AfterPunk

  From left to right, they’re the Director and Chief Operating Officer. What Cheatle has to say about her priorities. What else do we know about the Director? What Wiki Says: FYI, this WIKIE entry has been tweaked a couple of times just since yesterday. Digging deeper, I went back to the time of her being named to the position and discovered an edit deemphasizing her education.given her talk about diversity in hiring, I was curious about her college major… Criminal Justice? Forensic Science? Public Administration? No.  The most popular course of study for  DEI executives since the Woke era began. NOT a red flag? Maybe so, maybe not, but there are legitimate questions about how she got this job and what she has done as director. During her tenure assistant director of Protective Operations under Obama, she was assigned to the Vice Presidential Protective Division. Was this an appointment made by the first ever female Director of the Secret Service, Julia Pierson (2013-2014...

It’s my  birthday today. I am 71. My wife thinks that‘s not so old. I think it is. Let’s put it in terms everyone can understand. Where I’ve been, who and what I’ve seen and done. Not up to this honestly. It’s all really huge or just lists… forget about it. Battlefields : Valley Forge, the Battle of Trenton, Fredericksburg, the Wilderness (including the deathbed of Stonewall), Ford‘s Theater, the Cemeteries of Normandy, the dedication at Wright-Pat of my Dad’s 12th Air Force Fighter Group (including my Dad’s P-47), the Revolutionary War Skirmish at Quinton’s Bridge, where my home town saved the day by protecting Mad Anthony Wayne from the Queen’s Rangers. I organized the reenactment. Places I’ve been: [Never mind. You’d break your thumbs in the scrolling.] Things I’ve driven: [Too long a list. You wouldn’t believe it anyway.] Celebrity Sightings : five Stones concerts, Frank Sinatra on the lawn in Cincinnati. Tom Waits at the Academy of Music, Cats and Phantom on Broadway. And the...

 Quick but final…Why we need both of us to survive and prosper…

  Old now,  getting very old. Yeah. Privilege. Like any of you would know what that means. Yeah, he was the one everyone wanted to  be.  I was the only one left when he died. All those Hine weddings. When glamor isjust sad… Painting by Alex Lee. Still have it. You have 5K? I missed the ‘52 war. Not the ‘60 war over Nixon. Aren’t you something? Real life… When you hear me laugh, that’s Boppa. His laugh. When I lost my fear and acquired sociopaths as friends. Yeah. Korean doctor. Hospital ship. Told me I was brave. Guess I skipped the part about how he stitched my face.

  She thinks I should just drop all the writing shit. “You said it all already. Fuck’em.”  Know you don’t get it. I’m way way out there. All the crap Hemingway wrote about detecting one glass of wine in a writer’s voice, bullshit. Fitzgerald pretended too. When you’re like us, we write soused and lie about it.   I don’t write at all anymore except under the influence. It’s a way out of the humdrum. Where everyone lives every day is useless and dim. Why I was never able to become a “friend of Bill’.” Who was an asshole. (Felon and confidence man too btw)   We all know it hurts the ones who care about us. But the writing is the thing. What the loved ones never get. The ones who aren’t relatives of Faulkner, Cheever, or Dylan Thomas.    I’m way way  way  out there. After The Boomer Bible, Shuteye Town, and The Naked Woman where would you expect me to go?   Dulled myself down to write all the blogs. Sober is a thing I do to get along with others....

  Wasn’t David Geffen a world renowned scholar in his day? Of course he was: His philanthropic entry into the medical field did eventually run into a few problems. Nothing that can’t be fixed though. You may already be guessing the particular kind of ingenuity that might be brought to bear in some other state. There’s more… I wouldn’t dare tell you where I acquired this information. My personal community standards wouldn’t permit it. I suppose you’re on your own about what to infer from the above.

  Don’t judge a book by its hair color. The roots go a long way back, but the tradition somehow endures that blonde women are different. Whether it’s because of Marilyn Monroe, Judy Holliday, Sally Struthers, the Wayne Sisters on the Johnny Carson show, or all of the above, most of us have grown up with the stereotype of the ditzy blonde firmly embedded in the backs of our minds. We’ve been taught not to look to them for high intelligence or clearsighted vision of the future. Now, in our new progressive era, we finally have a chance to overturn that worn out cliché and see blondes as better than ditzy to some degree. Take the MSNBC Queen of Democrat optimism, Joy Reid. She has proven herself capable of seeing what no one else can see.  When others were spinning an opposite line, she recognized with eloquent passion that the Trump speech in the Bronx was an even worse bomb than every recent Disney movie: Every word drips with sneering contempt for the real dumb blond on the sce...

  Unretouched in any way May not be here much longer. 5’ 9” and when last I weighed me, 123 lbs. And not hungry. Not a strike, just an end to appetite of all kinds. I can barely walk. My knees and feet died years ago — too many corporate miles of airport transitways, concrete floors strode in cowboy boots (my bad…), and motorcycle spills. Yes, I still find a way to tipple. The only vice left to me, and the most well meaning in my circle want to take that away too. Without that, though, you wouldn’t have even this.  So how did I screw up literature and change the terrain for every writer after me? I invented AI writing software 30 years ago and pissed on all the conventions of fiction in existence at the time. Yeah. Actually wrote a system description in accepted McGraw-Hill format. From there it was easy to put a pistol to the head of all the lions of modern fiction. The software could copy them all because they had nothing to say. They were their own AI, repeating, repeating,...