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Quarantine Spotlight: The Hot Spot
Ripe for a Quarantine Viewing, here is a hidden cinematic gem turning 30 years old in 2020. Released in 1990, The Hot Spot features a fantastic cast of actors in their prime. This is a sexy, atmospheric tale, and the movie has aged very well, thanks to Dennis Hopper‘s restrained and timeless direction. The Hot […]
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Done Did The Dogie
Hallucinatory dreams of Sedona covered in 2′ to 3′ feet of a white sand storm…Reveille at 0400. Fu(e)el UP 0500. “Hit them streets a running” 0600. Do the Dogie 0700. Solitary hiking = Great Medicine. As the late great Rush drummer & lyricist Neil Peart wrote, “Everybody need a Mood Lifter…Everybody needs reverse polarity.” Ain’t […]
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RESET
Read Time: 2 minutes, 23 seconds. Renew ~ Evolve ~ Start Over ~ Expand ~ Take a Chance re-set: 1. To set again or anew. 2. To change the reading of often to zero. Everyone deserves a sabbatical, time away from the usual to bring about a Reset in your life. Time to undo bad habits and begin new and […]
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Time Stand Still
Reading Time: 1 minute, 7 seconds. I’m not looking back but I want to look around me now…See more of the people and the places that surround me now. ~ Rush, Time Stand Still ~ 1987 Having begun my 51st year in 2019, time grows ever more precious for this writer. Steve Jobs once intoned, “Time is […]
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Hey Man, I’m a real machine.
Read Time: 2 minutes, 20 seconds. Some people talk too much. This writer included. Nearing a new decade in 2020 there seems to be excessive noise everywhere. A lot of souls, bots and spammers are striving to be heard above the din. We all want to be heard, yes? Social Media has compounded and amplified […]
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The Lighthouse
Read Time: 2 minutes, 17 seconds. You said I shouldn’t have gone I don’t know I went ahead on anyway Night time wore to dawn I found my free will had gone away from me Behind the masks that pass for faces Hours are lost in forbidden places -Meat Puppets, Forbidden Places Whew, now here […]
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An ode to early morning strolls…
Reveille The rooster crows…Reveille…Rise ‘n Shine. During a trying period 3 years ago, early morning walks became a refuge, a form of salvation habituation. Rising in the darkness and striking out into it sharpens all your senses. Alone with your thoughts in the pre-dawn, a clarity reveals itself. 311 Stealing Happy Hours Adrenaline surges as […]
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The Hoax
Read Time: 1 minute, 37 seconds. With all the talk on our national stage about hoaxes and fake news, Johnnyo ~ Hideaway spotlights a true 20th Century Hoax worth viewing in a very entertaining movie: The Hoax (2006) unspools a crooked tale of one American Novelist, Clifford Irving, who in the early 1970’s fooled and […]
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Cold Showers.
Read Time: 53 Seconds. There is no better wake-up call than a cold shower. Forget coffee. This writer stumbled upon “cold shower therapy” a few years ago. Mr. Joel Runyon’s Tedx talk convinced me to give it a go, at least for 30 days. 30 days turned into a whole year of cold showers. As Mr. […]
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Hideaway(s)…
Read Time: 1 minute, 47 seconds. Been hiding out and laying low, it’s nothing new to me…well you can always find a place to go ~ if you can keep your sanity. -Guns N’ Roses, Out Ta Get Me, 1987 Sometimes in life you reach your limit, need a reprieve and gotta get away to […]
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50 Years? 50 Beers!
Read Time: 2 minutes, 41 seconds. Perhaps Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets exclaimed it best when he wrote and crooned, “Each year is a minute only full of the leaves in it.” Leaves Or as a colleague and great friend once remarked while working at a Phoenician Charles Schwab call center in the mid […]
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Get Lost…and Found.
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