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• Time Wave Zero

  

  Where did the last 24 months go? Poof. Forever Gone. Time itself has never been more keenly felt than these past two years. Days felt dazed; Time slowing to a crawl, or rapidly dissipating into the ether in a swirling digital mosaic. Very strange times. My mantra for these last two years: “That was a […]

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  March 2, 2022

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  "AIDA -Attention Interest Decision Action", "All train compartments smell vaguely of shit", "I really hope you find your wife", "Please sit down Mr. Kaplan", "That was a little bit of too much eh?", 2020, 2021, 2022, Ahorita, Alex Lifeson, Always Be Closing, Cary Grant, Cinema, Circumstances, Clawing your way back, Cling to Life, Coffee, Coffee overachievers UNITE, Commitment, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Crank it out, Dad, Dame dos botellas, Death, digital dadaism, Discipline, Drones, El Fogonero, Embrace the Suck, Espana, Forgiveness, Frances, From Spain, Fuck, Fuck the naysayers, fucking masks, Geddy Lee, Get a Grip, Glengarry Glen Ross, God, Government Overreach, Grief, Hard Fought, Hardship, Hemispheres, Hold On, Hold Your Fire, Holding on by a thread, insomnia, Is this thing on?, It's only 1:11?, J.T. Walsh, Jam, Laugh, Let's get back to living life, Life, Life Lessons, Loss, Love, Misery, Mom, Mom & Dad, Neil Peart, No fun allowed, North by Northwest, Now, Ordeal, rush, Sacrifice, San Fermin, Show Up, sleep?, Strange times, suck it up buttercup, Suffering, Surrealism, The BIG OOOOOOOOOO!, The Holy Triumverate, The Mighty Zero, The moment of Truth, Time Wave Zero, Two Beers, Two Years, US Armed Forces, USAF, What a joke, What day is it?, What just happened?, What lies ahead?, Where am I?, Where did everybody go?, Where did you go?, Write Off, WTF, You cannot be serious, Zero

• Sideways Sedona

  

  There are times in life when nothing goes right. The universe has its own design and plans. You can do everything right and everything goes wrong. When it happens, you show up and go through it. Are you under the illusion, the path is winding your way? Are you surprised by confusion, when it leads […]

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  July 8, 2021

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  "Excrement Sandwich", "I walked with a Zombie", "Sharks don't attack the Irish", "You never hear the one with your name on it", 2021, Alex Lifeson, Bidenstan, Bite Me Stan, BiteMeStan, Bowfinger, Circle Jerks, Cris Kirkwood, Croooooowwwwww, Curt Kirkwood, Dadaism, Deer, Des-ert!, Do Your Best, Eating Crow, Eddie Murphy, EJECT! EJECT! EJECT!, Emilio Estevez, Fu-Tile, Fuck, Futile, Geddy Lee, Ghost Rider, Go For It!, Gordon Downie, Grind, Haha…I'll show YOU, Henry Rollins, Howard Hughes, I Foley’d It, Inhale Exhale, Jim James, Joel Robinson, June 2021, Keep it Together, KIT, Kit Carson, Leave it all on the ice, Leave it all on the stage, Let it go, Life Lessons, Mars, Meat Puppets, Mi Mama, Mi Papa, Mike, MMJ, Montezuma's Revenge, MST3K, My Morning Jacket, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Neil Peart, Nuestra Familia, Oh you mean bite me?, play guitar, Play the Blues, President Jose Biden, Punk Rock, Put in more than you can ever get out, Repo Man, Riding the storm out, Rory Erickson, rush, R~, Sedona, Slowdona, Spun, Steve Martin, Surrealism, The desert don't care, The HIP, The Holy Triumvirate, The Professor, The Shits, The Stars Look Down, THINKFAST!!, Time will do its healing, Tom Servo, Too Real, Tough Lessons, Vapor Trails, Weird Hues, What the fuck, When the shit hits the Fan, Zombified

• 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, […]

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  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

• Half The World

  

  Where are we now? Living through a once in a century pandemic. For some, it’s been the best of times, and for many more others… the worst of times. Divides are growing literally ever wider between us as social distancing and shutdowns persist to combat the Novel Coronavirus. Politically our divides have never been wider, […]

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  November 17, 2020

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  #45, "Stealing Away", 2020 Sucks, Afsaneh Oroojnia, Ah Fuck It, AJ, Banana Republic, Biden ain't my POTUS, Bite Me, Bogus, Bogus Election, Brainwash, Bullshit, By-Tor And The Snow Dog, Bytor and the Snowdog, Circle Jerks, Come Together, Contagion, COVID-19, Dirk, Divided America, Divided States of America, Election Hijacking, Enemies in our midst, Fake Election, Fake Impeachment, Fake News, Fake Republic, Fog, Fox News Fake, Fraud, Fuck the Media, Global Pandemic, Hacked Election, Half the World, Hello?, Henry Purcell, How's that working for you?, JAFO, Larceny, Lee – Lifeson – Peart, Lerxst, Masks, Neil Peart, Oh you mean bite me?, Once in a Century Pandemic, Pathogens, PLUGS, Politics, Pratt, President Donald J. Trump, President Who?, Reach The Other Half, rush, Sick Media, Social Distancing, T4E, Tear it Up, Test For Echo, The Professor, USA, Visual Art, When the shit hits the Fan, When Two Worlds Meet, Why Vote?, Work, Zero Sum

• Stepping it up…Sucking it up…Sticking it out

  

  2020 continues throwing us lots of shapes. As this most unusual year continues grinding on, more shapes are forthcoming. In light of a once in a century pandemic, most of the USA has absorbed, adapted and adjusted to a new reality. Humans adapt. We’ve all had to step it up in our lives – We […]

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  August 30, 2020

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  Abraham Lincoln, Anti-Conformity, Antifa Fucks, Bad Actors, Benjamin Franklin, Bullshit, Bust Ass, Civil War, Complainers, Coronavirus, Counterparts, COVID-19, Criminals, Domestic Terrorism, Don’t Tread On Me, Double Down, Eminence Front, Endurance, Enemies in our midst, Enemies Within, Facade, Fifth Column, General Election 2020, George Washington, Get Off My Lawn, God’s Country, Hard Work, Indivisible, Law and Order, Looters, Losers, Low Lifes, MAGA, Make America Great Again, Marathon, Militias, Mob Mentality, Neer Do Wells, Neil Part, Neil Peart, Old Glory, One Nation, Pandemic, Patriot, Patriots, President Donald J. Trump, Pussies, Rioters, Riots, Run with the Crowd, rush, Stamina, Stick it Out, The Who, Thomas Jefferson, Trojan Horse, Under God, USA, Vice President Joe Biden, We Support our Law Enforcement, We Support our Police, We will defeat you, We will not submit, With Liberty and Justice for all, Work

• 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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  July 27, 2020

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  23 beers, 4th of July, AA, American Militia, Anarchy in the USA, Android, Arizona, Bills, Chinese Virus, Commitment, Cornoavirus, COVID-19, Discipline, Disconnect, Double A, Exercise, Fucking Telephones, General Election 2020, God, Hard Work, He Double Gobbled, Headphones, Hiking, Home Cooking, Hot out there, I Foley’d It, I googled it, Independence Day, iPhone, Jams!, Khruangbin, Law and Order, Lockdowns, Long Plays, Lord Jesus Christ, LP’s, Mezcal Quarantine, Music, My Old Flame, New Discoveries, New Horizons, Oh you mean bite me?, Prayer, President Donald J. Trump, Reading, Reconnect, Records, rush, Smartphone, Social Distancing, Spike Jones, Spike Jonz, Summer of 2020, Summertime Blues, USA, Vice President Joe Biden, Vinyl, We Support our Police, Writing

• 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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  April 28, 2020

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  #staythefuckhome, …just a bump…or two…, Aliens, Ambient, April Beer, April Booze, April Gin, April Hooch, April Mezcal, April Wine, Avoid Crowds, Avoid the Hordes, Away, Be Prepared, Bigfoot, Bird Box, Bring Lots of Water, Cheap Sunglasses, Coconino National Forest, coke, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Disappear, Dogie Trail, Done Did The Dogie, Earn it, Earn that motherfucker, Eerie Hikes, El Sol, Empty bottle of Canadian Whiskey, Endurance, Entities, Flask it Babycakes, Float, Freak Yourself Out, Freaks, Get Lost, Ghosts, Hallucinatory, Hooch for the Trail Yes-Sir, in the moment, In the Zone, Is someone there?, Is that a?, Is that the way?, Is there something back there?, It Follows, Just a Nip, Kooks, Languid, Legend, Listen to music, Look At Me!, Losing It, Low and Slow, Melt Down, Mezcal, Mezcal Quarantine, Mind Tricks, Mood Lifter, Moving Pictures, Myth, Nature, Neil Peart, Off the Beaten Path, Pack a Lunch, Pandemic Dreams, Psychic, Push Yourself, Reverse Polarity, Rod Serling, rush, Russ Ballard, Sasquatch, Secret Government Bases, Secret Wilderness, Sedona, Sense of Direction, Shape Shifters, Skin Walkers, Slowdona, Smooth Sailing, Social Distancing, Something else is here, Speeding!, Spirits, Spooky, Spooky Silence, Stick it Out, Surreal Days, Sycamore Canyon, The Black Crowes, The Blair Witch Project, The Hills Have Eyes, The sounds of the world, Top Shelf, Trance, Transport, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Trip, Twilight Zone, UFO’s, Underground Tunnels, Undisturbed, Up on the Sun, Vital Signs, voices – i hear voices, Vortex, Walk believer walk, Wander Off, Wash-Your-HANDS, Weirdos, What was That?, White Lady, White Sands, Who Knows?, Ya Wanna Freak Out, Yay Yo, Zen, Zen Hiking, ZZ Top

• 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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  January 18, 2020

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  7, Abandon Ship, Analyze, Animal, Another bite of the apple, Arizona, Atomic Habits, Axl Rose, Bad Habits, Bail, Bail it, Beers, Begin, Begin Again, Climb, Climbing, Cold Fire, Colorado, Commitment, Crank It, Dead End Government Jobs, Dead End Jobs, Deny, Deny Yourself, Desert, Desert Sands, Dig Out, Discipline, Down in a Hole, Evolve, Examine, Existence, Expand, Experience, Eyedropper, Fearless, Fight, Focus, Fuck, G n’ R, Get into something new!, Ghost of a Chance, Ghost Rider, Go Away, Go For It!, Good Habits, Great Sand Dunes, Ground Zero, Guns N’ Rose, Habit, Habits, Habituations, Halfway there, Henry Rollins, Here’s your hole, High Time, Integrity, It’s cool to be so tough, It’s tough to be so cool, James Clear, Kid Gloves, Kill, Let the chips fall, Life is short, Locomotive, Locomotive (Complicity), Long Haul, Make it Happen, May as well go for it, Meat Puppets, Mindfulness, More than Halfway There, Neil Peart, Never look back, No U-Turn, Nothing begets nothing, Or run away, Phoenix, Phoenix rising from the ashes, Pink Floyd, Play a bad hand well, Precious Time, Pull the ejection handles!, Push comes to shove, Real Estate, Renew, Renewal, Reset, Reset your life, Resilient, Ride that Rockin’ Chair, Roll the Bones, Rollins Band, Run Away, Run Like Hell, rush, Sabbatical, Say Goodbye, Se7en, Sedona, Self Aware, Seven, Stan Ridgway, Start over, Take a chance, Take a Sabbatical, Take Another Shot, Take it on the chin, Take the hit, Take your licks, Tenancious, The Void, Time, Uphill, Use Your Illusion, Void, Walk Away, What the fuck, When push comes to shove, Wilderness, Wilderness Days, Wilderness Years, Years, Years and Beers, Zero

• 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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  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

• 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

• Hit The Bricks

  

  We who live in the Southwestern United States are blessed with an abundance of spoils in our Natural Wonders. As an Arizonan ensconced in Sedona, our location offers access to countless historical and breathtaking National Parks and Monuments. As of this writing (January 2019,) many National Parks and Monuments are sure to be impacted negatively […]

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  January 6, 2019

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