Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Just thinking it's interesting these days that news of seeming importance on first blush, in the onslaught of important following news just fades into oblivion, not solved nor resolved nor answered for; no longer important. It's like viewing an endless stream of trailers but they never make the movie. We all can think up plenty from the past month. Or can we? The question is have they become less important, less important relative to the new thing which soon will be replaced in our minds, or were they never important? Is importance a passing fancy? Do we really need to be titillated by any of it and if not, why do we embrace the farce?

Maybe we just never tire of fetching the stick.

Monday, October 09, 2017

Amen

Regarding the genuflecting football players, I don't see where lies the disrespect. Having been raised Catholic, I've always known that to be an act not only of respect but worship. If there is offense it might be found in the appropriating of it for the NFL which should be worshiped legs up on a couch with a fistful of pretzels and a can of Schlitz.

As far as the national anthem is concerned, we're supposed to worship that with human sacrifice. And we do. I just fail to see how any of this is unpatriotic. Perhaps inquiring minds should be wondering why Americans are inundated in patriotic songs at every televised sports event. Will an even greater sacrifice soon be required of us?

Thursday, October 05, 2017

last excerpt from Last Opus

...We don't kill defenseless women and children, do we Jim? Do we?' HIs hands are shaking.
Again Jim orders him back on course, cocking his gun. An infinite calm pervades the pilot like a balmy breeze through the soul of a man with no doubts, who knows for the first time what he must do. He refuses again and the co-pilot shoots him in the chest.and the mission is back on and the pattern continues - governments resolving their differences by killing each others' tax payers. On an ever grander scale.
'Who'd have guessed Paul for a traitor?' the co-pilot says to one of the crew as Hiroshima comes into range."
"He's not a traitor," Doreen Rampi yelled.
"He is so," yelled Ronnie, "and I'm glad he got shot.".....

Wednesday, October 04, 2017

continued from previous episode -

And then the line went dead and suppose he got mulling over that last call and as the plane approached Japan a greater allegiance started disturbing him – an allegiance to all of mankind, an allegiance to his parents who raised him to be kind. An allegiance to God who surely had not sanctioned such horror borne into the sky and who likely would damn him to Hell for releasing it. Maybe he would get thinking about the insidious insanity of war and how, once begun it is infectious, leading more and more people into insane, immoral acts. And suppose he realizes that if dropping this bomb on these people is what it takes to reach a goal, then that goal must not be reached. And then he knows that no president and no government has the right to ask any one man to wipe out a city of families.”
“But didn't that end the war and save lots of Americans?” Doreen Rampi asked.
“If we're trading the lives of Japanese civilians for American soldiers, then shouldn't the man making that decision be the one to do it? Wouldn't that be the manly way? If Harry Truman thinks... ..to be continued

Monday, October 02, 2017

For a good time...

October schedule for Defiant Worm Books, starring Tom Levine


7 -8 - Vero Beach Riverside Park Art & Craft Show

13 -15 - St. Augustine Greek festival

21-22 - Thornebrook Art Show, Gainesville

27-29 - Johns Pass Seafood Festival