Tag: Family

• Good Grief

  

  How’s that working out for you? Mourning…grieving. Sadly, in 2022 grief more than ever has become an everyday thing, what with all the goings on in the world from the lingering pandemic hanging on by the fangs, cultural decline, War in Eastern Europe, to the evermore frequent, horrific mass shooting murders in mainstream USA. To […]

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  June 9, 2022

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  "I really hope you find your wife", 311, All Things Must Pass, Bad Times, Being Together, Bereavement, Beyond the Grey Sky, Black, Blue Oyster Cult, BOC, Breakdown, Bummer, Charlie Brown, Circle The Wagons, COVID-19, Dark Clouds, Death, Dying, Family, Family is Everything, Father's Day 2022, Father’s Day, Fighting bulls is serious business, Final Moments, George Harrison, Glengarry Glen Ross, Global Pandemic, Good Grief, Good Times, Grey, Grief, Healing, Hope, I'm talking about The Dude here, I'm the Dude!, Intimacy, J.T. Walsh, Jeffrey Lebowski, Jim James, Keep Shelly in Athens, La Corrida de Toros, Laughter, Life, Life is Precious, Life is short, Love, Matador, Mourning, Pandemic, Picking up the Pieces, Pisser, QOTSA, Queens of the Stone Age, San Fermin, San Fermin 2022, Shadow of Death, Shroud, Spin Out, Storm Clouds, Sunrise, Sunset, The Big Lebowski, The Dude, The Grim Reaper, The moment of Truth, The Shits, Time, Toro!, USA, Widespread Panic, Will You Go To Lunch

• Digital Dadaism (aka Phoneistan)

  

  Take a look around you, or look up from your phone…do you see (as the late great Tom Petty proclaimed on his final album release), the “Hypnotic Eye?” Damn near every hominid in the western world has been overtaken by the ubiquitous so-called smart phone. Flat out in this digital dadaist age. It’s so sick. […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  March 13, 2022

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  311, 311 Day 2022, 3rd Eye, AI, Analog, Apple, Arizona, Artificial Inteligence, Attention, Bidenstan, Clouds, coke, Conversation, COVID, COVID-19, Crackberry, Dada, Death, Decorum, Digital Age, digital dadaism, Discipline, dodo, Dopamine, Etiquette, Excuse Me?, Family, Fully Completely, Get outside, God, Her, Hiking, Hypnotic Eye, I ain't bored I got my phone, Information Age, iPhone, JL, Joaquin Phoenix, JZ, Keyboard Economy, Kindness, Life, Life is short, Love, Manners, Maynard James Keenan, Meat Puppets, Metaverse, My phone!, Nature, Politeness, Put that away!, Read a book, Real Life, Reality, Robocalls, Sedona, Self Control, Self Governorship, Slot Machine, Slots, Slowdona haha, smart phone, Smartphone, Smartphone Addiction, Steve Jobs, Sundays, Surrealism, The HIP, The Tragically Hip, There’s Always An Excuse, Third Eye, Tom Petty, Tool, Tourists, Vino, Where is my phone?, You cannot be serious

• Let’s turn the page, shall we?

  

  A new world has spun all around us…spinning like a spider web. We’re all feeling spun. In less than a year’s time everything has changed. Were we complacent before – how good we had it? Yes. God put us on notice. So many pastimes are bygones. What’s in, What’s out?: In: Masks, Fear, Anxiety, Avoidance, […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  December 17, 2020

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  #staythefuckhome, 2020 Sucks, 2021, 5th Column, Banana Republic, Big Tech, Booze, Bygones, CCP, China, Chinese Virus, Comply, Cover Up, COVID-19, Death & Taxes, Don't let your guard down, Don't turn your back, Don’t go there bud, Don’t trust China, Dr. Birx, Drain The Swamp, Drink!, El Futuro, El Pasado, End of an Era, Enemies in our midst, Eyedropper, Fake Election, Fake News, Family, FEAR, Fraud, Give More, God, God is Great, Greatest Generation, Happy New Year, Hoax, Hold Your Fire, Hope, Hospital, Humor, I didn't get an eydropper, ICU, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ is King, Keep it Together, Laugh, Liberty, Lockdowns, Love, Masks, Meltdown, Merry Christmas, Merry X-mas, MST3K, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Neil Peart, Operation Warp Speed, Pastimes, Pathogen, Pestilence, Plague, President Trump, President-elect Biden, rush, Santa Claus, Secret Touch, Show Up, Sick Society, Social Distancing, Social Media, Social Media is Bullshit, Spanish Flu, Stan Ridgway, Surge, TAXES, Thanks for the Crumbs, That's all Folks!, The Truth Hurts, Thing's that I used to do, Tooth Fairy, Turn the Page, US Constitution, Vaccines, Vapor Trails, Virus, Wall of Voodoo, We don't do that anymore, Work, WOV, Wuhan

• 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 […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  January 1, 2020

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  10 beers, 10 years, 2020, Afterlife, Ahora, Ahorita, Apple, Beck, Beers, Begin Again, Christmastime, Chronos, City of Light, Cosmos, Creator, Decada, Decade, Destiny, Earth, Everything Counts, Family, Fate, Father Time, Feliz Ano Nuevo, Fidelity, Flagstaff, France, Gargoyles, Go For It!, Goal, Goals, God, Happy New Year, Happy New Year 2020, Health, Heaven, Hiking, Hold Your Fire, IMAX, Joy, Laughter, Life, Love, Make it Happen, Neil Peart, New Beginnings, New Year’s Day, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Resolution, New Year’s Resolutions, No Coincidence, No Coincidences, No going back, No time like the present, Nothing changes on new year’s day, Now, Now is what counts, Oblivion, Ocean, Oceans, Outerspace, Paris, Peace, Point of no return, Prosperity, Reboot, Recommit, Renewal, Reset, Ron Fricke, rush, Seasons Greetings, Sedona, Simple Pleasures, Slowing Down, Specks of dust, Stars, Start over, Starting Over, Steve Jobs, Stratosphere, Sunset Crater, The Moon, The Sea, The Sun, The Unknown, The Void, Time, Time is Money, Time Stand Still, Time waits for no one, Togetherness, Truth, U2, Universe, Year, Years, Yesterday Poof, Zero, Zeros

• 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 […]

  Johnny ~O~ Hideaway

  September 7, 2019

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  311, 311 Space and Time, 3rd Eye, Arizona, Arizona Skies, Attention Span, Axl Rose, Back to the earth, Blue Skies, Buy, Camping, Check Out, Circles, Climb the mountain, Consume, Consumer, Curt Kirkwood, Desert, Desert Southwest, Despacio, Dick’s Hideaway, Digital Domain, Digital World, Dining, Disappear, Earth, Enjoy Life, Family, Friends, Fun, G n’ R, Get Away, Get Lost, Go Outside, God, Guns N’ Roses, Hideaway, Hiking, Howard Hughes, I Foley’d It, Iggy Pop, in the moment, Joshua Homme, Leave your phone behind, Life, Marketing, Mental Health, Mindfulness, New Beginnings, Nick Hexum, Notifications, Outside, Phoenix, Positivity, Presence, Promotions, QOTSA, Queens of the Stone Age, Real World, Recluse, Reclusive, Refuge, Rejuvenation, Renewal, Retreat, Richardson Browne, Richardson’s New Mexican Cuisine, Screens, Sell, Slow Down, Slow Movement, Slowdona, Smartphone Addiction, Social Media, Solar System, Starting Over, Stay Positive and Love your Life, Sun, The Great Outdoors, The HIP, The Last Recluse, The Matrix, The Tragically Hip, Them Crooked Vultures, Third Eye, Time, Time Suck, Turn off Notifications, Vacation, Valley of the Sun, Virtual World, Vistas, Walkin’ Boss, Wander, Wandering

• 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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  August 17, 2019

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  50 Beers, 50 Years, 99 Bottles of Beer, A-10, AARP, Airman First Class, AJ’s Market, Arizona, Austin, Beer, Big 5-O, Billy F. Gibbons, Blue Velvet, Brahma, Brasil, Brazil, Cannonball, Capitol Grille, Cava, Charles Schwab & Co, Christ the Redeemer, Coffee, Coors, Corcovado, Curt Kirkwood, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Del Maguey Mescal, Dennis Hopper, DMAFB, Dusty Hill, Family, Flagstaff, Frank Beard, Great Friends, Henry Rollins, Houston, Hurricane Alicia, Jack Nicholson, Joshua Tree National Park, La Choulette, Love, Make that a Double, Meat Puppets, Mojo Nixon, More than Halfway There, Myth, Mythology, Navy, Negra Modelo, Neil Peart, Patron, Phoenix, Pietra Wexstun, Rio De Janiero, rush, Samuel Adams, Schlitz, Scotch & Soda, Scottsdale, Sedona, Segura Viuduas, Shiner Bock, Sparkling Wine, St. Bernardus, Stan Ridgway, Stan Ridway & Drywall, Surf & Turf, Tank Killer, Ten Beers, Texas, The AARP Is After Me, The Drywall Incident, The Last Detail, The Rokerij, The Top, Tucson, United States Air Force, US Armed Forces, USAF, Vino, Warthog, White Sands National Monument, Wine & Dine, ZZ Top, ZZ Top Eliminator