like the spam that it is.
We had a good time in NJ. I managed to keep my pants up the rest of the trip. Sonny Boy wheeled me around the beach on one of these. Mine even had an umbrella.
We also had a regular wheelchair. The six older adults went out for dinner one night. Afterward, my brother-in-law dumped me on the sidewalk when he was rolling me home. I’ve never quite understood the ill feelings he has harbored for me all these years. I treat his sister like a queen.
The DNC was lit. It is interesting the enthusiasm that can be generated when there are two decent human beings on the ticket. I just wish Kamala was as good looking as Trump. We’ve taped the whole thing. I’ll have to fast forward to the part where Beyonce shows up. I have not watched much but have done a little reading, especially Charles P. Pierce in Esquire. I sometimes send his stuff to Unc and the Wolv. That’s probably a violation of some law, but I like to live on the edge.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a61956817/kamala-harris-dnc-acceptance-speech/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_esq&utm_medium=email&date=082324&utm_campaign=nl36507739&GID=a299db311496f415a2e5ca233c02f2a5e378f94bdef396e576bc2d0f6c84dcbd&OO=&utm_term=TEST-%20NEW%20TEST%20-%20Sending%20List%20-%20AM%20180D%20Clicks%2C%20NON%20AM%2090D%20Opens%2C%20Both%20Subbed%20Last%2030DFox News had a different take. Hannity said the DNC’s theme was hatred and loathing. I really didn’t get that vibe on the parts I saw. They may find Trump hateful and loathsome, but that would just make them objective. Jesse Waters referred to the convention as boring. I have the same take on Jesse as the Slate writer who titled his May article "The Resting Smirk of the Bulletproof Moron". Ultimately Fox had to cut off a ranting Trump on the final night of the DNC. “He’s still talking”.
I think one could say it’s been tough on all of us.
My surgery is coming up Thursday so there may be a blog void for a bit. Or I might live blog my recovery. I’ll send a status update out via email asap afterward, possibly in an opiate induced haze.