Tag: Sedona

• 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. […]

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  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

• 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

• 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