FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

 I found a letter years ago. It wasn't to me, but I had good reason to think it might concern me in some way. I read it.  The letter writer was Mike Broppy. The recipient was my former friend, Drew Dandy. I had long suspected those two (as Bubba Keppler use to say down south) "were homos together". I braced myself for some shocking revelations of man-on-man  debauchery.  WHEW! That was not part of the program in this correspondence. It turned out to be Broppy inviting Drew and my then wife, to spend the weekend with him at his college. I have to say that seemed even weirder than a gay love angle. Laura was married to me, and I wasn't even invited! That was rude.  I remembered that weekend. Laura told me she was going to visit her brother, Nicky, at college. Fine. I was working. Have fun.  What has stayed with me all these years was the no mention of me. The trysting was bad, but you get over shit like that once the smoke clears and you count up blessings. B...

 I consider all my neighbors beneath me.  OK, that's because I live on the second floor and my apartment straddles both of their units. But still... I think I have mentioned The Gilmore Girls before. I believe they have been here for 15 years. I wasn't sure how old mother Gilmore was. I met them when I moved in last year and, being curious as to who had lived in my place before me, I asked how old the woman was. She had to think about that a bit, and she told me she was the same age as her. I asked what age that was. She thought a bit more. After several long moments, it turned out to be 74. Daughter Gilmore is about 45. When my brother helped me move in here, we both thought something was a little off about her. Somewhere on the spectrum, we figured. She is on disability.  I chat them up whenever I see them. It's usually a disjointed conversation, taking many turns for no obvious reason, and often about their cats. They are not deceptive though. Just different. I was ver...

 I knew it was coming. I hate living on borrowed time. But they wronged me and there had to be a reckoning. Of course I'm talking about cancelling my Amazon Prime. It seems like more and more these days it is getting harder and harder to quit corporate America. My beef with Prime was that they never asked me to renew my subscription. Honestly, I don't recall even signing up in the first place. That's on me for letting that one slip past the goalie by not paying attention. Amazon deliveries were a big help to me when I first moved here and was without wheels. *Free* was a good thing at the time. But when I heard via the media that the annual fee was going up to (I think) $179 a year, I knew I needed to cut that out. But I was getting these emails from a bank that handled the Amazon house card. Fucking emails telling me that I owed them $22. No bills. Emails. They couldn't be bothered to tell me what they were for. I couldn't help but be suspicious even after I realiz...

 Donald Trump didn't lie to me. He tried, but it didn't take. I saw through all his bullshit, probably before he came down the escalator in Trump Tower to announce his disdain for Mexicans. Oh, and he announced his run for the presidency too.  He lied to Maga, the simple-minded, common men and women who aren't as adept at thinking things through as I often am. I've got a pretty good track record of thinking things through- not perfect, mind you- but better than most. I've made some glaring errors in my life. They even have names to remember they by- Laura and Jennifer. I can't kick too much about that because my heart was in the right place at the time. It's in a better place now, because I learn from my mistakes. There are just some people you shouldn't trust, and that's the way it is. The trick is to figure out who those people are and walk away from there. Or run.  Trump was an easy read. There was no spankable bottom obfuscating his being. Of cou...

 Many people are saying that Trump might be- well, like our grandparents are, if you're a boomer. Others think he'll be joining our grandparents soon. (If he crosses my grandfather, he'll meet a man who once faced down a gangster who tried to rob his bank with a tommy gun. That man did not succeed) Whichever, Trump's not going to meet his doctor's 200-year life expectancy prognostication. What a shame.  JD Vance has already come out and said he's ready to step into Trump's shoes. This will make him a couple inches taller. I don't know that maga will accept him- they might except him- but they have to understand that they really have no choice in this matter. Their involvement in all things Trump- while not over- has been kinda downsized. They were needed to get Trump back in The White House. They did that. What they didn't realize was that their mission was to get JD Vance into The White House. NOBODY could have done that on purpose. Nobody. Yep, the...

 I often end each night going down a rabbit hole of YouTube videos. I like the randomness of content. I don't know if it's algorithms or just the chaos of YT itself, but I like the hodge podge aspect of it. I can easily go from comedians like Norm MacDonald to Vietnam documentaries, to carpentry lessons, with those REELS that stop and start with no method to their madness spliced in. There is a lot of good info out there- except for those fucking REELS- and I'm always down for learning something new or confirming my bias on something else. Now, I'm not a subscriber to any channels because I was gifted with a LIFETIME BAN   from subscribing or commenting on YT's, evidently because I *bullied* a couple of gangster-adjacent assholes several years ago, on a thread about the late Frank Cullotta, a Chicago gangster. That's as much as I know about it. One day I got on YT and was informed of the ban- not why it happened- just that it happened and I could contest it if I...

 Is this a bad time to come out against gun control?  This not a not a normal country. It's not   gonna get any better, not with this scumbag pedophile in The White House.  Another school shooting happened today. These have been happening in schools, churches, malls, theaters- everywhere- for the last several decades. It doesn't matter whether there is a good man in The White House or Trump, these atrocities are going to happen. Last year I probably would have agreed with you if you said we should ban the semi-automatic rifles- AR15's and such. However, last year we were a far more normal country with an old, but wizened president with the hope of a younger, stronger woman on the way. Well, we know what happened there. I would have been onboard with a ban on assault rifles. In a normal country, you don't need one. You just don't. This isn't Somalia, Afghanistan or the Middle East. Not yet anyway. For those people, poor leadership, war and killing is a way of lif...