OK- sorry- it was clearly freaking interference and the stupid Cowboys should not have got a break from the stupid ref and the Lions should have won the game and gone on to meet the Packers next week. OK- that is off my chest and I can get on with life. It is sunny and […]

It is a gray day down at the farm, and it was a splendid morning to sleep in, once the matter of the bedside lamp disintegrating in the night was resolved to my satisfaction. Funny how seemingly solid things can just fall apart, isn’t it? On the way down, I stopped at the Nation’s Gun […]

(In the painting, God’s Own Gentleman, Patrick Griffin is shown with his commander, Colonel Randal McGavock, holding the “Sons of Erin” flag during the Battle of Raymond. Courtesy of Jerry McWilliams, SouthernCedarsGallery.com). There is a reason I am going back through the files- I will get to that, presently, but I am looking for the […]

I got off the Metro at Farragut West, and popped out on the street. The Square was nowhere to be seen- did I normally get off at McPherson Square? Disoriented, I made a furtive start to what I thought was the North, then stopped. The Army-Navy Club should be to the east, I thought, and […]

“Eat poor that day, eat rich the rest of the year. Rice for riches and black-eyed peas for peace.” – Southern motto on eating a dish of Hoppin’ John on New Year’s Day. It is the day after New Years Eve. I had a strategy to deal with it. I went out to Fairfax to […]

I saw a clever piece this morning- no, it wasn’t on Brietbart, hahaha- that quite captivated me. It re-cast the year we are about to discard as wild “black swan’ predictions, taking the reality we have come to accept as being just as crazy as it actually was. Charlie Manson getting married? China’s actions in […]

Actually, there are four, but it gets complicated and multi-generational. My pal Mike is driving this morning, and I hope he is safe, and the delivery of his daughter to the major Jet Port is accomplished without untoward incident. He is not the subject of any movies that I am aware of, though the elements […]

 I tried one of those yoga videos after walking yesterday afternoon and it might be working. I don’t know if I was doing the poses properly, but there is definitely something to this thing. I slept like a champ, and that is something very positive. I awoke to a sense of déjà vu- another […]

I mentioned the other day that I can recognize a graveyard spiral when I see one, and the temple of flesh that inhabit was starting to pitch-over, nose and port wing in stall. Which is to say, the damaged leg is still damaged, all extremities arthritic, and my neck has been stiff since Mom and […]

 I had a great Christmas Day, and hope you did as well. The early travel from the City to the Country was a delight on uncontested roads, with middling sunshine and temperatures that soared to near sixty. There was not a lot to open under the tree- no tree- and taken in toto it […]