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Let Bygones be Bygones

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The finality of it all. “At the end of the game, there’s only death.” Wow is that a downer! I said that to some one recently, as we discussed unfinished life moments. The person looked at me like I was crazy, presumptuous, perhaps arrogant. Maybe I’m […]

Jesus and the NSA

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Jesus listening to my thoughts like a spy working for the NSA. I’m visiting my best friend’s mother in our home town. I’m in the living room of a woman who was like a 2nd mom. She is in her late 70’s. This woman is a […]

Hey Fred You’re Next

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Crazy Fred! It’s 9 am on a Saturday morning. I am scheduled to pick up a car at Enterprise Rental Car for my drive to Carmel. I’m picking up the car in sleepy Camarillo, a city north of L.A. The doors open at 9 am. I […]

All Aboard II

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The romance of the train. Is it romantic? You be the judge I’m riding an Amtrak Train from San Diego to Ventura County. So far the station leaves much to be desired. It is little more than a concrete and wood refrigerator box with no protection, […]

All Aboard

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Taking the train. It’s romantic. It’s Nostalgic. It’s how America was forged from Atlantic to Pacific. When I think of the train, I think of immigrants toiling in the blistering sun of the new American West laying down tracks, dying where they work so that some […]

Way Cool Jr.

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Way cool Jr. “Way Cool Jr.” is Ratt Song. No, not a song sung by a rat, but a song sung by an 80’s glam rock group that smoked enough “rope” to name themselves Ratt. Ratt? Only in rock and roll would you name yourself after […]

Jack & Coke

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Jack and Coke on an empty stomach. It’s like flying a kite in a hurricane. It’s like skate boarding over land mines.  It’s like throwing darts with a blind man. My best buddy in California picks me up at 1 pm at the San Diego Airport. […]

Dolphin Day

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Boating with Dolphins! Ocean fish are prehistoric monsters that have not changed in millions of years. Bulging eyes, scaly bodies, bony exoskeletons. When Hollywood is thinking new movie monster, you have no farther to look than the mighty ocean for inspiration. Then there is the dolphin. […]

Jabba the Hut

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Jabba the Hut. After a lengthy ordeal of security check points and xray machines, I am finally situated. My bags are stowed above me. My seat belt is fastened low and securely across my lap. My tray table is in its full and locked position. I’m […]

Airport Angst 2

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The absurdity of the TSA. They are burger flippers with badges, inept as the Mexican Navy, worthless like turkey stuffing the day after thanksgiving. I have just wasted a good portion of my Saturday morning waiting in a line so that a TSA moron on a […]