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...

 Since Trump infected our lives ten-some years ago, billionaires have come out of the woodwork. Not sure if they were always there or if they or if they were a result of all these bubbles of tech and dot.coms and whatever people who aren't me fall into. It seems like I hear about new ones every day and this is because they are all assholes who made easy money and now want to control the world. Well, here's the thing about that: None of these fucks are qualified to run the whole earth show, and they are all playing each other thinking that they are working together- with fucking Trump(!!)- to facilitate this. Did they not learn anything about people on their way up the ladder? Did they not learn about themselves?  There was a guy in one of the bars I worked at, who was an alleged millionaire. I do not recall his name, what he looked like or what his business was. This is because he meant nothing to me. I didn't fucking like him. He was not friendly and he did not tip. I say ...

 Found another very good network show that fell victim to poor ratings. "Prime Suspect", starring the lovely and talented Maria Bello, lasted one season on NBC, back in 2011. I don't recall if I ever saw even an episode back then- maybe- as I am longtime fan of Maria Bello. She's a crush- OK??!! She's NOT my girlfriend! Yeesh! Anyway, perhaps viewers saw it (or didn't see it) as typical gritty NYPD cop drama. IMDb critics gave it a 7.3 on their Richter scale and I would go along with that rank myself. The show had an excellent cast including names you may have heard of like Kirk Acevedo, Brian F. O'Byrne and Aidan Quinn, along with familiar unknown faces as supporting cast. Acting truly is a team effort, and all involved put in the necessary good work each episode. It is always a pleasure to see good actors plying their craft. No one drags the show down.  Detective Jane Timoney doesn't have the usual TV cop baggage of a drug or drinking problem, or a b...

 I wish I had a camera in my bedroom. Get your mind out of the gutter! We covered my vague attempt at a porn career in New Orleans many posts here back, so it's not about me and extremely blonde Susan. This is much more innocent than that, though it does wind up with a woman being quite pleased.  The time change has messed me up again. I don't know why we do that twice a year. The worst one is the Spring switch (now) where we scoot ahead an hour for some dumb reason. I nap nearly every afternoon because I'm retired and I only get like six hours of sleep at night and I stay up kinda late because, why not? Thus, I get up kinda early. So, to get my constitutionally mandated eight hours, I try to pick up two in the afternoon. I rarely have trouble going to sleep, but the struggle is real in getting that eight in a row like most people. Many people? I don't know. So today my nap was kinda late by this past Saturday's standards, but I did that trick people do at time chan...

 I was a young kid in the 60's, but I well remember the anti-war protests. The Vietnam war protests were in all the papers, on TV every night and in the streets all over America. It was an unpopular war for a myriad of reasons, but the drafting of young men might have been the bigliest  detraction. Vietnam wasn't a World War where our very existence was threatened by a madman in Europe and one in Japan, as well. It was an unnecessary political war; business for the Military Industrial Complex, disguised as the patriotic salvation of democracy from the evils of communism. The draft lottery to me seemed as cruel and unusual as "The Lottery" in the great Shirley Jackson short story of the same name. Your number came up; you were gone.  You might survive the Vietnam draft lottery- your individual death wasn't the  point- and you had some options to avoid being shipped out, but those options were not available to all. If your daddy was rich a doctor could write a note ...

Last night I posted a couple of still-interesting videos by a guy on YouTube named Chase Hughes. They were both basically about how you and I shouldn't fall for this left v. right crap that the Epstein Class wants so badly for us to fall for. It was pretty good stuff, but nothing I hadn't figured out myself years ago. So, it was a well-presented reaffirmation of what I already knew and what you can see on sites like Bluesky every day, from thousands of people. A billionaire run society wants to keep you barefoot and pregnant for their own fun and profit. Duh. The media is in on it as are both parties in the US. Again, Duh. I don't know if any of my few followers  bothered to watch the two videos or not. No likes or comments. That's fine. Both were good messages, imploring people to stop and think about the other side - particularly in politics- and don't judge them too harshly or condemn them because they aren't as smart or well-informed as you are. We really ar...

 Jimmy K. was a bartender I worked with back-in-the-day who often described himself as "Your worst nightmare- a hippie with a job!!" He was very quotable. We would be scoping out the bar for good looking girls, and we'd agree on one and he would say to me, "Could you imagine her in a leather Nazi cheerleading outfit?" And I could! Jimmy was my age and quite well known locally but we had gone to different schools together yet managed to have a lot of mutual acquaintances. He had worked at a convenience store owned by his uncle and I sorta knew him from there, but just well enough to think I didn't want to work the bar with him. Younger Ferrerman was pretty tolerant of oddballs though, so I just rolled with it and him. He was a very serious Cubs fan and that goes a long way with me.  It turned out to be a lot of fun working with him. Though a libertarian (nothing more than a republican who smokes weed according to me, and an assessment that he liked very much)...

Well, I don't know what happened in yesterday's post here to piss off the go-ogle people and I don't really care. Seems like one of those bad wife/girlfriend things where, she's mad and you have to guess why, because: "If you don't KNOW , I'm certainly not going to tell you!" That's never productive. Anyways, let's move on.  The past couple of days I have seen reports that some commanders in all branches of our military, are telling their troops that this current Iran war is Biblical. They believe that Trump has been anointed by Jesus to destroy the Middle East to facilitate the return of Jesus, as apparently laid out in the Bible. I'm confused because I had always heard that it was the destruction of ISRAEL  that was supposed to make this happen. That always seemed a bit specific, but now they are talking the whole region where we have been fighting wars for a few decades now. The Bible itself has long been wide-open to interpretation, so ...

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Whether he was chosen by God, the Devil or just 77 million fucking idiots, it is clear that Donald Jan Trump has a mandate from somebody  to destroy America. He is well into it.  This destruction might be a good thing though. It might be the only way America can improve.  Let's pretend that later this year in November the midterms go on without any fuckery from Trump, who comes right out and says he wants to nationalize the elections. No more of this state stuff like the Constitution delineates. Typically, the party in power might lose seats in the midterms as voters express their dissatisfaction with the White House. In a fair election Trump would get trounced by voters- including his own- because he has managed to disappoint most everyone. This happens when you are a criminal, pedophile president like nobody has ever seen before.  Trump may settle for simply having ICE and/or National Guard troops posted at select polling places to intimidate liberal voters. There ...

 We all know that a lot of women love bad boys. It's been this way since the caveman days when Aga saw Grog bonk Thag on the head and take his brontosaurus burger. She knew Grog was a man who took whatever he wanted. He could take her! He was so cavemanly! Women prefer dangerous men, that other men fear. It really gets their ladywood wet! Right? Yeah- to an extent. I mean, if there's one thing that the world has learned over the eons, it is that people are not all the same. I remember reading as a kid that there were 12 types of people (I think) on earth. This was decades ago, so of course I can't delineate what those 12 types are, but you can probably figure it out yourself based on your own observations in life. Have you ever noticed you keep meeting the same people over and over again in life? Your friends and lovers may fit a certain type. You may or may not consciously recognize it. You may or may not voice it, to yourself or anyone. The rules of attraction are quite f...