FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

 I'm having internet trouble- or am I? I'm not getting Bluesky or Facebook to load. I've got Google, Pornhub, Yahoo- everything fires right up but FB and BS. Could it be possible for one Ferrerman to be sanctioned by both sites at the same time? Why would anyone in their right mind do such an evil deed? It makes no sense. I looked around on Yahoo to see if I had received any official word from either site about any nefarious deeds I might be accused of perpetrating, but nothing of the sort. Maybe they don't bother with formalities anymore? Until (possibly) I've never been sanctioned by Bluesky, and it's been several years since FB dropped the hammer on me for their cheap shit. I probably don't know anybody in the yard there anymore.  I can't figure this out. Why just those two big and semi-big sites both go out for me at the same time? To my knowledge they are not related to each other in anyway. BS went first and then I was on FB long enough to check a ...

 Watched a couple episodes of the COPS show. BITD it was sometimes interesting. You'd see people getting caught doing something illegal on the worst day of their lives (so far...) and you had the opportunity to either have empathy for them as to how they wound up in their predicament or laugh at their stupidity. Though there was a disclaimer about all suspects being innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, you pretty much knew everyone was guilty. Why else would they be on TV? The cops were handpicked by their departments for being the best, most proactive men and women on the force. This pretty much assures there won't be unnecessary beatings and/or shootings that would have to be edited out. The show does kind of leave you with the feeling that all cops are virtuous and stalwart folks, who live to serve.  But if you know cops, you know that's not true of all. There's that 10-80-10 stat that, while not specific to cops, seems to fit really well. It's applica...

 What a surprise. Another familiar face and name came up on my FB page. This was a good one, a guy named Pete (which is an awesome name, BTW) whom I met way back in the day when he was bouncing where I tended bar. More so than most Pete's I can think of, this Pete was super nice and quite friendly until it was time to be not quite so friendly. I was never able to watch, but he used to appear in karate tournaments in the early days of ESPN. I'm sure he was good, though I never even saw him have to fight a belligerent drunk. He handled things well.  So, I looked to see who else he might have in fold from the old days. One name came to mind. Cornlips. That wasn't her real name, but it was close to that. Her last name was different too, but that is usually explained by marriage, or on the lam from the law. There were no personal photos of her, but how many Cornlips could there be that also knew my friend Pete? I'm gonna say, one.  Cornlips tended bar with me. She was an odd...

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...

Though quite obviously a Ferrerman, I'm actually half-woman. That's on my mother's side.  I stole that from comedian, Jena Friedman.  Check her out on YouTube. VERY funny and woke. I like her delivery.  It's weird because I always thought of myself as 'woke' even before the word came into common usage and vilified by republicans. With a mom and four sisters, I knew early on that women were different and needed to be treated different and protected by us fellas, and from us fellas. Back when I was tending bar, I created the Waitress Protection Program (WPP) because I knew that our girls often had difficult exes looking to give them trouble. On top of that, they were walking out to their cars with like a hundred dollars in cash any given night. And it was optional as we were available on request. Though we worked in a nice, west suburb of Chicago, crime can happen anywhere, anytime. Women probably know that more than men. They have to be alert for rapists. Like, a...

 This might sound odd coming from a guy whose favorite team just went down in two in the NL Wild Card playoffs, but I like the WC format. There are two ways to get a slot in the WC in MLB. You earn it by coming on strong at the end of the long-ass season like the San Diego Padres did, or you default to it like my Chicago Cubs did by floundering at the end, defaulting to wins and losses. All through September it was a given that the Cubs had the WC in the NL Central Division. Their mission was to play for the best record and attain homefield advantage against their opponent. That's big. That's what the Padres fought for and that's what they got. The team with the better record gets all three games in front of the home folks. In any sport that's gold. Home cookin'! Everybody wants it. It helps.  I didn't expect a lot from the Cubs back in Spring Training. Two of our star pitchers were hurt and out for the season. That's tough on any team. You don't make pl...

Rich people are odd ducks. Money means everything to them, yet it also means nothing. They pay big money to congress to save on taxes, mostly I think because they can, and they like the pride of ownership that they get with congresspersons in their pockets. I recall hearing that in 1860 before the Civil War began there were more millionaires in Vicksburg, Mississippi than in New York City. This, of course, was because payroll was non-existent in their ledgers because they owned the people that were making them wealthy. It has always seemed to me that, instead of frequent tax cuts for the wealthy, really good accountants would be cheaper than congresspersons. But I'm poor, and that may be why. I worked at a restaurant/bar in Chicago's South Loop where 4 or 5 guys were partners in the venture. None of them had restaurant backgrounds. One, Curtis, was a big-time tax attorney. Closing out my register one night, my till was 1 penny short.  Curtis looked at me and said, "Well......

They drag me back in... Well, I was NOT  licking my wounds and drowning my hurt fee fees after this site's unexplained ambush of my last post. I actually had to come out of retirement and beautify this town a little. My landlord remembered I was a retired painter and asked if I'd be interested in doing a few small jobs for him. Of course, I wasn't  but he's a nice guy and it's always a good idea to keep the landlord happy, so I didn't hesitate to say yes. I find him to be very agreeable, and he encouraged me to take my time and work at my own pace. No pressure.  I don't remember the last time I had a decent nap! That fucks me up. I spent a couple decades getting up early to enjoy my mornings before making a 7 am start somewhere in Tennessee or Illinois, but being as there was no pressure, a noon start was fine. Not a one of these 'jobsites' was more than 4 minutes away! Small town life. The last one is right outside my door. It's good to know I c...

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 I hate it when something goes wrong and you have done two or three things new or different about the same time, and it's that much harder to pin down the cause. It becomes a sort of chicken or egg thing.  The laptop is behaving strangely. I think it's heading up on two years' service to me, but I also recently got Norton anti-virus protection. Is one or the other wrong, or both maybe? This laptop is a Lenovo I bought one Sunday morning when whatever I had at the time went belly up. It seems a year of service is about all I can expect from a laptop. What with planned obsolescence being the foundation of capitalism, I'm probably right. I remember going to Best Buy years ago to get my first laptop and telling the kid there that I had very rudimentary skills and needs to match as far as a computer went, so I didn't want to spend a lot because I didn't plan on performing any computery stunts; just Facebook and maybe that Twitter thing and possibly doing a little wri...

Trump is a salesman. Not a very good one, but his skillset screams of the used car huckster he would have been in life if he had not been born into wealth. Think of a guy like a Herb Tarlick from WKRP in Cincinnati with his garish suits. You want people to notice and remember you. They may not remember your name, but they will  remember the plaid sportscoat and green pants. Trump's the worst dancer this side of Elaine Benes, but he regularly breaks out into his double-jerk off dance to the Village People's "YMCA". He must know it's a gay anthem. He must not care. It's his song and his dance. He does like to co-opt things.  No doubt Trump is the least presidential of all presidents ever. He had zero political bonafides, never having been elected to any office. Spin is everything in politics and this was made to look like a strength rather than a weakness. The republicans had been pushing the need for a businessman in the White House; someone who understood spen...

 Last night I went down a YouTube rabbit hole of videos about how Canada is not the land of Storybook Gardens I thought it was when I was 12 years old. It's not. In fact, Storybook Gardens is closed! Well, that's just for the season. It'll open again for skating and other snow-filled fun when it gets down Celsius enough for that stuff. But Storybook Gardens was all I really knew about Canada (except for hockey and SCTV) for most of my life until recently when Trump got ugly with them and decided to make them great again by further denigrating America. I really thought they were just like us, but without guns. I was pretty much right about that and- no spoiler alert- I'm still right about that. It's just that I learned last night that Canada really doesn't have the Trump-given right to be so smug about themselves as I thought before I hit the rack last night. They're a little fucked up too. And unfortunately for them, they don't have a Trump to point to a...

Bestiality is in the news this week, but for the oddest reason, one that you'd never imagine. No senator from farm country got caught with his 'mistress' as you might assume. It wasn't even anything related to Epstein's Zorro ranch in New Mexico where you might guess that the purpose of which might have been to supply the world's wealthy freaks with nubile young sheep and goats to satisfy their aberrant sexual cravings. No, nothing like that. Evidently, FBI Director, Kash Patel, wants to relax FBI agent entrance standards to allow for bestiality in a prospective agent's past- as long as it was "forced". YIKES- but how prevalent among applicants could that be, just amongst the FBI wannabes?  Congress wanted to know, so they asked him. This Trump administration has long since stopped being funny, but they still seem to be trying. How the fuck could this be an issue for public discourse? Patel is one of the more ridiculous people holding a powerful po...

On September 11, 2001, I was leading a crew of Ratmo painters in the remodeling of the 6th floor of The Ridgeway Hotel, in Memphis Tn. It was Tuesday and we were in good shape, having until that Friday to finish the job. The powers that be were debating whether to remodel all six floors or tear it down and rebuild from scratch.  I think it was heading up on breaktime when one of my guys told me to look at the TV because a plane had hit a building in New York City. I remember assuming that it was probably a small plane, likely tragic pilot error. How else could that happen?  With televisions on in every room, we watched the drama unfold in real-time while we went about our work. We soon learned it was an airliner that hit the World Trade Center; The Twin Towers. How the fuck does that happen? Who makes a mistake like that? What a tragic accident!  Then the second plane hit the second tower. This was no accident. We were watching a nightmare unfold. Soon the bosses came in ...

 Allow me to explain the vast difference between a democratic form of government and a republic. It may take a while. Might blow some minds. Here we go: "Democracy is government where the people decide laws and leadership directly or through participation, while a republic is government where power rests with the people but is exercised through elected representatives. In the modern United States , it’s accurate to say it is both." Huh. Sounds like looking at identical twins to see which one is prettiest. If I had to choose which system we have here in the US, I would say it's a republic, and according to most all the experts I'd be right. YAY! A democracy sounds a bit more hands on perhaps, but a republic sounds just as busy, but without all the personal involvement of every damn citizen, all the damn time. You don't have to vote on every fucking thing. That is up to the representatives in both systems ultimately anyways. So, same thing; not really different, ...