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Disconnections & Reconnections
During this pandemic, reconnections have been made. Especially with those old past times which fell by the wayside. The simple things. Reconnecting with an old friend (and Lover) from a distant era. Hanging with a friend. Reconnecting with our families – sharing meaningful time and laughs together. Listening to old records (albums!) through headphones. Knowing…
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Escape From New York
In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent. The once great city of New York becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country. A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline, across the Harlem River, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline. It completely surrounds Manhattan…
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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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