FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

Damn. Terry Bradshaw. Who knew? People will  surprise you. I've always thought Terry was likeable guy. He was certainly a great quarterback of his day. He has had a long career as a NFL analyst on CBS. Now, truth be told, I don't watch a lot of pre- and post-game shows of any sport. I'm a play the fucking game  kind of guy. We'll see who is going to win and I trust myself to figure out why one team lost. I don't need a panel of experts looking like CNN or FOX to edumacate me about the game. Terry is often comic relief on their NFL show as he is very countrified, homespun and all that. I never thought he was stupid although they long said of him that he couldn't spell "cat" if you spotted him the c and the a. That's just jocularity. Like a lot of southerners, he plays up his background for fun and profit. Look at Senator Wrong John Kennedy of Louisiana. He went to Oxford (not the one in Mississippi) and spoke like it when he was a democrat years ago...

 We know from the thousand or so clips from The Good Liars and Jordon Klepper, that there is a BIGLY number of insane and ridiculously loyal Maga persons out there. They do exist. They are  serious about their love and devotion for him. They would not  be happy were he to be impeached or even pass from natural causes. But are they dangerous to America?  I can't see how they are. Nearly every last one of them is past middle age, overweight and stupid. How dangerous could they be? I don't care how many guns they may have in the trailer back home; these are not warriors. These are stupid, gullible people with nothing better to do in life than live for the next Trump rally. They are in their own world where Trump is just short of being God himself, and they like that world very much. It is their Easy Button. They know scant little about what is really going on in politics and the world, only what they are told. Trump and Putin are strong and working together to make Amer...

 I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that Facebook is a 3rd world shithole of a site and that I, and millions of others, wish that there was a site like Facebook that wasn't like Facebook.  With that out of the way, I'll tell you that I found another friend on FB! Or did I? I was on a paint thread when I noticed the name of a guy I worked with in Memphis years ago. Mikey was alright. I had actually found his page a few years ago and was pleased to see that he had gone out on his own and into business for himself. He seemed to be doing OK. Now, I could have tried to friend him back then, but I have to say that our friendship was never that serious where we'd need to keep in touch like that. I could say that about hundreds of people I've worked with. My FB is mostly family- siblings and cousins that I've known all my life, with a few schoolmates and a few women who know other family members and like my posting. Also, several deceased family members that I just c...

Though happily retired, I've been doing some painting lately. The landlord asked me several weeks back if I'd be interested in doing some maintenance-type painting. It's always a good idea to keep the landlord happy, so I said yes. He assured me that there was no pressure to accept nor to hurry through the jobs should I accept. I'm pretty damn good at it so I didn't run the risk of screwing anything up and jeopardizing my welcome here. Everything was outside too, the garage doors of rental properties he has in town. Nothing was more than two minutes away from my home! Why not?  I finished up the garage doors last month. They were pretty rough. In fact, as I drive the streets here, I see a lot of sorry looking garages, and I amuse myself by wondering if Tom owns those properties. The reality is that a lot of people let their garages go because, why spend the money? That's where you store the junk that won't fit in the basement. Maybe you put a car in there. T...

 Inspired by my muse, Maggie, I went down a Facebook rabbit hole on the slim chance that I might find my old republican friend Paul. I don't think Facebook had been invented yet when I last heard from him in 2008, and I seriously doubted that he would be on it, but you never know about people. The key for me in finding people on FB is to begin by looking for known acquaintances that you know  are on FB and seeing if they continued their relationship there. In 2009, everybody was on FB, at least for a hot minute until they figured out that they hated it. I quickly found two good suspects- Glenn and Frank- whom Paul and I had worked with that he may have friended. No go though. Found some other miscreants that I knew back in the day, including the horrible lesbian I had worked with in Memphis and a guy I thought might have been fucking the ex-wife back then. How the hell did Frank know those two?? The lesbian is stories for another day, and the guy is very unimportant to any sto...

 This has stayed with me for decades, and I wasn't sure why until now. Robert Moore was a soft, chubby, bespectacled kid in my third-grade class, who started to cry one day. He was a fat kid by 1960's standards, which wasn't very. Our teacher, Miss Kozak, was an awful person. Matronly, you would think she had it together as a teacher, given her age and experience, but you would be wrong. She ate yogurt all day in class while us kids weren't even allowed to chew gum. Worse, she'd blow her nose and stuff her snot rags up her sleeve for later use. She was a Nazi. Decades later on my town's Facebook sites, dozens of former students would agree with me. So, it wasn't just me.  She asked Robert why he was crying. Sobbing, he reluctantly confessed that that morning there hadn't been any milk for his cereal that morning.  THAT was it?! I think most of the class thought the same thing. What a loser! Frau Kozak went in for the kill because that's what Nazi bit...