FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

 Well, except me. I'm not going to say I feel so all alone though. Marijuana has been a major factor in the demise of both my marriages though and, for a guy who pretty much  thinks people ought to be free to partake in anything that helps them get through the day, I still believe all things in moderation. Not everybody does. I came up in the 70's when the rock was still hard and the drugs were soft. I partook my share- and fairly liked it- but noticed early on that pot was not the social drug for me that it seemed to be for most of my peers. I hate to label myself with psychobabble, but I am- admittedly- an introvert. I just don't wear it as a nametag. Already quiet by nature, weed made me more quiet and often paranoid. That's not a good way to be if you are me. I haven't even been drunk in 18 years and that's not some landmark of sobriety to be announced to a gathering of strangers at an AA meeting. Getting wasted was rarely my goal when I cracked that first b...

FULL DISCLOSURE: I didn't attend the "NO KINGS" rally in my little town, this past Saturday. There's been several in my time here and I did go to one last Fall and enjoyed it enough, but not enough to make it a habit. And more disclosure: some of them happened without my knowledge. I learned of them after the fact when local yokels were mocking them on the various local news sites on Facebook. Truth be told, my jam is fucking with those reprobates. It's almost always punching down- something I'm largely against- but it often needs to be done.  It is a big deal when a couple hundred people in a small midwestern town show up for a protest like the "NO KINGS". Though Illinois is a blue state, once you get out of the population of Chicago and the suburbs, you are in the country. This is true of big cities anywhere in the United States. Except for sports teams, there is very little identification with the big city one's state might be known for. In th...

 Saw a video- on Facebook, probably- of an ex-con relating the bathroom etiquette that was evidently in place at whatever prison he called home. This was first laid out to him by his cellmate, for the toilet they  shared in their cell. He was told he needed to kneel to pee.  Do what now??!! He was a pretty big boy himself, and his cellmate was a tough talking Crip or Blood, but he had to wonder if he was being punked. Everybody has heard the probably not-apocryphal story of Big Bubba telling his weaker cellie that he was his bitch and could only pee sitting down, ala the women. So, this fella was ready to rumble. However, the guy was not messing with him, and it was common practice where they were doing their time. He held it in rather than kneel and left to network with the other neighbors. Turned out to be true. Well, according to this guy being interviewed. Though you should never read the comments on Facebook, I did, and they were funny and all over the place as per u...

 Well, congrats to Venezuela for winning the World Baseball Classic. I didn't watch because I don't have that level of Fox in my TV lineup. I've got Fox Sports, which you'd think would be enough, but it's never enough. The networks always leave you wanting- and paying- for more. New Cub, Daniel Palencia, pitched the 9th for his country and that pleases me. It should be a good year for him.  Today is corned beef day for me. This is because I dicked around and didn't get the potatoes and carrots until yesterday evening. I also picked up a small head of cabbage that I paid too much for. I'm OK with cabbage, but I could live without it. The young man at the fancy grocery store looked at it and asked me if it was lettuce. I told him it was cabbage but said he could ring it as lettuce- "whichever's cheaper". He laughed. He said, "We don't get many ferrermen in here." To wit I replied, "Not at these prices..." I love corned bee...

 Been watching "Lioness" on Paramount, with Zoe Saldaña. (<---Did you catch the ñ there? I know what I'm doing.) It's got all the elements necessary to keep a Ferrerman interested in a show. These include violence, coarse language and female nudity, not necessarily in that order. It seems all the current shows have trigger warnings to alert people of the three mentioned above plus smoking and flashing lights- anything that might upset anyone  for some reason. That's one way of looking at it, but another might be that it's to alert viewers like me to the goodies available in an episode. I like all of the above, though I have to admit flashing lights are extremely annoying. I'm not subject to seizures, but I bet I could be if exposed long enough. Worked with a guy we called "Morphine Joe" years back who shared with us that him and his two boys checked out Japanese anime because someone had told him the flashing lights could cause seizures. MJ wa...

 Saw a really good REEL last night and I may post it here if I can figure out how. I'm only semi-computer literate, and I'm man enough to admit it. I'm easily thwarted by the bullshit of the google protocols where, signed in as I am right here, right now because I'm pretty fucking obviously writing this fucking post , they want me to sign in afuckingain to link the video. That would require me to remember the password, and as a very fallible Ferrerman, I ain't gonna do that shit and they can't make me. But maybe I'll find a workaround because that's what us fellas do.  Do women really know us fellas? Have they ever walked in our shoes? The late writer, Norah Vincent did. She spent a year as a man, and it so devastated her that she checked into a psychiatric hospital afterwards. She wrote a book titled, "The Self-Made Man" about that year. I have yet to read it, but I got a pretty good gist of it from the REEL.  It wasn't a whiny plea like w...