Another installment of "microphone therapy"    My minor musings on all things irrelevant.   

Do we have memories that precede us?   A nightmare in Florence and a massacre in New Orleans  

We kneel before God.  But stand before the flag... or else suffer the wrath of the PVP.  

In Omarosa I trust....

Row, row, row your boat gently down... my stream of consciousness

Fire! My apt nearly burns down.   Live to podcast the tale.   

Age is just a number....NOT

Tales from Tarzana

Is the Electoral College part of Trump University?

Captains of conspiracy and why folks dig them.....

Nuclear winter over the High Sierras 

Reflections on A Rebel Without a Cause the Nicholas Ray movie w/ James Dean….

Why do I podcast?   Microphone as therapy.   

Two movies worth revisiting…  Frank Capra’s “Meet John Doe”  and Elia Kazan’s “A Face in the Crowd.”

150th Anniversary of the 14th Amendment and why it matters

Malibu, the best fried chicken in L.A, and jazz jamming at the World Stage

The tail wags the dog!.... The Green Eyed Gangster stuck in his "terrible two's" takes on Iran...   

Who was Mossadegh?  What happened in 1952? 

Tribalism vs. Nationalism watch "Lawrence of Arabia"    

The inner meaning of "great"

Time for an upgrade?  The U.S. Constitution"    

"The Lives of three people don't amount to a hill of beans..... Bogard in Casablanca.

Hell fire in Helsinki!!!  The PVP kisses the ring of his handler.    

The truth and all its’ horrors… hiding in plain sight   the picture is there, the mystery is gone…. 

My short story shared… “The Bitumen Boss of Uzbekistan”

Sometimes we need a little fiction to find the facts…

The globe is not warming and the earth is flat.  

Leaf blower’s on my mind.    My take on the Latino invisibles that make our world run.   

The PVP prepping to meet his handler in Helsinki.   From whence did the billionaire brat boy emerge?   How did he get here?    

When you worship false idols, you get false gods……i.e. Celebrity.    

Refections on W.E. Dubois “Black Reconstruction in America” and the unfulfilled promise….

The PVP (Putin's Vice President) nominates a wolf in sheep's clothing to the Supreme Court.   But no one can get focused until LeBron decides where he's going next season.

Ruminations on the "selbstmord" of Anthony Bourdain....there's a lot of mystery in the dark places.   

My misadventures w/ Sony Tri Star trying to get my adaptation of David Halberstam's "The Children" to the screen... any screen big or small

Warts, hiccups and all, this is my inaugural offering in the land of Pod.   Doing my best to break it down truth-wise and irony-wise.    

Am kicking around the backwaters of my brain and hopefully I'll shed a little light into yours.